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remaog42
Ukraine has full access to NATO reconnaissance. Dont underastimate its value.
FarQuad
Putin: " I want a great military!" Putin's Mom: "You have a great military at home."
88wut
Yeah but nukes
Shoutrr
the russian federation is going down for the exact same reason chernobyl happened: yes men and corruption
casbott
All those YouTube military analysis channels are going to have to redo their "if Russia fights a war with…" videos. They're so overestimated
Swindle65
This is why you don't surround yourself with Yes Men who will tell you the military is up to date, in fear of you sending them to the gulag.
Vendura
The Red Army =/= The Russian Army
invisibulman
It's kids. Doesn't matter who is fighting or when in history. It's always just kids, poor people, and a few assholes playing soldier.
ICollectReactionGifs
big uptick of those russian memes on yt shorts.... its annoying
AngryQueefNoises
Even the TALIBAN were like "uh can you guys like, talk about peace maybe?" you know it's bad when the mf TALIBAN are asking.
prs722
"I am Heavy weapons guy." -Heavy
wjfloater3000
THEY'RE STILL LIVING ON THEIR WW2 REPRETATION
proracing53
ActionJohnnie
EssentialLurker
I'm pretty sure the story would be different if the russian army was not fighting friends and family...
MmmYesShallowAndPedantic
I’ve been wondering for several days if Russia’s nuclear deterrent is at this point 85%-90% fictional (non-functioning) or 100% fictional
MmmYesShallowAndPedantic
Even 10% is enough to have deterrent value, but no WAY do they have thousands of perfectly maintained fully functional nuclear weapons
Sircowdog1
I feel like from what I've seen(possibly propaganda), many the Russian army doesn't even want to be in that war.
Munchman347
The 'Professional' Army is keeping Puta-in in power. He's not gonna risk their support in a BS war. So he sends teachers and shopkeepers...
bondance
I always thought we were afraid of the nukes, rather than the ground army itself?
GadenKerensky
Suddenly, Modern Warfare 2 seems even less plausible.
Fireninja404
Russia has all able bodied men age 18-27 serve for a year, so the front line is being filled with people who don't even want to fight
CraftyGiant
It's also unconstitutional to send them outside the national border, so they aren't real happy with being told to invade anywhere.
CraftyGiant
I'm referring specifically to conscripts / required service.
randnum
Spetsnaz looks like the left. Putin gutted the rest of the military.
somerandomhooman
TBH the 2nd dude scares me more!
lightfantasticem172
I know it's all in morbid good humor. But that "army" everyone keeps mocking is full of teenagers fighting a battle they didn't know was
iquestionthepinappleeveryday
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JollyJokzr
Luckily, some of them are smart enough to just leave their tanks and walk away
KingAardvark1st
The only losses I celebrate are heavy ordinance; arty, tanks, Su-25, etc. Feel for the soldiers and families, those machines need to cease.
DrDred
Exactly.
Katz00
Thank you. People tend to forget this.
RageAgainstTheCoffeeMachine
iquestionthepinappleeveryday
Yea, Black Sabbath has a whole song about it.
QuamvisSintSubAqua
Which one?
iquestionthepinappleeveryday
War pigs
Raoin
Welcome to the majority of wars ever.
newsguycraigevans
Yep. Can anyone name a war where one side was not young men?
newsguycraigevans
Yes. Yes. The emus.
lightfantasticem172
Happening before it was too late. That and no matter what, they're also someone's son/daughter/partner/relative. People are treating
bippityboppitybuttsex
Then my recommendation is to drop weapons and ammo and walk toward Ukranian lines or a neutral nation and ask for asylum.
lightfantasticem172
Well..I personally won't do that, I'm from the UK. But isn't that what most of the Russian soldiers are doing..? At the least surrendering
bippityboppitybuttsex
No where near enough... plenty of Russian soldiers have no problem mortaring civilians.
lightfantasticem172
This horrible situation and the "sides" with all the wrong emotions. No one wants this war. Apart from one fucked up guy pulling the strings
lightfantasticem172
And putting the fear of death or something much worse in the eyes of the citizens of Russia.
