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[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago (21 children)

I'd understand it if this article was written two years ago at the height of "Slava Ukraini hero Zelenskyyyyyy in camo", but why would you assume it'd be easy in 2024?

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 62 points 1 year ago (18 children)

In their defense according to the media it's been a completely one sided war and ukraine is just losing ground because thousands of unarmed Russian soldiers were doing human wave attacks.

You know, the exact same reason nazi Germany said they were losing.

[–] CommunistBear@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There was a reddit-logo thread recently where people were unironically parroting "human wave attacks" and it all just felt so deeply unserious. Like, if Russia really was doing that doesn't that just imply how wildly inept the Ukrainians are if they can't even overcome a tactic that was solved the day the automatic weapon was established?

[–] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

The human wave attacks imho are an exaggeration of a real phenomenon with the Ukraine war. Obviously it’s dumb to think Russia just sends dudes out to get cut down, but it was a legitimate strategy, especially earlier when Wagner was doing a lot of the fighting, to send men out to intentionally draw artillery/small arms fire in order to reveal enemy positions for counter batteries. Any western nation would have done the same thing given the situation.

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