https://www.businessinsider.com/western-fighters-die-in-ukraine-assume-be-easy-us-veteran-2024-5
used as a sacrificial unit
Bitch it’s called being in the ukranian army, this is what you wanted
"To the last man" means you're all sacrificial. Shame nobody except communists were able to figure that out. Again.
Everyone else doesn’t believe in material conditions. “To the last man” is inspiring when it doesn’t get translated to what happens on the ground.
I remember a bunch of Iraq/Afghanistan war vets going out in the first couple of months, getting hit with airstrikes and artillery and then immediately noping out lmao
Turns out war is a lot harder when you're not just murdering women and children.
Those articles they wrote about how they didn't have access to airstrikes to "shape the battlefield", being unable to just call in a medivac helicopter for every stubbed toe, being told to hold a trench to the death instead of going on special operations missions, and otherwise finding out that war is actually dangerous when your opponent can fight back were
Every US army tough guy immediately turning around and fleeing the moment they find out there’s no cafeteria in the trenches and no children to murder
Some "operator" right before being told to charge across a minefield and assault a prepared defensive position- "What do you mean I can't UberEats some BurgerKing? War really is hell!"
Apparently it's a lot harder when your side isn't the one with air, armor, and artillery superiority
Who knew
Extremely critical support to Ukraine in its struggle against redditors.
I'd rather a Westoid war criminal get fed into the meat grinder than some Ukrainian dude whose only failings were being born on the wrong side of the Deniper and not running fast enough from the "recruiters".
Pounded In The Butt By Ukrainian Hunter-Murder Drones by Chuck Tingle
But
proved themselves worthy to the investment to go IPO
Turns out war doesn't play out the same way when the other side can shoot back, who knew.
“Veterans” who spent 15 years shitting in an air-conditioned port-a-potty fail to fight actual war
Burger King truck: deployed
Waste management (burn pits): dug out
Buildings (six sheets of drywall): built
It's military base time
For some reason I'm imagining a giant robot from fallout serving up a burger of liberty saying catch lines like "now serving up democracy" while throwing burger bombs or "I hope you like it flame broiled" while shooting geysers of napalm
Bro that is not a flex when you can’t even supply your men with artillery lmfao
That's so fucking dystopian. Beyond dystopian even. Like, it would be too on-the-nose in a dystopian novel about corporate armies fighting each other for profit.
What do you mean I can't just call in air support to bomb these guys?They don't even have McDonald's restaurants in their bases!!
Don't these backwards rubes understand that McGriddles and Rip-It energy drinks are fucking FORCE MULTIPLIERS?!?
Awww did a bunch of serial killers that thought they were just going to commit war crimes against unarmed civilians and call them combatants find out what an actually equipped army is like to fight against.
as it turned out, being a veteran of the Culture Wars, resisting in the War on Christmas, leading the Bathroom Genital Inspection Militias, and fighting for Prayer in Public Schools did not actually confer any relevant skill or tactical awareness in the Burgerlanders.
it was in this prideful confusion the International Brigades found themselves obliterated by a 22 year old doing a trig problem to drop artillery on their position.
In their defence, how much skill and tactical awareness do you need when the order of the day is to sit in a foxhole and get shelled by a 120mm mortar?
some international survivors saying they were used as a "sacrificial unit"
Mercenaries are learning why people buy mercenaries.
I'd understand it if this article was written two years ago at the height of "Slava Ukraini hero Zelenskyyyyyy in camo", but why would you assume it'd be easy in 2024?
In their defense according to the media it's been a completely one sided war and ukraine is just losing ground because thousands of unarmed Russian soldiers were doing human wave attacks.
You know, the exact same reason nazi Germany said they were losing.
i remember a while ago bbc ran a story about how russians were reduced to attacking ukrainian fortifications with shovels because they'd run out of guns and buried deep in the article it said something like "the Ukrainian government has not stated where this engagement took place and the BBC has been unable to independently verify it"
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Lmao at the BBC trying to age shame an entrenching tool.
You're just mad that Russia doesn't have access to our sophisticated modern shoveling technology
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I guess you haven't heard of Elon Musk's heckin' epic bacon chungus SPACE SHOVEL.
(Actually a trowel in a plastic sheath)
Yea you'd think "we keep abondoning positions to people we claim don't know what a toilet is" would be a pretty tough thing to admit.
Which does not speak very highly of the actual situation they're trying to not admit to.
The propaganda has been so dumb. They tried recycling all the tired shit they used against Arabs living in a desert for decades. They were saying Russians didn't know what toilets and roads are and how they're uncivilized farmers living in mud huts on dirt roads
So imagine how much more efficient they become invading a nation that has roads and they don't have to slog through mud and brush. Not so fun fighting savage barbarians that didn't grow up in luxury with modern amenities is it? They restructured all their war machines and training around fighting an insurgent enemy with no sea or air power and I guess just hoped it would work against an army exactly like their own?
Westerners see war like it's Lord of the Rings or Marvel. Zero sense of reality.
There was a
thread recently where people were unironically parroting "human wave attacks" and it all just felt so deeply unserious. Like, if Russia really was doing that doesn't that just imply how wildly inept the Ukrainians are if they can't even overcome a tactic that was solved the day the automatic weapon was established?Weird how the billions of dollars we've sent them haven't been able to equip them as well as soldiers in WWI.
The human wave attacks imho are an exaggeration of a real phenomenon with the Ukraine war. Obviously it’s dumb to think Russia just sends dudes out to get cut down, but it was a legitimate strategy, especially earlier when Wagner was doing a lot of the fighting, to send men out to intentionally draw artillery/small arms fire in order to reveal enemy positions for counter batteries. Any western nation would have done the same thing given the situation.
Human Wave Attacks!*
*) The humans are all part of artillery crews saturating you with shells
These mercenary types all think they're The Punisher, an unstoppable force of nature
They're used to being set on civilians and insurgent forces at best
The West hasn't had a war against a peer in a while, so these guys aren't used to fighting guys who can counter their tactics and weapons
Are there still new people going over!? IThere was a rush of people in the beginning who just did not understand what air superiority meant, but my video game-addled brain assumed that any current volunteers would have found their audio logs conveniently scattered on the way there.
They're mostly mercenaries now
The stories of the First Armored Reddit Brigade did stamp down the idea that Call of Duty veterans can make a difference
The entire world of being a mercenary is so foreign to me I couldn't even imagine how to begin finding a job in the field, but surely there are better merc jobs out there at this moment than going to the meat grinder for a military notorious for not paying their mercenaries
start by being discharged from a regular army and wait for shady individuals/emails to hit you up. all the major companies aren't real 'soldiers of fortune' just disavowable government assets closely attached to a national army & using its retired personnel
thats so much less glamorous than my head canon but makes a lot of sense
I remember watching a documentary on mercs in Afghanistan who mostly did convoy protection, the way they pitched themselves it seemed like if you got out after four years of being an infantryman they would call you right as you realized that the government lied to you about everyone in the civilian world wanting to hire veterans.
"British Fighters in the Somme are getting killed because they assumed they'd be home in time for Christmas, says English soldier who fought there"
