Unlike other posters who make this thread, online takes are cool here, but bonus points for IRL stuff.

I was drinking with a coworker last night and somehow communism and the USSR came up. They went on about the Holodomer, implying it was engineered and targeted. I explained "hey you're literally repeating nazi talking points" and I dont recall the rest of the conversation, but im happy I got to defend Stalin at a work gathering.

Not the worst thing I've heard all week I don't think, but its both IRL and fresh in my brain.

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I read an article citing some westoid military intelligence expert who by the way has predicted immediate Russian defeat since the beginning of the war. This war was about Russian casualties and some main takeaways were:

    • Ukrainian claims about Russian casualties might be a little exaggerates but they are not that much off
    • Russia is taking heavy casualties now, unlike Ukraine
    • Russian industry lacks key components for war production while western industry has near-unlimited capacity.
    • Iranian drones prove how desperate and just about to collapse Russia is
    • Unlike westerners, Russians doesn't care about human lives and just leaves their wounded behind

    The man claiming all this used to work in the actual military intelligence agency before he cashed out and got a job in a think tank. I can't divine whether he is this delusional or whether it's cynical propaganda.