SensualMeatball
I lose sympathy with every civilian bombed. :(
TristanISuppose
It’s horrible for sure. But that’s like the rest of the world losing sympathy for broke american teens who just want a college education.
londonosierra2000
The only dumb Russian is Putin.
michaelfire
it's pretty clear in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
riduckulous
Russians are a pretty motivated people if you can convince em. It's just such a blatantly stupid invasion that even with all the propaganda
riduckulous
They are seeing through the bullshit. Russians are just deserting everywhere, and half just don't believe in it. Bad conditions for invasion
Rumoh
man It's interesting still have this "it's a trap right?" feeling but it really looks like they fucked up big time.
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cliffbarsancereal
Yeah me too...like a trick/trap...but maybe not. I agree
RenegadeSci
They fucked up and they're sitting on 6000 nukes with at least 200-500 that still work, in the best-case scenario, to kill 500 million?
bigstop
i mean russia still has really really big nukes, but putin wants the land so he won't use them, YET
bigstop
which is the scariest thing about this, one nuke and we might have nuclear warfare across the world
VaultGirl69
Especially seeing people wanting their country to join with troops. He wants it. It's bait. His only win is walling in Russia.
urnotwrongurjustnasshole
https://youtu.be/b4wRdoWpw0w
JaxJamesTheTenaciousTurtle
Yeah imgur posts really make it seems like Russia is about to collapse, but I doubt that's reality. Imgur is not a news site
Chromeshack
That's what happens when you send in tanks without troop support.
SalmonTheWise
What baffles me is that this is how they fucked up first Chechen war, defeat that caused regime change from Boris Yeltsin to Putin.
GrumpyOldMillennial
It's also what happens when you send an army without logistics. Which they did.
SatanicSpirals
Wendover Productions did an amazing analysis over this. He usually analyzes things like the Butter Barrier.
ThisIsYourLifeNow
Thanks for posting the link! /s here you go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4wRdoWpw0w
SatanicSpirals
If people can't search "Wendover Productions" on YT I doubt they are interested in watching a 20 minute video.
TiredSnowball
There can't be full support attacking Ukraine. It's like a forced home invasion on your cousins, most don't want to be there.
montyman185
I've been reading and listening to some stuff, and apparently Russia has a history of being great at defense, and lackluster at offense.
newsguycraigevans
Easy to defend when your country is gigantic with vast stretches of nothing.
montyman185
Not even that, but motivation wise, the soldiers tend not to care about their invasions
endlessseaofstars
Russia still has the numbers by far. Tanks, planes, ships, equipment, and soldiers. Long term odds are still not in Ukraine's favor.
casbott
But how much of it is actually working equipment? Most of the stuff that's there appears to be missile bait. And Ukraine keeps getting aid.
newsguycraigevans
Russia was supposed to roll in and Ukraine government would collapse in a couple of days. Did not happened. The longer this goes the more
newsguycraigevans
difficult it will be on both countries. Time favors the defenders not the invaders.
iConfirmAnythingAndEverything
Eh, the longer this goes on, the higher the chances Ukraine falls. Inevitable, really... Although you do have to ask, at what cost?
iConfirmAnythingAndEverything
Russia takes Ukraine, installs a pro Rus govt and occupies rebellious hot spots? No way they take the country and hold it for long
ZebAsiz
Apparently it's all due to the corruption along the chain of command and not wanting to "look bad" by reporting problems/lack of readyness.
C0mmanderX
You mean how no one told Hitler about dday or how close the allies were to Berlin? Sounds about right
SomethingsNotWorking
Want to bet he only has a bunch of empty silos because the weapons were already sold off.
phdMuffSlitGash
Yeah, what's the worst thing that could happen if we lose that bet, right. Something is clearly not working...
forResearchPurposesOnly
Definitely still unnerving. Like they just sent in cannon fodder and old equipment. Is this their A-game?
sakasiru
Don't they still have parts of their troops in Syria? Maybe that's where the A-game is.
shamusaran
All of Russia's impressive stuff is all for parades and intimidation. Everything else is old as the USSR, if not older.
swedeonamoose
they got like what 200-300 mbt's that could be considered truly modern
PassiveAggressiveHotdogVendor
Define “modern.” They have plenty of modernized and upgraded T-72s, T-80s, and T-90s.
swedeonamoose
compareable to M1A2/leopard 2A6 standard numbers, many of the modernized russian tanks might be around 2A5 standard.
