https://warriorlodge.com/blogs/news/16298760-a-french-soldiers-view-of-us-soldiers-in-afghanistan
Had a family member stationed on a shared base with americans. He could not say one good thing about them. Their base itself was shit, everything was just destroyed. The americans would comer over to his side of base all the time, because it was "cozy" (they had chairs that weren't destroyed by some roided up grunt). The americans would pull out a big projector screen every friday, pull out barbeques and then watch live drone footage as they hooted and hollered. The meat was shit too. Not that the shitty base and the shitty meat matters at all, it's just to illustrate that all the horrors inflicted upon the locals was so some 
could eat terrible food in a broken chair in an ugly home.
He had to participate in an operation once. Some local who was working as a chef on base was suspected of being an Al Qaeda member (he wasn't). The briefing was 10 minutes, the captain had named the operation "Operation Fuck Shit Up". The briefing was mainly just to get these overly aggressive dudes to be hyped about doing their "job".
They went to were the afghani lived (a tent), which was a small settlement full of very chill people that all had jobs depending on the base. Instead of knocking or checking with family or anything, or just driving in a normal car like normal people to have a chat, they rolled out in a fucking tank. Then they cut his tent open (one cut for each individual) and destroyed the insides - The dude wasn't home.
They then found him "hiding" (working at his second job) somewhere else, where they did indeed Fuck Shit Up. They beat up the guy, they beat up others at the place, they destroyed the interior.
The US had the highest rate of blue-on-blue violence, and it was very obvious why. He said they would pray that americans didn't answer calls for help, because it would just make things worse.
Does the 40k videogame universe imply IG are Brits/European/NATO and the Space Marines are American? I hadn't thought about it but the similarities seem intentional
i never played any of the games, i just read scifi and fantasy slop all the time because im bored and its a common type of slop.
the marines have weird scandinavian vikings so maybe those are people from wisconsin or something lmao
I'm enjoying the idea that a Space Marines chemical treatment is just injections of bbq sauce and cheese whiz.
The RTS games are fun but the stories are pretty generic
Sometimes yes, but mostly no, if there's one thing the Imperial Guard and Space Marine factions get right is the diversity of themes and cultural literary allusions
Tallarn Desert Raiders and Attilan Rough Raiders being notable examples
The writing tends to have a mixed degree of sympathy for IG, given how expendable and brainwashed they are. Space Marines pretty much get free reign and are equally hazardous to both Xenos factions and human IG troops, Space Wolves and Salamanders being rare exceptions to this rule.
Well most IG are various stereotypes (sneaky middle easterners, stoopid russkies with human waves and one gun for three men, literally Rambo 2, etc). The most famous ones though are British-esque (cadians) and French that everyone thinks are Germans (Krieg).
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Aren't the Russian ones more an imperial Russia aesthetic than a Soviet one?
You're thinking vostroyans, who are indeed styled heavily after imperial Russia (except for some bits I won't go into). But I was referring to Valhallans, who straight up have the Nazi myth about rifles and soldiers in their entry in Guard Codex