• manxu@piefed.social
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    Frontline infantry assaults that are not netting any significant gains. You must be some special kind of dumb to take specialized, trained soldiers and shove them into an attack for the purpose of seeing them die and nothing else.

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      These are new recruits, not fully trained drone operators.

      It’s still dumb to send the young, the future of the military and the country to the front line to be slaughtered though.

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.uk
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      After years of brainless meat wave tactics and Putin’s transformation of the economy into a wartime one, I’ve seen Russia’s side of the conflict not as a conventional war, but as an economic scheme. Winning in Ukraine would only force them to redirect this economic machine elsewhere, probably towards the Baltic states.

      As long as the war grinds on in this way, the tame oligarchs can keep getting richer. Peace would break the Russian economy. Their workforce is hollowed out, their demographic makeup is in full collapse. They’ll be lucky if China turns them into a client state before it all happens.

  • Luminous5481 "Enemy of the State"@anarchist.nexus
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    any time you join a national military, you sell yourself into slavery. you had best be prepared for that nation to use your life for the benefit of the elites, with little to no regard for your own safety.

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      Not strictly on topic, but that made me imagine a drone flying around carrying one sandal.

      “What’s that it’s got?”

      “Hard to make out. Maybe a shoe.”

      “Ha ha ha. They must be getting desperate.”

      “Wait. I think I’ve seen that one before. The style is so familiar…It’s almost as if…OH MY GOD! IT’S LA CHANCLA! RUN AWAY!”

      “What? You’re afraid of a sandal?”

      “Dude, if you think that thing can’t scorch your ass at 100 meters, you gon’ learn today.”