Pointless, futile death, this strategy will never work for russia no matter how many times they try it.

I am sure when they were getting hyped up to do the mission with everybody on motor bikes they looked cool and badass before they all died for no good reason. I wonder if it was worth it for them and what they were thinking in the last seconds of their lives?

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    21 days ago

    We don’t really even know if that wave was russians, they could have all been confused people fooled into frontline military service from different countries, russia probably doesn’t even know which doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be stopped with force but also recognize russia is BEGGING you to dehumanize and flatten these people so they can convince gullible foot soldiers being sent to die for absolutely senseless reasons into thinking the other side are the real enemies instead of the russian state.

    The russians you are imagining absolutely exist, obviously, but also question the simple narrative that this can be reduced to that.

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            21 days ago

            I am not interested in your restrictive definitions of how groups of people behave, it is unproductive to anything useful.

            My point is that many frontline russian soldiers are not even in fact russian and may have entirely been tricked into being there, you can’t perceive the entire russian military as “orcs” or something and call it a day.

            Doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be stopped with force, but it is necessary nuance.