So, a part of me immediately went "who is this idiot" and it turns out that after 11 years of writing for the foreign policy section of BILD, the shittiest and most reactionary news outlet of the way too many shitty and reactionary news outlets of the Axel Springer publishing house, Julian Röpcke recently switched to a new career track.

Instead of being a jingoistic mouthpiece for the most unwavering bastion of right wing zionism and imperial lackeydom in Germany, he is now working for, you're not gonna believe this, a German-Ukrainian drone manufacturer.

So i need to put on my contrarian cap here, i don't think this guy is actually this bad at tactics, not when he has mastered tactical grifting to such a degree. He is doing what he has done for a decade, intentionally disseminating the dumbest shit imaginable to the dumbest reactionaries you can imagine.

The classic Russian WWII tactic, killing Nazis. 🤣

Rumor has it Russia discovered an ancient cheating manual called The Art of War

Unrelated, but I'm always insanely irritated when I see westerners using Vlad as diminutive from Vladimir. If you are going to use diminutives, use the correct ones!

Flanking and surrounding your enemy is literally the oldest trick in the book, shit flanking maneuvers are literally older than the concept of writing.

"Og and Thog had spears and were looking right at me, but I had Pvt Grog go around so he can attack from the side"

-from the cave-painting memoirs of Colonel Crog (retd)

The Russians are using a crazy strategy known as "attacking the enemy with a stronger force than your enemy".

The West: "damn commies using human wave attacks"

The Wikipedia page for Human Wave Attacks is like reading Conservapedia, btw.

2022: Russians are orcs, they will do human wave attacks and lose

2026: Noooo

Complaining as if this is an RTS game or something

German seething about those damn Russians using a "WW2 tactic" when describing basic warfare

not beating the bitter nazi allegations

The Russians and Persians unable to brute force with an absolutely stupid strategy come up with a strategy that works.