Baubles and Scrooge Discussion from December 25th to December 31st, 2023 - The War on Christmas: Counteroffensive - COTW: Finland

Image: one of our POW camps filled with captured soldiers of the Christmas regime.

Season's greetings, fellow godless communists. I'm here to disseminate orders from our Supreme Communist Dictator as we once again find ourselves fighting against the very concept of Christmas. As a reminder, by the end of our five-year plan, we plan to be in a position to attack and dethrone God, but this intermediate step is required to fulfil this directive. Our forces in the field have made significant, if gradual, progress since you received your mission update last year. It has been difficult, but we have developed a series of defensive lines to prepare for a counteroffensive out of Lapland that will try and reach the Gulf of Bothnia in an attempt to cut the land bridge that we have set up across Scandinavia.

Currently, we foresee a few major threats. General Santa Clauswitz has been developing many tools in his workshop, including artillery-launched snowballs, barbed tinsel, and reinforced gingerbread armor plating for his tanks and infantry carriers. President Frostyy has made the following public statement: "The socialists who wish to destroy us have no idea what their defenses are about to face. Democracy will always defeat autocracy. Christmas will always triumph over X-mas. The leaders of the axis facing us are all on the naughty list and will be tried for crimes against festivity once this war is over."

Delusional as this may be, the next couple days will be the most dangerous as they stage their counteroffensive, and we need everybody to pitch in and get into defensive positions. We expect this to be the last major push that they will make before collapse. Please report any Christmas trees, mistletoe, or general symbology of the Christmas regime to your superiors.

Over and out.

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Today's Gaza combat footage, featuring another instance of planting a bomb right on the side of a tank.
Its crazy hiw small some of these tunnel holes are. Do you think some of them are improvised? Im thinking long horizontal tunnels with locations that can be very quickly dug or excavated to provide dynamic ambushes. It's crazy how close this guy pops up beside that tank
https://streamable.com/27peer
- If I had to guess, there's a deep layer of very sophisticated tunnels where most of the ammo and workshops and shit are kept which is mostly impervious to things like flooding due to ventilation and drainage, then a layer of less sophisticated but still quite good tunnels (the ones with the concrete around it that we've seen a couple videos of), and then a shallow layer of makeshift tunnels with little if any shielding, very earthy and narrow so they can be dug quickly, turning the whole place into a gigantic labrinyth. It feels like Israel could try and attack Gaza for years, and so long as there's enough supplies down there, they could never clear Hamas out. It's just too big and complex and they're experts at turning the entire thing into explosive death traps. You could lose entire modern armies in Gaza (and, well, one is being defeating as we speak there). Bakhmut feels like a lovely picnic in a flowery meadow compared to the hell that is Gaza for the Zionists right now. Stalingrad might be a better comparison, if the battle over it was not only horizontal but also vertical.