This is what "America will fight Russia to the last Ukrainian" looks like
one of the things that is never shown in movies about D-Day is how most of the troops defending the beaches were the dregs of the army, I remember reading Beevor's book about D-Day and he talked about how it was predominantly conscripted 15 year old and 60 year old guys in those pillboxes. I should dig up the quotes
anyway in the movies like Saving Private Ryan it's always a hulking Teutonic guy in his twenties with blue eyes, not guys who look like this
The western allies were quite literally fighting against conscripted reservists that wouldn't be normally fit for service or broken units from the eastern front that were sent to garrison the western occupied zones to replenish their ranks and train for redeployment eastward. A lot of cinema really don't portray the fact that that our soldiers were fighting and struggling against the occupation forces.
It's not better when it's young men forced to die in the mud, but it's certainly not a good sign when they've run out of young men to do the dying.
If they have to die so I can have my McRib, that's a small price to pay.- Average Liberal Democracy enjoyer
All because the fascist fucks and billionaire oligarchs from the west want to have their cake and eat it. Just genuinely fucked up
Christ... the guy on the 2nd to most right side of the main photo looks like a future totenkopf...
Tragic. They should be spending their golden years relaxing in cafes or seeing their grandkids. Instead they’re fighting an unwinnable war for a ruling class that doesn’t care about them. A tale as old as time, but no less sad.
Whenever I see a photo like this, I try to assume that they are not true believers, just conscripts who were otherwise going on with their lives or maybe even oppose the war but forced to fight. I don’t know what I would do in that situation.
They look like the modern version of the guys Thereon took to sack Winter fell with
