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[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 112 points 4 months ago (1 children)

used as a sacrificial unit

Bitch it’s called being in the ukranian army, this is what you wanted

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 95 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

"To the last man" means you're all sacrificial. Shame nobody except communists were able to figure that out. Again.

[–] Pentacat@hexbear.net 47 points 4 months ago

Everyone else doesn’t believe in material conditions. “To the last man” is inspiring when it doesn’t get translated to what happens on the ground.

[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 111 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I remember a bunch of Iraq/Afghanistan war vets going out in the first couple of months, getting hit with airstrikes and artillery and then immediately noping out lmao

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 105 points 4 months ago

Turns out war is a lot harder when you're not just murdering women and children.

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 104 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Those articles they wrote about how they didn't have access to airstrikes to "shape the battlefield", being unable to just call in a medivac helicopter for every stubbed toe, being told to hold a trench to the death instead of going on special operations missions, and otherwise finding out that war is actually dangerous when your opponent can fight back were chefs-kiss

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 53 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Every US army tough guy immediately turning around and fleeing the moment they find out there’s no cafeteria in the trenches and no children to murder

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[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 36 points 4 months ago

Apparently it's a lot harder when your side isn't the one with air, armor, and artillery superiority

Who knew

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 110 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Extremely critical support to Ukraine in its struggle against redditors.

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 64 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'd rather a Westoid war criminal get fed into the meat grinder than some Ukrainian dude whose only failings were being born on the wrong side of the Deniper and not running fast enough from the "recruiters".

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 35 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 80 points 4 months ago

Turns out war doesn't play out the same way when the other side can shoot back, who knew.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 78 points 4 months ago (1 children)

“Veterans” who spent 15 years shitting in an air-conditioned port-a-potty fail to fight actual war

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 80 points 4 months ago (4 children)
[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 53 points 4 months ago (2 children)
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[–] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 38 points 4 months ago

Bro that is not a flex when you can’t even supply your men with artillery lmfao

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[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 70 points 4 months ago
[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 68 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean I can't just call in air support to bomb these guys?

[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 56 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They don't even have McDonald's restaurants in their bases!!

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 27 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Where is this trench’s Walmart?

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[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 67 points 4 months ago

Awww did a bunch of serial killers that thought they were just going to commit war crimes against unarmed civilians and call them combatants find out what an actually equipped army is like to fight against.

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 61 points 4 months ago (1 children)

as it turned out, being a veteran of the Culture Wars, resisting in the War on Christmas, leading the Bathroom Genital Inspection Militias, and fighting for Prayer in Public Schools did not actually confer any relevant skill or tactical awareness in the Burgerlanders.

it was in this prideful confusion the International Brigades found themselves obliterated by a 22 year old doing a trig problem to drop artillery on their position.

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[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 59 points 4 months ago

some international survivors saying they were used as a "sacrificial unit"

Mercenaries are learning why people buy mercenaries.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 57 points 4 months ago

Unlimited death on every mercenary.

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 56 points 4 months ago (2 children)

"What do you mean war hasn't changed?"

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[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 52 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'd understand it if this article was written two years ago at the height of "Slava Ukraini hero Zelenskyyyyyy in camo", but why would you assume it'd be easy in 2024?

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 68 points 4 months ago (4 children)

In their defense according to the media it's been a completely one sided war and ukraine is just losing ground because thousands of unarmed Russian soldiers were doing human wave attacks.

You know, the exact same reason nazi Germany said they were losing.

[–] Leon_Frotsky@hexbear.net 54 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

i remember a while ago bbc ran a story about how russians were reduced to attacking ukrainian fortifications with shovels because they'd run out of guns and buried deep in the article it said something like "the Ukrainian government has not stated where this engagement took place and the BBC has been unable to independently verify it"

edit: i found the article

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 47 points 4 months ago (4 children)

The tool was designed in 1869 and had changed little, the ministry said.

Lmao at the BBC trying to age shame an entrenching tool.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 36 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You're just mad that Russia doesn't have access to our sophisticated modern shoveling technology smuglord

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[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 46 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Damn these unarmed human wave attacks be poppin off

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 46 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yea you'd think "we keep abondoning positions to people we claim don't know what a toilet is" would be a pretty tough thing to admit.

Which does not speak very highly of the actual situation they're trying to not admit to.

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 43 points 4 months ago

Enemy is both weak and strong, etc etc

[–] Sephitard9001@hexbear.net 40 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The propaganda has been so dumb. They tried recycling all the tired shit they used against Arabs living in a desert for decades. They were saying Russians didn't know what toilets and roads are and how they're uncivilized farmers living in mud huts on dirt roads

So imagine how much more efficient they become invading a nation that has roads and they don't have to slog through mud and brush. Not so fun fighting savage barbarians that didn't grow up in luxury with modern amenities is it? They restructured all their war machines and training around fighting an insurgent enemy with no sea or air power and I guess just hoped it would work against an army exactly like their own?

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[–] CommunistBear@hexbear.net 45 points 4 months ago (3 children)

There was a reddit-logo thread recently where people were unironically parroting "human wave attacks" and it all just felt so deeply unserious. Like, if Russia really was doing that doesn't that just imply how wildly inept the Ukrainians are if they can't even overcome a tactic that was solved the day the automatic weapon was established?

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 33 points 4 months ago

Weird how the billions of dollars we've sent them haven't been able to equip them as well as soldiers in WWI.

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[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 44 points 4 months ago (1 children)

These mercenary types all think they're The Punisher, an unstoppable force of nature

They're used to being set on civilians and insurgent forces at best

The West hasn't had a war against a peer in a while, so these guys aren't used to fighting guys who can counter their tactics and weapons

[–] homhom9000@hexbear.net 28 points 4 months ago

Good riddance. More should go.

[–] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 49 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Are there still new people going over!? IThere was a rush of people in the beginning who just did not understand what air superiority meant, but my video game-addled brain assumed that any current volunteers would have found their audio logs conveniently scattered on the way there.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 40 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They're mostly mercenaries now

The stories of the First Armored Reddit Brigade did stamp down the idea that Call of Duty veterans can make a difference

[–] absolutefuckinidiot@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The entire world of being a mercenary is so foreign to me I couldn't even imagine how to begin finding a job in the field, but surely there are better merc jobs out there at this moment than going to the meat grinder for a military notorious for not paying their mercenaries

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

start by being discharged from a regular army and wait for shady individuals/emails to hit you up. all the major companies aren't real 'soldiers of fortune' just disavowable government assets closely attached to a national army & using its retired personnel

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[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 44 points 4 months ago

"British Fighters in the Somme are getting killed because they assumed they'd be home in time for Christmas, says English soldier who fought there"

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 41 points 4 months ago

I love that these dipshits would have never considered they would be viewed as more expendable than Ukrainians to the Ukrainian government. They thought their status as westerners would shield them when all it did was mark them as first to die since they have no connections to Ukraine in the first place.

These were the dumbasses that were posting their location in a warzone with complete disregard for opsec after all so no one should be surprised they had zero understanding of what modern war entails

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 38 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 36 points 4 months ago

instead of Human waves it's called sacrificial units

[–] Zrc@hexbear.net 26 points 4 months ago

rip-bozo

hope they all had at least a few weeks of suffering and losing their friends in the trenches before getting torn to pieces

[–] tocopherol@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago
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