• @[email protected]
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    11228 days ago

    I’ve been using this quote for a while now.

    The history of Russia can be broken down into five little words.

    “And then…it got worse.”

    • @[email protected]
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      3328 days ago

      They have spent the last century 1 step forward; two back. Which it’s hard to say if it’s an improvement on the century prior or not.

      • @sugar_in_your_tea
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        328 days ago

        They really should just turn around and embrace being backwards, it would really make it all simpler.

  • @[email protected]
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    28 days ago

    well not 3rd but 2nd since Shoigu has decided to enter the russian guiness book by becoming the best at russian national sport: window skydiving without parachute

    • @verity_kindleM
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      2828 days ago

      Well,there’s Wagner, who are probably loitering on a street corner, kicking dogs and watching Seagal clips on their phones.

      • @[email protected]
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        2228 days ago

        Wagner was moved under the Russian regular military after the failed coop. So they’re technically one entity now. (Not that there was ever much of a difference, it’s just less now. )

        • Zoidsberg
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          2328 days ago

          Nothing worse than a failed coop. Chickens everywhere.

          • @[email protected]
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            328 days ago

            The command structure is what determines separate forces, do the Chechen forces answer to the same command structures? I know from US coalition operations that the foreign forces answer to their own NCO/Officer Corp. Typically, through to the region level and have their own rules and regulations separate from the other nation forces, often operating from their own bases and really only coordinating at the colonel level or above.

            To my understanding, the Chechen forces are barely allowed their own officers at the unit level, much less anything higher. I’m far from an expert on that, though, and may be wrong. If true, I wouldn’t separate them, if false, maybe, as much as the separation of NATO forces in Afghanistan.