those dirty Russianist hordes will surely be weakened by the onset of winter, which history has shown is the perfect time to launch an offensive into Russia. I am very intelligent.The NATO forces will be warmed by the power of love, and triumph over the evil of Russia! I hear they are ready to use the Carebear Stare if Putin doesn't surrender.
Yes, it will go terribly for Russia, the country which notoriously lost every time they fought in winter.
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Was gonna say ah yes the Russian army, famously I'll equipped for winter defenses.
Ukraine already complaining that Russia is cheating by using at Mines on their tanks, I'm sure covering them in snow will make it easier.
Ah ye,s the Russians, famously unprepared for... checks notes ...Winter! Yes, this makes sense!
the cycle repeats again, but to a much shorter beat this time
Russians are getting... whatever they get,
Buddy, Russia is blowing up previously never-exploded Britbong tanks and basically disassembling NATO artillery before it even launches, often simply by having weapons that work.
The Transatlantic Empire's most effective weapons have proven, like always, to be terrorism and targeted political assassinations. The U.S. is as paper a fucking tiger now as it was when chairman Mao said it.
Don't forget propaganda powerful enough to make people oblivious to their material conditions
Too many folk here in Amerika "know" more about what's happening in Ukraine than what's happening in their own damn neighborhoods.
An addict shoots up. A mugger creates a victim. A cop shoots a black child. A homeless man freezes to death. A drunk beats his wife. Everyone starves and struggles against the tremendous weight of debt. Buildings and streets continue to erode ever further, unmolested by the tyranny of public investment. All within the shadow of billowing Ukrainian and Amerikan flags planted on some "apolitical" petit-bourgeois fucker's perfectly mowed lawn. 🇺🇦 🇺🇸
Russians discovering the concept of the Russian winter for the first time in their lives
The Russians never read War and Peace either because it was written in (checks notes) Russian?
I'm sure Russia has military clothing for cold weather somewhere. This has to have been an issue that Russia anticipated at some point coming up
At one point when typing stuff like above out one has to ask themselves if Russia, a country that has experience with extremely cold temperatures since forever, does not have winter proof materials for their army.
Interestingly enough, there were issues with winter gear in Russian military - around 2008. Back when Serdyukov was minister of defence and launched a program of refitting the military. That was when Russian military began switching to "digital" camo (little pixels instead of big spots of the old Flora). Seeing how since then Russia has expanded operations in the Arctic, I daresay the issues were fixed.
Ah yes. The Russians. Notorious for losing to invading forces due to being ill prepared for harsh Russian winters.
If there is one propaganda narrative I did not expect to see, it's this one. This is why I don't gamble. Can you imagine the odds?
Russians are getting... whatever they get, so they'll probably freeze
YES, Russia, fucking RUSSIA, the fucking BIG BEAR, THE FUCKING COUNTRY WHERE THE MOST COLD CITY IS, DOESN'T HAVE EQUIPMENT FOR THE WINTER
LIKE, they even remember that the war already passed a winter?
I was under the impression that libs thought history started in February 2022, but it turns out they seem to think that it started sometime in the last 3-4 months.
Best as I can tell, Liberal history began when they last swam past that tiny castle in their bowl.
Yes because the Russians are so utterly incompetent that they have literally no strategy in winter time aside from standing around like chickens with their fucking heads cut off. How do people buy this shit?
I am pretty sure it's 95% deeply rooted racism and the rest is the result of the ongoing propaganda campaign.
They buy it because they have internalized racism, it is simply not possible that these asiatic beasts have prepared for winter.
The nazis themselves were like this, the diaries of their leaders during the first 2-3 weeks of operation barbarossa show how little they thought of the soviet union at the start.
Half of the posters are probably paid to say it and the other half are lib brained.
alright am I crazy or is this not the exact same thing these people were saying last year as winter was approaching?
That’s what’s also confusing me. Like, we’ve already gone through winter of this war so what makes this year different? The Russians survived then and will do the same now so I don’t know what they’re blabbing about.
Most liberals believe history began in 2022. This one happens to be an advanced liberal who believes history started in the summer of 2023
A brief search shows that they seized control in May, so technically spring unless they still get snow during that time.
Sure, but their offensives and encirclement happened mostly in Jan/Feb/Mar.
Clearing the city took until May, though.
Hey, that’s not fair to bots. That level of stupidity is reserved for humans.
Tbh that one still confuses me. You're setting a game ostensibly in USSR and then make the landscape a rainforest? Why?
I think Kojima simply wanted to make a Cold War spy adventure but ALSO had his mind set on jungle survival elements and just... did both.