FetaForMoses
Hm their A-Game is literally their A-Game if you catch my drift…
adamk147
I feel like weather patterns would allow them to catch their own drift
PicassoCT
Putin is destroying the duct-tape that is holding half the russian state together. The fear of the russian army.
Beardologist
The cops seem pretty well armed and supplied tho.
AnythingMuchShorter
It reminds me of Iron Man where Hammer talks up that shell as the ultimate weapon, then Rhodes uses it and it just bounces off on the floor.
battery1979
Hammer Tech?
Desh23
Man i really wish this was the complete truth but they are advancing. Ukrainians are making them bleed for every inch but they’re creeping
confanity
I dunno; I'm pretty sure the Russian people know he's 100% willing to raze their towns too, and they don't have Ukraine to defend them.
Zuegma197777
Maybe they dont even have weapons of mass destruction. N thier hacker army is just 3 nerds.
IllegalAlienFromOuterSpace
spit and duct tape. Not the premium duct tape either, its the great value brand
SirWadeWilson
Watching the slow collapse of the Russian kleptocracy
Hoptimonium
Sadly Republicans are hell bent on turning the US into an oligarchy just like Russia.
LurkerOfDarkness
Fast forward please.
Kuiper
I mean, saying it's slow is very generous.
BeardedAssassin
It's not collapsing fast enough. People are still dying
SlutAtNight
Do you think the population is hearing how poorly the military is doing with all the media blackouts, and Poutin's propoganda?
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losersmanual
Don't blindly trust a few pictures.
Scylia
Considering Russian influencers are commenting on it, often at their own risk... yea actually.
MrTay
A lot are. From what I understand from friends. It’s like the US and Trump. Older gen that watches Fox News or in this case RT are 1/
MrTay
Really deluded but most of the younger generations are not. I also think it’s much more clear because of the dramatic changes in people’s 2/
MrTay
Lives. It becomes hard to hide the dead and drastic quality of life shifts that are happening. Also Russians are berry closely related to 3/
MrTay
Ukrainians. Kind of hard to deny when your aunts on the phone with you telling you their being bombed. It’s closer to a civil war.
battery1979
Don't besmirch poutine like that. It's delicious.
SlutAtNight
Ah! I had it on my mind because I was going out for some today. It was delicious ofc
MicentennialBan
The only other half is nukes
casbott
If it wasn't for the Nukes, any medium sized Western Power with a all volunteer professional military could beat Russia.
LordElups
If they still work
IlluminaBlade
Bet a dollar only 10% are actually in usable condition.
filben7
I bet they have less than a dozen functional nukes.
nclu
So they can only destroy the Earth 60x
filben7
Over 1000 nukes have been set off already, settle down, the old MAD from the 70s/80s was complete fiction.
Treblaine
That's still hundreds of nuclear weapons, almost all of them at least ten times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb.
PicassoCT
9% not bought off by other countries paying better then the russian state?
ChunkyChewbacca
I think that would be plenty to mess things up for everyone pretty badly. Especially since, if they launch, so does everyone else.
Mxlespxles
BlackCatCasper
Don’t the US ones still run on giant floppy discs?
ImpliedConsent
That would still mean they have more nukes than anyone but the US. At 10% it would be roughly twice what China has.
OmnipotentBeing
Russia has 4,497 potentially usable nukes. That's about 450 that would detonate if your math is right. 100 is enough for nuclear winter.
iquestionthepinappleeveryday
Pretty sure it will only take one for the world shit show to get really fucking bad really fucking fast.
ztygs
Something something patroling the Mojave.
leperoutcastunclean
100 of what sizes? What total tonnage?
OmnipotentBeing
The burning fires afterwards cause the dim in sunlight from particulates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter#Recent_modeling