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[–] 83 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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    This is mind numbingly dumb. For this to be true, there would need to be active drone swarms over the Russian positions at like all times. Not just in the contested zone, but the actual outposts that they deploy from.

    So somehow these drone swarms are so effective that they die within 30 minutes, yet the bases still stand? Why would Ukraine simply not walk to Crimea if this was true? The war would be over!

    Who was he saying this to? I wanna know what group he thinks is morons.

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  • [–] 67 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    As a German, this is great news! That means we don't have to increase military spending, right? anakin-padme-2 If the barbaric Russian hordes are getting decimated, we have nothing to worry about!

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  • [+] 62 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 41 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    They're weak and doomed to fail and on the verge of collapse, but they also pose an existential threat. If we stop funding the war and pull out, they're gonna invade us and it's gonna be like 1987 and Animal Farm.

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  • [–] 61 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    The lowest claimed lifespan I've seen for Stalingrad was 24 hours. Aside from it being a hard thing to calculate, they're meaning to tell me the entire warfront is that much more dangerous than the battle that leveled a city and had brutal room-to-room fighting throughout? This is as absurd at the claimed death-tolls of protesters in Iran.

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    [–] 56 points 2 months ago (10 children)

    If this utter nonsense were true then Ukraine would be taking massive amounts of territory.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    Got any good write up of the current state of the war? According to that thread crimea is under siege and Russia is basically reduced to a single oblast.

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  • [–] 43 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Zelensky just fired the defense minister, something that famously happens when things are going very well and you don't need to switch strategies.

    On the ground it is the same as ever, Russia makes extremely slow territorial gains while grinding away. Losses on the Ukraine side are slightly higher than losses on the Russian side but they're pretty close to even and comparable in my opinion which explains the extremely slow progress. Ukraine has recently managed to hit some targets inside Russia that produced big spectacular visuals so pro-Ukrainian social media has recently been invigorated into believing Ukraine is winning again. But the situation on the ground is mainly the same, Russia grinding them down very slowly.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    to be fair, that defense minister was actively preventing steiner from counterattacking. we should see some REAL action now!

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I don't think that's true. I think Fedorov and Syrsky clashed because Fedorov wanted Syrsky to make another attempt at an offensive on Crimea (stupid idea, very doomed) and Syrsky was saying no.

    Fedorov's deep strikes into Russia have produced some spectacular propaganda but has it actually improved their war position at all? No, I don't think it has. So he's been thrown out and someone with a more traditional approach is coming in.

    What this probably means is that the deep drone strikes are going to stop and the resources going to them will start appearing on the frontlines again. That's not going to enable an offensive though.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    This might be a good start, but I have not yet listened to it myself: https://hexbear.net/comment/7314195

    The Events in Ukraine guy is always interesting, unfortunately the newsletter is paywalled. You can get couple of paragraphs for free though.

    Simplicius publishes regular news summaries/commentary, many of which are not behind a paywall. These are not overviews but are written with some eye towards the bigger picture. I don't know of anyone writing full overviews.

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  • [–] 54 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Cause if you think about that statement for a few seconds, it is unclear what it is even saying. 30 minutes in Ukraine? By what definition of Ukraine borders? The international ones? No matter how bad it is, that seems impossible. The Russian ones? Well, yes. Being behind the front lines is hella dangerous. Not sure how they would even get there. The de-facto controlled Ukraine territory? In that case, you are just saying soldiers that charge Ukraine defenses tend to die, which duh.

    Hats off to Wittgenstein in that thread.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 months ago

    Last, meaning survival, or all their atoms forming one body, or staying erect but not orgasming?

    30 minutes? as in, half an hour of time, or half of a degree of an angle?

    biden-megamind

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  • [–] 52 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    it's wild how they obviously have little regard for the critical thinking skills of their audience
    but looking at the linked thread it seems they are correct to lol


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  • [–] 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Dogs have better critical thinking skills than most of the people in that thread. If you tease a dog, they'll catch on after a few times. These people put Goldfish to shame in their absolute inability to sniff out propaganda, even when the propaganda is literally labeled with a giant glowing "THIS IS PROPAGANDA" sign.

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  • [–] 50 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Hah even some of the .worlders are not buying it

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  • [–] 50 points 2 months ago

    That thread is infuriating. Some guy does basic napkin math and gets down voted because they dare discount the CIA.

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  • [–] 50 points 2 months ago

    Oh yeah. If they keep up with the current speed, they might make it by ~2150 or so. Assuming they don’t run out of fuel in the meantime…

    Russia will run out of fuel but Ukraine has unlimited resources apparently

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  • [–] 47 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    What is even “Russia” at this point.

    They should just split the countries into smaller territories and call it a day.

    lol they never met a nation they didn't try to balkanize

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    His “decolonized” Russia and China maps are hilarious. Neolib imperialism wants to Yugoslavia (Balkanize) or Libya (immiserate) the whole world so their precious capital can flow in. That being said, I have a proposed map for Germany:

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  • [–] 43 points 2 months ago*

    What’s the average life expectancy for a US politician in a Ukrainian weapons factory?

    Pretty funny comment from a dot worlder though

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  • [–] 43 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    they sell pills for that at the gas station

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  • [–] 41 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    Warhammer 40000 lore stated that average imperial guardsman life expectancy on battlefield is 15 hours, and this is considered a meme based on books PoV being in really shit situations like being in the middle of tyranid invasion.

    CIA propaganda is worse than grimdark meme.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 months ago

    this is obvious nato copium but it reminds me of the stats we're told about the US invading viet nam and i never had the methodology behind that statistic explained to me.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    brainworm levels off the charts, can you even call them bainworms when it's just a writhing mass of worms without a brain?

    yeah the conservative establishment democrats love Russia, they totally weren't the ones pushing the so far right it may as well be john birch society bullshit Russiagate conspiracy theory to excuse Hillary's loss

    anyone in the wold being this stupid makes me want to kill myself

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Is that stargate screen meant to represent Cato holding a fig? I'm not following.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    He's afraid of citrus, and in that scene the guy is showing him a lemon to get him to do his bidding.

    I think they are meaning to show that "this would be another Afghanistan", but the context of that scene makes it seem like Afghanistan is manipulating the USA into annexing Russia for their own ends? I dunno it's confusing.

    Maybe Afghanistan is the lemon? And they're saying the USA is afraid of another Afghanistan and won't annex Russia?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago

    I'm honestly baffled by this. This is just so overtly Hitlerite. With the gal of this motherfucker to call others "conservative" too, by brother in christ you are the fascist. At least everyone else was clowning on him but like good god

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