A South American or South East Asian setting would have more sense and he did eventually pick Nicaragua as the setting of Peace Walker. Guess he just really wanted to have Russians in MGS3
Guess he just really wanted to have Russians in MGS3
Which begs the question of why
Again - why? I understand why Hollywood does it. It's usually just an excuse to have some cannon fodder for the protagonist to indiscriminately murder in industrial proportions without feeling a modicum of guilt or any other emotion - save perhaps for the occasional smug quip. Given what I know about MGS series and how much it wants to be a spy thriller... Looks like it's much the same
It's not a standard evil Rooskies plot. In the prologue Big Boss goes in to extract a formerly defected Soviet rocket scientist, Sokolov, whose defection is actually the real reason for the Cuban Missile Crisis in MGS lore. The US handed him back to the Soviets to end the crisis but Big Boss (called Snake at the time) is sent to get him out after it turns out they are making him construct an advanced nuclear weapon.
The rescue goes wrong and a renegade Soviet colonel (who has lightning powers because MGS) steals Sokolov's weapon and blows up the research facility with a US-made Davy Crockett portable nuclear weapon that was given to him by Snake's former mentor who defects to the Soviet Union and promptly kicks Snake's ass.
Kruschev is furious about an American nuke detonating on Russian soil and demands the Americans go clean up their mess or WWIII is on the table so Snake is sent back to take out the renegade faction, Sokolov's weapon and his old mentor.
Of course, there's more plot twists and double crosses but it's not an average Hollywood dastardly gommulists affair
I mean MGS1 had Alaska so the change of environment was a nice change, also the concept of a rainforest in a country not really known for them was also really cool to me when playing MGS3. I liked that game a lot despite the brain worms it occasionally had.
Oh and the oil rig of 2 was a bit boring ngl, much more preferred the rainstorm of the tanker segment with Snake. When it comes to scenery of course.
It's cool and that's the foremost design rule of MGS since always. All the deeper or more complex stuff just follows along
i know the "invade russia in the winter" meme is inaccurate and overdone, but imagine doing it anyway
This one?
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or the original: https://i.natgeofe.com/n/f4085fbe-b434-4bfc-8820-21b1611b14dd/02_map_post_minard_napolean.jpg?w=1272&h=1102
I didn't mean a particular image, just that the way people talk about it misrepresents the timetables
Why wouldn’t the Russians be prepared? Look at where they live, do they not think Russian soldiers are prepared for fucking winter?
Nope. Every winter all Russians die. Every spring saruman makes new Russians out of dirt and coal.
Yea think Russia is a tropical climate or something 😅.
Its just usual armchair general discourse, they think they are big brain because they think about the weather.
It just baffles me because isn’t Russia kind of well known for its brutal winters?
Or geography, apparently. Either that or after so long denying climate change, they've gone too hard in the other direction.
Well, it depends where in the country (it's big), but generally yeah their summers are milder than say western Europe and winters colder, it's only starting in Ukraine that winters start to get warmer.
I wonder what war looks like in their heads. Is it a fps shooter? A HOI campaign perhaps? Do they seriously believe soldiers just charge at each other?
It looks like the Americans from any Hollywood war movie fighting the Soviets from Enemy at the Gates.
In this particular case I'd say FPS or TPS. You can guess HOI foos by their fart-sniffing "strategic analysis"
As someone who occasionally plays Advance Wars competitively, anyone who's played a map with snow knows how much it stops offensives. These people are below a children's strategy game at this point.
EDIT: These people don't even know that Putin will just activate his CO power and make all the Ukranian units lose 2 hp and lose half their movement due to the snow.
Yeah... I really should try getting into Advance Wars more, it's a fun game but I have issues with abandoning games...
As low as the bar is, I feel like a HOI campaign is actually a step beyond their strategy at this point.
Ah yes. Fighting Russia in winter. The thing that westerners and nazis are definitely very good at.
Ignoring the stupid and outright murderously insane shit in that post...
Are they not aware that Ukrainian men were also conscripted? Ukraine quite literally locked down the borders and wouldn't let men out and said "go protect the homeland!"
I understand the conscripts thing is meant to he demoralizing or whatever like "you don't even want this war! Give up!" but that fails when your own country is also conscripting and begging for people from around the world to come help fight Russia. This wasn't exactly kept a secret either, so it's just weird seeing it used in this way.
Fascist blocking squads were quite violent with those they deemed cowards trying to desert...
At least Russians who were drafted actually have a sane chance of survival...getting "drafted" by Ukronazis is a death sentence...
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