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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for letting me know about nERA. Hopefully we'll get to know what this stuff really is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry I deleted my comment because often I receive negative criticism for something like this. We're often too eager to jump on the "Russians stupid" Band waagon but those stupid cunts are still killing Ukrainians daily and don't seem to be breaking anytime soon.

Seems to me we're still underestimating them. There are some in the west getting tired of the war but when we've been told for months and months the Russians are on the brink of breaking and mindless untrained mobiks barely presenting a challenge, the disappointment over the lack of meaningful success on the battlefield becomes even greater.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

IMHO, Russians are a mixed bag - both untrained slave mobiks on the frontlines and some shrewd elite specialists behind. A hundred years ago the Russian Empire also fought in such a way.

Their archaic way of fighting is anyway grotesque nowadays, to say the least. They continue to finance the war by selling oil and gas extracted in their Siberian colonies - but their capabilities are noticeably eroding.