• Barx [none/use name]
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    783 months ago

    We are not being strategic. A fairly senile president that gives accidentally honest answers is an absolute opportunity for any left movement.

    Get him to spill all the beans on everything. Black site locations. Best military bases to hit in the event of nuclear war. How fucked Europe is under the current US strategy. Naked hatred for every single Chinese person. Remind him of school bussing and he will probably take you right back to 70s Strom Thurmond. Fish for the various congressperson crimes he definitely knows about. Get him to insult every Democrat in their “bench”, thin as it is. Especially Buttigief, lmao. Ask him why Buttigieg isn’t fixing Boeing.

    Such a goldmine. Get in there, nerds. Demand “the discourse”.

    • robotElder2 [he/him, it/its]
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      433 months ago

      The problem is that his willingness to spill useful secrets is inversely proportional to his ability to recall them accurately.

      • @jonne@infosec.pub
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        233 months ago

        And they’re barely letting him do interviews/press conferences. Remember when they were giving Trump shit for doing that?

      • Barx [none/use name]
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        203 months ago

        We’ve gotta roll those dice. 60% of the time we get Corn Pop. 40% we get the true nature of the blue helmets in Syria.

      • Barx [none/use name]
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        203 months ago

        Beans are the true sustenance of every proletarian. It cannot stop at frijoles negro nor baked beans. We must embrace doujiang and all its products.

        Have you made and drank soy milk from scratch lately? Mao is looking down upon you, comrade. Is he smiling?

  • Yor [she/her]
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    323 months ago

    the almighty slava narrative collapsing in that moment must have been devastating for the true believers

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    “losses based on data from rural towns”

    What does this mean and how would someone be able to verify these numbers?

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      maybe. the former Ukraine Internal Affairs Minister and Prosecutor General said in January that Ukraine had sustained 500k casualties. western media is all over the place ofc, some outlets say 500k is actually the number of Russian casualties, some say 500k is the total number of casualties on both sides. we wont have any solid numbers until well after the conflict ends

      • keepcarrot [she/her]
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        53 months ago

        Also, “casualties” refers to wounded, missing, and captured as well as killed, so who knows what “losses” refer to

    • aname
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      Pretty sure it was 1.8 million. My neighbors dog told me

  • 2812481591 [any, it/its]
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    I’ve seen projects that count the confirmed KIA by name from social media commemorations,. and they arrive at like Russian 72k KIA, 68k Ukranian KIA. Russia does not have a 10:1 casualty rate.

    Edit: I don’t know why we shouldn’t accept the named KIA projects as being an effective lower-bound estimate of those killed. if we accept around 70,000 Russians have died, and assume that there are significantly more russian non-KIA casualties than KIA, then not even the Russian MOD is claiming numbers that would be 10:1. Does the Slava Rossiya crew on Hexbear think there are over 2 million Ukranian casualties? in Febuary, Russia said 444,000 Ukranians killed and wounded.

    • Voidance [none/use name]
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      They have air superiority and are fighting an army that’s obsessed with launching hopeless offensives and been reduced to forcibly conscripting 50 years olds, I would totally believe a 10:1 ratio

      • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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        233 months ago

        We also know:

        1. Ukraine has been getting slowly pushed back
        2. Ukraine’s counteroffensive failed

        Abandoning a position because you can’t hold it usually involves lots of deaths. Similarly, moving on a position but getting pushed back seems like it would aldo be pretty costly.

        I’m skeptical of 10:1, but I’m also skeptical of 1:1.

  • TheREalDonaldTrump [he/him]
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    33 months ago

    If it were me the war never would have started! Putin knows better than to mess with me!! With sleepy Joe at the wheel Putin and Xi and Kim can walk all over America!!!