eike
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@LoesbyForIdaho @TrashPanda08x Didn't see you complaining about MCLOS (manual command to line of sight) guided missiles and how inhumane & cowardly it was to use them, or artillery, or ATGMs. War isn't fucking fair and blowing people up from a distance is how people have done things since we figured out how to
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I want every American to oppose this war, but I disagree with you here. POV Drone videos rightfully make you hate the operator for his cowardice and dishonor. Such a video with a American soldier being killed would galvanize some to fight against these Iranian barbarians.
It would be a mistake of propaganda for Iran to release such a video.
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The moment one of these videos depicts a 19yr old from Nebraska getting blown to bits will immediately turn almost every American against this war.
𝚂𝙽𝙸𝙿𝙴𝙳™@The_Banned_Vids
Feels like a predator playing with prey before the inevitable🇷🇺 Historical Footage shows a Ukrainian FPV drone chasing a lone Russian soldier in the field!
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@vrilliumlive Considering that Russia is sending 1-3 poorly equipped soldiers at a time on "assaults," with the objective of advancing, hiding, and waiting for more soldiers to show up, a cheap, single-use munition capable of observing a wide area is actually a very effective use of resources.
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@vrilliumlive The only difference between FPVs and MCLOS (manual command to line of sight) guided missiles is that there are more FPVs in use, and you can watch footage of it from anywhere. Blowing someone up from a distance is actually a pretty old technique.
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This war will be the one that gets drone warfare banned. Like mustard gas in WW1.
It’s inhumane, cowardly, and achieves nothing besides killing one or two people in the most gruesome way possible.
𝚂𝙽𝙸𝙿𝙴𝙳™@The_Banned_Vids
Feels like a predator playing with prey before the inevitable🇷🇺 Historical Footage shows a Ukrainian FPV drone chasing a lone Russian soldier in the field!
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@fanteLiscio OK this is a bit reductive I'm just into housing like that
But the end of communal housing probably did contribute to the birth of consumer culture; it might've even been a prerequisite
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@fanteLiscio Before concrete panel buildings, people were either lucky enough to get the fancy shit on the boulevards or lived in communal housing on the backroads. After concrete panel buildings, people started thinking about buying appliances and furniture. Total American cultural victory
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i will never ever understand people dissing commieblocks,
oh no why doesnt my affordable housing have baroque esque ornaments and exotic materials (ignoring the fact you can do whatever the fuck you want on the inside of your apartment)
Azimuth 🌹 🇭🇷@azimuthium
W*stoids cannot grasp the fact most of these are ugly is because they're in disrepair after almost 4 decades of neglect and corruption
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@Ncbdbc189334 @TheAbsoluteSta2 @Jo0nat4n @0000yyxt @escapefrommelos There aren't as many convicts these days afaik. If you have any source on contract soldiers being forced to join--besides foreigners, I know that's a problem, but it's fairly limited--I'd be happy to take a look
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@eike2079 @TheAbsoluteSta2 @Jo0nat4n @0000yyxt @escapefrommelos And prisoners. Lots and lots of prisoners. Also, most Russians know they aren’t getting that money and if anything are going so their family won’t be killed.
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two things that “radicalized” me about this useless stupid war:
1) these videos are often posted with masturbatory glee
2) the victims are always uniformed but very often unarmed and without helmets… almost like they’re PoWs who have been released and hunted on video for sport
𝚂𝙽𝙸𝙿𝙴𝙳™@The_Banned_Vids
Feels like a predator playing with prey before the inevitable🇷🇺 Historical Footage shows a Ukrainian FPV drone chasing a lone Russian soldier in the field!
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@escapefrommelos @misternevermiss Ukraine hasn't received any US aid in over a year+they're actually not nearly as callous as Russia, you just don't know where to look
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@misternevermiss ukraine cant win against russia without US aid
it seems stupid for ukraine to act as callous as russia
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@Ncbdbc189334 @TheAbsoluteSta2 @Jo0nat4n @0000yyxt @escapefrommelos I have news for you: doi:10.18449/2024C24
Russia is avoiding wider mobilization because the government will lose popularity, and Russians might resist. The government is relying on paying poor people elevated contract bonuses and suggesting that they won't go to the front.
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@TheAbsoluteSta2 @Jo0nat4n @0000yyxt @escapefrommelos Most people don’t actually want to sign up for the military. Many military forces are propped up by mandatory participation from the government. Wars are stupid regardless and nobody outside those in power benefits from it. Not the soldiers fighting, not the citizens, nobody.
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@escapefrommelos The "kill zone" also extends far past the frontline. It's not a crime to kill a uniformed enemy soldier participating in an armed conflict in your own country, regardless of whether he has a weapon. There's not really anything Ukraine can do but continue and hope Russia leaves.
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@escapefrommelos They tend to have weapons, helmets, or both, as far as I've seen. They're also alone because this is how Russia is fighting right now. It used to be small groups of 2-3, now just 1 soldier at a time, at least this past winter. They're also usually poorly equipped.
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@Colgrave1322 @gr77jf @ShitpostRock2 You really don't know what runet looks like. You can absolutely have large group chats in apps like WhatsApp and Telegram, and Russians do communicate this way, and why wouldn't they, especially when it comes to snuff films and evidence of war crimes?
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@gr77jf @ShitpostRock2 Telegram is not social media. Its a texting app.
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Quote retweets saying “ukrainians are such barbarians”. If you guys saw the shit Russians say on Telegram and VK about the war
People need to fuck off with this fake virtue signalling bullshit, this is what war looks like no matter the side. You are just shown the western side
𝚂𝙽𝙸𝙿𝙴𝙳™@The_Banned_Vids
Feels like a predator playing with prey before the inevitable🇷🇺 Historical Footage shows a Ukrainian FPV drone chasing a lone Russian soldier in the field!
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@Colgrave1322 @GtarisBocchi @ShitpostRock2 OK! Here is an article with embedded videos/GIFs of attacks against civilian targets: The Red Zone Map: documenting Russian drone attacks in Kherson - Centre for Information Resilience
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@Colgrave1322 @ShitpostRock2 Yes, they do, often for money, but sometimes for fun: istories.media/en/stories/202…
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@ShitpostRock2 The Russians don't post their kill footage on social media
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@Colgrave1322 @GtarisBocchi @ShitpostRock2 The requirements for signing a contract with the Russian military have been relaxed significantly as well, likely so that the government has a wider pool of poor people from past the Urals to draw from: doi:10.18449/2024C24
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@Colgrave1322 @GtarisBocchi @ShitpostRock2 Most Russian soldiers are not conscripts. They sign contracts for lucrative pay (bonuses have repeatedly been raised to compensate for lost manpower). To be fair, contract soldiers don't always expect to take part in assaults, but Ukraine can't do anything about that.
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@Colgrave1322 @fuckkiev @GtarisBocchi @ShitpostRock2 < by coming up with mostly outlandish theories about why they had to kill and rape over 1,000 people, or how it didn't happen, or about how it was actually the Ukrainians instead.
For a look at the Telegram situation and incitement to violence: doi.org/10.1080/146235…
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@Colgrave1322 @fuckkiev @GtarisBocchi @ShitpostRock2 Check out the Wikipedia page for bucha massacre and just hit Ctrl+F, not gonna write all that here because it's too long and disgusting
Obv don't take anything that the Ukrainians claim at face value but the Russians aren't helping their own case >
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