• luciferofastora@feddit.org
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          War against a stronger enemy is an exercise in allotting your military resources where they’re most effective.

          Officials are easier to replace than infrastructure, unless you manage to whittle the enemy supply of manpower, experience and training capabilities down so far that candidates are similarly scarce.

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            On the other hand, the optics of being unable to protect the literal military parade… Might change some Russians’ minds about how good and strong of a leader Putin is.

            Either one works, really.

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              Then drop something aimed at the will of the people, not the military power. Letters from captured Russian troops to their loved ones, candy for the children, propaganda…

              Getting it all past their air defense sends a message to those who care about military strength. The letters may show that you’re treating prisoners well (even if they don’t all make it to their recipients). The candy… well, happy children are probably the most benevolent kind of psychological warfare.

              Collateral civilian damage will be used to galvanise resistance. Hence, violent strikes may end up backfiring (but don’t have to - nothing in war is ever quite certain).

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            I mean, the amount of competence in the Russian military was clearly already low.

            I cant imagine how useless any replacements will be.

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        hey let’s not add more micro plastics to the environment please. Just use old fashioned munitions like a normal army.

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            I can only imagine what a horror show it would be if glitter was tiny flakes of glass. Makes fiberglass pale in comparison.

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              Sand is basically glitter, no? It is silica (glass), yet not sharp or irritative. In fact, there are pulverizing machines that turn glass bottles to sand that is nearly indistinguishable from beach sand. Just crush it a bit more? I donno. I’m not a glitteroligist

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                I’m not a glitterologist

                Don’t go to school for it, either. I’m $3.50 in debt and that was before this dumbfuck war! I’ll never recover financially for that degree and only Mark Rober will hire me. I CAN’T WORK FOR PEANUTS, MARK, I HAVE LOANS!

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                  I hear there’s a lady that lives in on a lake that’ll help you take care of that $3.50.

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          You are concerned aboutplastics when refineries are on fire?

          I am not happy for the environment but I see it as a justificable action by Ukraine.

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            The world is drowning in plastic, like 10 years ago 90% of all plastic ever produced had been made in the preceding 10 years, and massive new plastic production has come online since then. Like this is a big problem it’s not going away either. Recycling is worse than landfilling, they have Untold innumerable additives that are toxic and in recycling they get released into the air, and the Recycled product is worthless as well, they do it to say they did it because the pr campaign to foist the blame on to Consumers from the 90s or whenever it started.

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              Im not proplastic… it just not worth raising on a hypothetical relating to an active invasion and war for survival.

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                That is true, it’s neither here nor there in regards to this war for survival, this war to refuse to be enslaved by the Imperial Rus.

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            Yes. For example if we have 10 million tons of crude oil in the ocean, it would still be bad to add another 10 tons into the ocean. War is bad enough for the environment, lets focus on killing the bad guys not destroying European nature.

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              Yeah Im all for the environment, just dont think having a view on a hypothetical prank during a war is necessary. It would have been easier to suggest confetti as an alternative and move on.