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[–] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No shit. Western training and equipment is not fit for purpose. Acting as a colonial cop by bombing with impunity ≠ attacking the strongest defensive lines of the 21st century. All their wunderwaffe just gets blown up by mines or drones.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 25 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Cannot wait to see how well this comment ages. All the Hexabear stuff is just comedy gold in the long run. Thank you for spending your life force creating it.

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 61 points 1 year ago

Cannot wait to see how well this comment ages. All the Hexabear stuff is just comedy gold in the long run. Thank you for spending your life force creating it.

Can't imagine thinking commentary, wrong or right, about brutal trench warfare, could be comedy gold.

[–] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, Ukraine is really going to retake those two oblasts and Crimea. It will all be worth all the hundreds of thousands of lives thrown into the meatgrinder instead of honoring two ceasefires or negotiating a new ceasefire when that happens.

jokerfied

Real Hitler in his bunker energy, except instead of Hitler youre a nazi in some other country not directly involved coping about how Germany can still win.

[–] Project_Straylight@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 6 points 1 year ago (7 children)
[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They did stop. How do you think defensive lines are dug?

[–] ennemi@hexbear.net 58 points 1 year ago

Terminal Marvelbrain

[–] rubpoll@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago

Zelenksy tried to surrender. Boris Johnson derailed those talks to keep the war going.

[–] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They've literally constantly offered offramps toward de-escalation. Two negotiated ceasefires were broken by ukrainian state backed militias in donbass before the war started.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But I've been told the Russian army is out of missiles and teetering on the brink of collapse again, now you're saying they're simultaneously a force capable of posing a realistic threat of invasion to...uh, the entire rest of the planet, apparently? thinkin-lenin

[–] RonJonGuaido@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

go fight them then.

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

You should volunteer if you think it's this important to fight Russia

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 55 points 1 year ago

Thousands of dead for no good reason is "comedy gold"?

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago
[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

peppino-holy-shit the emoji picker just got ten feet longer

[–] Annakah69@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

The people telling you Ukraine is winning are lying to you. They don't believe it. Ukraine doesn't have enough equipment or enough soldiers.

The Wests only hope is a Russian coup. They'll force every Ukrainian they can to die to try and make this happen. You cheer this death march on from the sidelines.

If you actually give a shit, go fight for Ukraine. If you don't have the courage to die with them, then you have no right to advocate for continuing this war.

[–] Gelamzer@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

How is the ghost of Kiev doing

[–] Aquilae@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago

Lmao 4 months in and this comment already didn't age very well, with even outlets like NYT starting to report the truth about Ukraine's offensives going terribly.

Also, I wouldn't call thousands of people dying for meaningless western imperialism/NATO expansion "comedy gold"