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[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (16 children)

"We've scraped together 40 drunks, a ninety year old tank, and a potato gun. Which the 40 drunks immediately dismantled to get the potatoes to make vodka, and set fire to the tank."

sad blyat noises

[–] JohnBrownsDream@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

If that's the state of the Russian military it says a lot that even with billions being thrown at Ukraine they're still fighting a year and half later

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (7 children)

You can do quite a bit of fuckery when you keep a population ignorant and misinformed.

US Republicans furiously taking notes

[–] JohnBrownsDream@hexbear.net -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What I mean is that Ukraine still fighting Russia with so much money being thrown at their defense doesn't seem to jive with a narrative of a foundering Russian military

[–] Dreyns@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What russia lacks in gear it makes up with cannon fodder and blood. This is how you last a year and a half.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Like every article and interview with Ukranians about the conditions on the battlefield make mention of the RF consistently having an exponential sometimes 10 to 1) artillery advantage, which also doesn't gel with the narrative of an unsupplied army on the brink of collapse

[–] Flaps@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not the Russians sending waves of recruits into minefields but ok

[–] Dreyns@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Because you think they didn't do it when they attacked a few month ago ?

[–] wildncrazyguy@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

And what he’s saying is that you can do a lot of fuckery when you keep people misinformed.

[–] jscummy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They may not have many effective pieces of equipment or soldiers, but they sure as hell have a lot of ineffective ones

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