• @[email protected]
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    896 months ago

    Seeing all the videos on how russian soldiers are treated by their superiors, was the AFU vehicle just a plausible deniability?

    • @verity_kindleM
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      6 months ago

      That’s a good point. He could have been fragged or set up for a own goal. It probably wouldn’t be difficult. Tell him it’s safe and send him out after a bender?

      • theodewere
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        256 months ago

        what’s important is the fact that both explanations are perfectly plausible given the current state of the Russian military

        • TAG
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          36 months ago

          You forgot the third, less plausible explanation: General was talking shit about Putin, did not realize that Vladimir Vladimirovich is always listening.

      • @[email protected]M
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        166 months ago

        could be also a translation issue as “mine” and “mortar bomb” are the same word in russian

      • Zoidsberg
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        226 months ago

        1847: Mexican–American War: On two occasions, Lieutenant Colonel Braxton Bragg (later a Confederate general) survived an attempt on his life when an artillery shell exploded under his bed.

        Twice?

    • @mindbleach
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      196 months ago

      Yeah, considering how many conscripts are out there in a war their families aren’t permitted to call a war, it seems low.

        • theodewere
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          6 months ago

          does this include the ones that have fallen out of windows and down stairs

          • @[email protected]
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            96 months ago

            Russia really needs to start inveating in elevator infrastructure, what with all these very important people being so gosh darned clumsy.

            • peopleproblems
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              76 months ago

              they have an incredible amount of land. Maybe instead of building vertically, they should focus on single floor buildings.

    • @JohnDClay
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      86 months ago

      I’m glad there are actual consequences for the people at the top. I hope the rest of them realize that too, or are dealt with in the same manner.

  • @[email protected]
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    206 months ago

    What if he was a bad general on purpose so that his troops could blow him up to boost morale?

    • @verity_kindleM
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      36 months ago

      I just want everyone’s bungholes to be safe and have plenty of teepee. It is the only thing that should ever touch your bunghole.

  • @[email protected]
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    116 months ago

    “we all knew Captain Soebel wouldn’t last 5 minutes in combat, so long as members of Easy Company still had live ammunition”

    • Ann Archy
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      36 months ago

      THEY WERE ON A BREAAAAAK!

      I will never forgive that casting error. He’s not even a half decent actor. Barely quarter decent, even.

    • @[email protected]
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      6 months ago

      He tried to commit suicide after the war and ended up just blinding himself. His wife left him, his kids stopped contacting him. He lived in a run down facility for years before his death of malnutrition blind, alone, unloved.

    • @[email protected]
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      76 months ago

      If Russia stops fighting, the war is over and everyone can go on with their lives. If Ukraine stops fighting, Russia will kill more and destroy what is Ukrainian.

      This is worth fighting for. This is worth flushing money to.

    • raktheundead
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      It absolutely is our war; do you think Russia will stop with Ukraine? Do you think it sets a good precedent to once again allow states to annex territories that aren’t legally theirs with impunity?

      It is a moral imperative to ensure that Russia can no longer engage an offensive war within our lifetimes.