Russia will build up forces at its western borders following Finland's accession to the U.S.-led NATO alliance, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told the governing board of the ministry on Wednesday.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1253052

Archived version: https://archive.ph/HGfpH
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230809191901/https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-build-up-forces-west-counter-nato-threat-shoigu-2023-08-09/

  • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
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    11 个月前

    "We've scraped together 40 drunks, a ninety year old tank, and a potato gun. Which the 40 drunks immediately dismantled to get the potatoes to make vodka, and set fire to the tank."

    sad blyat noises

    • JohnBrownsDream [he/him, comrade/them]
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      11 个月前

      If that's the state of the Russian military it says a lot that even with billions being thrown at Ukraine they're still fighting a year and half later

      • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
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        11 个月前

        You can do quite a bit of fuckery when you keep a population ignorant and misinformed.

        US Republicans furiously taking notes

        • JohnBrownsDream [he/him, comrade/them]
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          11 个月前

          What I mean is that Ukraine still fighting Russia with so much money being thrown at their defense doesn't seem to jive with a narrative of a foundering Russian military

          • Dreyns@lemmy.ml
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            11 个月前

            What russia lacks in gear it makes up with cannon fodder and blood. This is how you last a year and a half.

            • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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              11 个月前

              Like every article and interview with Ukranians about the conditions on the battlefield make mention of the RF consistently having an exponential (sometimes 10 to 1) artillery advantage, which also doesn't gel with the narrative of an unsupplied army on the brink of collapse

            • Flaps [he/him]
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              11 个月前

              It's not the Russians sending waves of recruits into minefields but ok

    • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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      11 个月前

      "The enemy is both strong and weak. By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”

    • Fuckass
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      10 个月前

      deleted by creator

      • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
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        11 个月前

        Oh, bless your heart, child. Do you think we are sending them money all willie-nillie?

        What we are sending them are mothballed weapons that were just sitting in wearhouses collecting dust.

        Now those weapons are fulfilling their purpose and what they were designed to do: kill Russians and their equipment, and there is a massive bonus with the loan. We are destroying Russia without a single American soldier having to be on the ground. Their economy is in shambles, their young bright minds have long since fled the stupidity of the Russian military and leaders, and all that is left are drunks and idiots to blind to see or to ignorant to care what's happening to the country.

        It's a master class in overseas diplomatic maneuvers, and Diamond Joe is the one who did it. What a stud.