i cry a little every time i remember every city in the USSR with a million people got a subway
id have a subway here on liberal mountain :ooooooooooooooh:
America has been similar to a warzone for ages. Huge parts of the country are essentially a low intensity civil war between the occupying police forces and the black/brown natives.
Even in 1993, Mobb Deep compared New York City to Vietnam. Shit hasn't gotten better since.
Also build trains
Death to America
there is so much conflicting information about life in the US.
local news/mass culture makes a lot of hay out of violent crime events by minorities, painting urbanized as lawless zones to suburban whites.
a whole contingent of pseudo social scientists point to the decline in "violent crime" rates, which sidesteps a lawless law enforcement system, not to mention the all too real phenomena of people not contacting the authorities due to their a.) uselessness and b.) likelihood of making any situation worse.
i've learned from personal experience not to report jack shit to the cops, because they don't do anything besides try to get you to incriminate yourself about literally anything they feel like dreaming up on the spot. and even if you go through all of it, they still won't file a report even for insurance purposes, unless you climb up their ass about it repeatedly. then it's a coin toss if making them do their job one time will get you put on a list for retaliation.
Not to underestimate the devastation of any war, but had it been the US government that had gone to war with Ukraine they would've hit every transit system. Russia's handling this war with far more professionalism and frankly humanity.
Humanity? No. Professionalism? Also no. They were hitting some trains early in the war.
Just different goals, capabilities and cost-benefit analysis.
Again, a question of goals. I.e. see the Chechen war. The Russians are absolutely on a different level - see the Chechen wars. The yanks got nothing on that even when invading a colonial country halfway across the world. Likewise if the US decides to take Mexico city in three days, with the idea of annexing the place, they would use a similar approach of not targeting metro and stuff. Despite it being an imperialist war, Ukraine is still right next to Russia and annexation with absolutely crushing the enemy is not a great idea.
And it’s not like military infrastructure isn’t a valid target anyways.
counterpoint, US warplanners would be so unfamiliar with a subway system they wouldn't know the right targeting and munition formulas to damage them :think-about-it:
"okay so we need to shell the trains. apparently they're like long cars."
"they're limos?"
"kind of but they stick together"
"that doesn't make any sense. why would limos stick together? you sound insane."
“Hmmm….” staring at arcane map of public transit
“…. Just carpet bomb?”
“Just carpet bomb.”
Go transit has somehow not returned to anything resembling normal service since omicron. They somehow managed it between vaccinations and omicron wave lol.
The bus by closest to my parents (which is like a 30 minute walk) only comes once an hour
I read "off peak frequency" and immediately assumed this was going to be a naturopathic vibes crystalposting bit.
If you think about it, Kyiv is a Taurus rising, which with it's natural harmonic of 13.2 MHz gives it an intrinsic defensive aura
