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  • Russians are getting... whatever they get,

    Buddy, Russia is blowing up previously never-exploded Britbong tanks and basically disassembling NATO artillery before it even launches, often simply by having weapons that work.

    The Transatlantic Empire's most effective weapons have proven, like always, to be terrorism and targeted political assassinations. The U.S. is as paper a fucking tiger now as it was when chairman Mao said it.

  • Ignoring the stupid and outright murderously insane shit in that post...

    Are they not aware that Ukrainian men were also conscripted? Ukraine quite literally locked down the borders and wouldn't let men out and said "go protect the homeland!"

    I understand the conscripts thing is meant to he demoralizing or whatever like "you don't even want this war! Give up!" but that fails when your own country is also conscripting and begging for people from around the world to come help fight Russia. This wasn't exactly kept a secret either, so it's just weird seeing it used in this way.

    • Fascist blocking squads were quite violent with those they deemed cowards trying to desert...

      At least Russians who were drafted actually have a sane chance of survival...getting "drafted" by Ukronazis is a death sentence...

  • Setting aside the question of winter gear (as comrades have already highlighted it), and even setting aside the murderous masturbatory fantasy of war-as-videogame (what they describe is essentially CoD or Ghost Recon kind of game, with gigachad protagonist having hilarious over the top advantage over poorly programmed NPCs).

    I want to focus a little on the example chosen for comparison - Predator movie. Because it is a very peculiar choice. What do we see in the movie? First we see a team of these stereotypical Hollywood gigachad "operators" tear through a gang of Hollywood "rebels" in an absurdly one-sided tussle. Can't even call it a skirmish. The yanks have better gear, better physique, better everything, exactly as what the idiot in the image imagines yankee troops to be. And then the alien turns it upside down on them, by having better physique, better tech, etc. And it's once again not a battle, nor a fight, the alien is just hiding in the trees like a rat to occasionally pop a yank with that absurd gun of his. While invisible. And when Arnie accidentally circumvents the predator's tech - it screeches in impotent rage and fires blindly into the jungle, because its FPS sim got disturbed. Just as the yanks were firing blindly into the jungle earlier, for the same reason.

    So what's the point of this rant? Well, I almost want to see those "SOF teams" try to pull their yankee shit, only to discover what "artillery barrage" means and what "peer equipment" means. But of course, useless removed-s like in the op image won't get the message and will simply continue writing similar masturbatory fanfics.

    • Seriously. I recently read a paper somebody linked here which went over Russian artillery doctrine. Long and the short is that the Russians can get effective artillery fires on a target inside of three minutes under optimal conditions, particularly when using UAVs for spotting. They've also gotten into the habit of attaching mortars to infantry units and forming them up into mortar teams ad hoc, giving such units some quite potent local indirect fire support.

    • the idiot writing this shit won't be on the frontlines having his illusions shattered it will be some guy who got signed up by a press gang while trying to catch a bus and already had his illusions shattered who will have to walk this idiots talk

      • Sadly, you are correct. And that's the core of the issue. The idiots beating the war drums are always the ones feeling perfectly safe and sound in their little wine caves and incel basements on their little islands. It's everyone else who foots the bill for their hubris

    • If we consider the Predator movie, at least the first one, to be an allegory for the Vietnam war because it featured jungle warfare and commando bros facing off against an enemy that is virtually invisible, implacable, utterly alien and incomprehensible, and entirely determined to hunt down and kill the invaders (often in torturous ways) while the commando bros are pretty much helpless against the predator as they get picked off one by one...

      Then they've kinda missed the entire message underlying the movie.

      If they think "better equipment = we're like the predator" then they're failing to grasp the fact that the true terror in the film doesn't come from better technology but from an enemy which can blend seamlessly into the environment, which could be anywhere at any time, and is completely unstoppable. The technology is just window-dressing because if it were about a regiment of small Vietnamese people armed with AK-47s it wouldn't be much of a spectacle and it wouldn't play into macho power fantasies.

      So, if the story is a metaphor about an enemy which is comparatively poorly armed using their skills and the terrain to their advantage, defeating what is assumed to be the best of the best, then why are they using it to brag about having better equipment again?

      Next they're going to use Starship Troopers in completely the wrong way as a metaphor for the war in the Ukraine, aren't they?

      • If we consider the Predator movie, at least the first one, to be an allegory for the Vietnam war

        Errr why should we? Because jungle and imaginary yankee toughs? I'm not sold on this analogy. Predator reads more like Wells' "War of the worlds" - turning the situation upside down on the colonizers. Suddenly they're the ones being hunted for sport by uncaring invader with absurd levels of technological superiority (while still acting as if it's fair and square).

        Then they’ve kinda missed the entire message underlying the movie

        Oh this I agree with

        but from an enemy which can blend seamlessly into the environment, which could be anywhere at any time, and is completely unstoppable.

        Nowadays drones fullfil this function

        Next they’re going to use Starship Troopers in completely the wrong way as a metaphor for the war in the Ukraine, aren’t they

        Didn't nafo already use the "I'm doing my part" bit from the movie, completely serious and missing the satire?

      • The technology in Predator isn't window dressing really, it's icing on a cake, because predator is able to defeat the Murican HeroesTM largely because it, so by extension they suggest that the Vietnamese (not having that tech obviously) must had some kind of magic to be able to do it too.

        Next they’re going to use Starship Troopers in completely the wrong way as a metaphor for the war in the Ukraine, aren’t they?

        Already seen it. And not surprising at all, combined with complete amputation of the sense of irony and satire because prerequisite is to take ST movie completely seriously on face level.

  • Winter offensive is very likely because the Grande Armée is getting French winter gear and Russians are getting... whatever they get, so they'll probably freeze.

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