but different from being corrupt
Yes, but they already mentioned the commander was Russian in the article.
InvertedParallax
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I get it, I just didn't like the parallel, the NKVD were absolute monsters, nightmares in human form, the CIA has a LOT of faults, but outside of Pinochet and a few things in the 80s, I can't see them on the same level at all.
Sturmtruppen was the German word for 'assault troops', much like sturmgewehr is their word for 'assault rifle' which was adopted by everyone else.
It means troops to storm a position, the heaviest troops for assaults.
We'd call them assault forces, or honestly, just marines (amphibious assault corps).
Hitler had a bunch of paramilitary followers (think Trump and his Jan 6 crowd) called the sturmabteilingen (sp?), which translated to storm troopers, because he thought it sounded impressive.
He later betrayed and murdered them, to curry favor with the army, which is so Hitler.
So no change for Russia then.
Yeah, no, you're right on here.
No better than they deserve.
The worst enemy of Russia has always been Russia.
the NKVD was the predecessor to the KGB, much like how the US had their OSS more or less turn into the CIA.
Whoooa-ooaahh!!!
That's, that's not even a comparison you can make, that's insane!
The nkvd was a monstrous organization that controlled every aspect of Soviet civilian life, it was Stalin's personal enforcement arm, responsible for all the purges and executions.
It was led by this fucker here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavrentiy_Beria
The hundreds of underaged girls he raped and tortured are literally the least of his crimes.
Comparing the nkvd with the Cia? I don't even understand how you can try.
The KGB exists because the nkvd was utterly out of control under Stalin and they wanted something a bit less insane. Still a brutal arm of state security, but the NKVD was schizophrenic serial killers on meth.
The US has never, EVER in our history had anything that can remotely compare to either. The Cia specifically operates against foreign targets, there were very few exceptions to that rule.
An Allegedly Corrupt Russian Commander
Yeah this title was written by the department of redundancy department.
You're delusional, they'll defend it by saying 'the Chinese Communist Party has lifted blah blah blah people out of poverty!!!' notwithstanding it's the major reason they were in poverty, Taiwan had become one of the richest and freest countries decades earlier, and they didn't murder 50m+ of their own citizens for lulz.
So long as the CCP isn't murdering them at that exact moment, they're 100% on board because their whole life is built around everything the west doing must be evil (closer to 40/60 imho, but that beats the 80/20 of the ccp).
I'm fine with the former, the latter should be "no derivatives that attempt to relicense for commercial use".
Saying "no forks" is as anti-OSS as you get really, short of hiding all the code under your mattress ala MSFT.
So, the reason the program has been so successful for decades is because it’s being run by morons?
First, it hasn't been successful in the 2000s and 2010s.
Secondly, it's been "successful" if you want to call it, because we have UNIMAGINABLE RESOURCES!!!
We have an infinite ammo hack enabled, and we always have wall-hacking from all our fused intel sources.
The problem is, we're excellent at killing anyone we want to kill, that's trivial for us, what isn't easy is getting people to actually want to like us after we've just killed people they know.
Also a lot of our trouble in the middle east was encouraged by Iran and even Russia, those RPGs came from somewhere.
That is literally the motif of this whole ~~war~~ special military asskicking.