https://reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/t1ntcb/urban_warfare_tips_from_a_former_marine/
Commit war crimes to lose any protection that might be afforded to you as a civilian in a completely unwinnable war!
Yup, sounds :amerikkka-clap:
20k westerners with no stakes in the conflict:
:pog-dolphin: "hell yes based"
Sharks have more conscience than liberals. Sharks will stop eating when they're full.
More like: Douglas "I want to carpet bomb Korea with nuclear bombs" MacArthur
or robert "let's win the vietnam war by genociding our way to the better kdr" mc namara
They literally called Curtis LeMay "Bombs Away LeMay" at the time too. When you're so bloodthirsty that even your fellow ghouls call you that
They want to inspire unorganized individuals to do adventurism
Al Queda tactics
My first day as a medic at a fire station working independently. Four orientation shifts prior had zero calls. Training to that point was largely on dummies and I had only worked in inpatient psychiatry so no practical skills. I'm sitting down with my firefighters for lunch when the alarm goes off. After scrambling to get unfamiliar gear together, I jumped in my ambulance without any clue what we were heading to. Details began to trickle in. Middle-aged female, heat stroke, unresponsive, seizing on the ground. A genuinely serious call and something I had only seen in a book written for lower-level providers.
Frantically googling "how to treat heat stroke" in the back of a speeding ambulance.
Be me in 2035 hurriedly youtubing "how to use a gun in urban warfare" videos while defending the barricades of the People's Commune of Philadelphia
It really does put some basis around the theory that it is impossible to create a media product critical of fascism, because the fascist will simply glorify the parts they want and ignore the rest. I really do believe in the 'death of the author' for media analysis because of this tendency.
Lindsay Ellis's shit takes aside, she makes a very good case for parodying fascism (Nazism in particular). Fascists haven't appropriated Mel Brooks's lampoons of fascism. They unironically love American History X and sing "Tomorrow Belongs to Me". Nazis do not love "Springtime for Hitler" in the Producers or Jojo Rabbit because it makes them look silly and dumb. Fascists don't have a coherent ideology and build their ethos around telling themselves they are badass warriors, so parodying fascism by making them sing and dance like clowns is good.
The whole post is a goldmine of posturing, armchair urban warfare and just plain tacticool bs.
But to be clear it is correct that tanks without infantry support are relatively easy to outmanoeuvred, but that doesn't mean it is risk free, nor that running around is optimal. Also relatively means it still is dangerous as fuck. As is fighting as civilian and if you are unmarked you lose a ton of rights.
Someone asked how to avoid the turret and the machine gun and they literally said to run circles around the tank and duck under the guns lmao
This is all well and good until you realise the tank has infantry support and another tank next to it.
I'm dreading when these nerds learn about these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_fougasse
Entirety of reddit right now is Hearts of iron and generic shooter gamers acting like war veterans.
I am a combat veteran with 238 achievements won in Call of Duty Black Ops and 409 Platinum Awards in Medal of Honor, I have a 20:1 kIll ratio in Battlefield 3 and countless completed missions in Splinter Cell and Metal Gear Solid:tactical espionage action. I can share some of the wisdom I have gained throughout the years, number 1 being never show weakness, number 2: always kill the medics, number 3: do what I would do.
At least the early MGS games were intentionally "gamey" and Kojima understood and embraced the limitations of the time, MGS1-3 are all full of cartoony unrealistic feats not realy meant to inspire anyone to roleplay anything. Only MGS4-5 start taking things too seriously as he becomes obsessed with realism.
Anyway the point is COD, BF etc all modern AAA shooters and descendants of Counter Strike are very much unironic and realistic games meant either to recruit or make gamers larp about real combat. Those kids probably never played shit like MGS1-3 that very much embraced pseudo-scientific bullshit or straight up cartoon level story telling and villains.
Oh I love all the MGS, the only games I like on that list. I'm just fuxing around
Counterpoint: libs are being cringe about avenegrs/capeshit too, so no amount of retreating from realism can help here.
Definitely take advice from a soldier whose country has been getting its ass handed to it in every conflict since WW2
Unfortunately Azov Battalion is already ahead of the curve on beheadings.
I mean, he does say the tactics are the ones the insurgents in iraq used to kick their butt, so...
This is legitimately grossing me out. Like all of the context, Iraqi veteran, urban warfare instructor (to whom?!), "ukranian ancestry". Posting in a primarily American audience website. Fuck everything about this.
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on
Al-QuaedaIraqi civilians, and I have committed over 300 confirmed war crimesThey're also on Twitter vicariously living their insurgent fantasies through the Ukrainian conflict, posting shit like "throwing Molotov cocktails at tanks is very effective ;)". These people don't know that this isn't like hong kong and that they're not confronting a police force.
This is an international conflict with rules of engagement and while I'm no expert, I'm pretty sure civilians grabbing guns are deemed enemy combatants. Honestly I don't even know which posts are literally the state department trying to make it a huge international incident out of this. @Sadie527181 from Canada just replied to me saying that not supporting insurgency means I'm qanon and @whitesouljaboy lets me know that I would be a coward in the protracted people's war.
Without marking people who engage in attacks like this are seen as not under some laws of protection. Meaning the US did kill, torture (for decades), imprison those who do it and not seldom targeted their families with the same.
LOL holy FUCK that was the FIRST point holy SHIT LOL
:amerikkka-clap: :amerikkka:
No, that what the 15th point. The first (and second) point is "Stay out of the steet(sic)".
Edit: :reddit-logo: Link
Also, the point that precedes it: "14.) If you wound an enemy, don’t kill him. Let his friends come to help him. Moving a wounding a soldier means it will take 4 men out of the fight to carry him away. That’s four less rifles firing at you. " :monke-rage:
