• TransplantedSconie
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    1 year ago

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

    US Republicans furiously taking notes

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

      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

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        1 year ago

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

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          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

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            1 year ago

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

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