• Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Sure, but I’m not about to give “A retired Australian general” the benefit of the doubt here.

    There’s a 99% chance that what he really means is “war used to be so easy for us when we mass-murdered poor brown people, and now that we’re facing actual opposition I want to cry like a little baby”

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      1 year ago

      From what I understand Russia really does have extremely powerful defenses. They’ve got an enormous amount of artillery and apparently unlimted number of shells for it, and since the Ukrainians are apparently mostly down to unsupported light infantry, ie cannon fodder, the Russians have just been letting them move in to prepared kill zones, wiping them out, rinse, repeat.

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          1 year ago

          The us hasn’t been in a real pitched battle since vietnam afaik. The closest thing was Fallujah 20 years ago and that was mostly just a turkey shoot. They surrounded Fallujah with heavy weapons and just unloaded in to the city until nothing was moving.