• AA5B@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    I’m cheering for the FSB getting pantsired.

    I haven’t read anything lately about replacement rate for pantsirs but

    • they’re expensive
    • probably hard for Russia to replace
    • make Ukraine attacks more difficult

    Every anti-aircraft asset gone is a good step in reducing russias ability to keep the war going

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      I think it’s a reasonable position to both dislike violence and support it in certain conditions.

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    That’s the way to do it, take out the HQ, leadership, hard to replace high level personnel, and equipment. It will take time to establish a new HQ, get people sorted out, install new gear, figure out what Intel is lost, and get back on solid ground.

    Meanwhile, Ukraine can keep pounding. I’ve heard that arms manufacturers have made deals with Ukraine to test their gear in battlefield conditions, so they are getting to play with cutting edge gear against Russia’s second rate gear that was built by their corrupt government.

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    Well, that sounds like a good start.

    It’s a good thing if they continue to degrade Russian air defenses. More drones coming after Puto!

    Let’s hope that, along the way, they take out a few troll farms, too, and do us all a favor.

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    Oh my god, I get that they would’ve later perpetrated death and fear to innocents…

    Why am I internally “cheering” for 100 dead people.

    Fuck this shit

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      Hundreds of people die every day for far stupider and much less fair reasons, like pedestrians murdered by car drivers.

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      For me, I’m not “cheering” for 100 dead people, but for the weakening of the agressor’s army. It sucks so much that it is by death, but that is war… war sucks and shouldn’t happen, but here we are.

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        Where they, though? People drafted and sent to the front generally have few options. I get that people dying is what happens in war but casting all individual soldiers of one side as “bad”, of the other as “good” just serves to dehumanise people and excuse atrocities.

        This was a legitimate military target, but I don’t think anyone should cheer about a hundred dead people.

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          Of course we should. Russians elected their leaders, followed and cheered them for decades and supported most of their decisions including this war. Don’t get fooled into thinking Russians are just poor, innocent people send to war by their mad leader. It’s an underdeveloped, sick country that uses violence and terror to get what they want. They got what they deserved.

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            Demonising a whole people like this is in itself wrong.

            What is your supposed solution, then? How does one deal with tens of millions of people who are supposedly evil and wrong?

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              You take away their ability to harm others. In this case you destroy their ability to wage wars. You sanction the shit out of them so that they don’t have enough money to arm themselves and you destroy whatever military they have now. No one is proposing extermination, they just have to become harmless. When they are civilized enough to re-join the international community they are welcomed to do so.

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                And what’s the difference between that and the approach that was taken with Germany after WW1, which was a contribution to the rise of the Nazis?

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                  After WW1 Germany was made the scapegoat for the whole war because they lost. It’s not like they actually had aggressively started WW1 but they were treated as if, which was way too much and german people felt treated unfairly rightfully.

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                I would argue that those sanctions, if general, shouldn’t include necessities like food or medicine. Also, I feel that sanctions against specific figures in the government might be relatively effective (many countries are doing this already). Make it difficult to enjoy the fortune they stole from their people.

                I also don’t like the idea of sanctions that aren’t based on specific/ongoing actions, but the existence of a certain government/regime, though I see where you are coming from.

                I would also still argue that the Russian people chose that government, back when they did choose, because they didn’t see many other options, and keeping them in perpetual destitution long term isn’t likely to change that.

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      Ill cheer externally for 100 dead American soldiers if it makes you feel better.

      Thugs serving a pedophile tyrant deserve no sympathy.

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    There’s a Gilbert and Sullivan style song in this headline somewhere:

    Find the Kherson Oblast group and you could kill a hundred troops

    Hundred troops?

    Hundred troops. Kill them while they eat their soup

    Now call the corp’ral on the phone and and have him load up fifty drones

    Fifty drones!?

    Fifty drones!! And aim them for the Russian domes

    Etc

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      Seeing as the claimed casualty/equipment destruction numbers published daily have been pretty accurate, I’m going to believe them until proven otherwise.

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        Care to share your sources? AFAIK, independent verification of the ongoing war is extremely difficult. From Wikipedia (hope you won’t accuse Wikipedia of being Russian propaganda):

        and between 400,000 and 1.5 million estimated casualties (killed and wounded) during the Russian invasion of Ukraine from 24 February 2022 to November 2025

        […]Initially, the known number of Ukrainian military casualties varied widely due to the Ukrainian Army drastically understating its casualties

        […]Ukrainian estimates of Russian military losses tended to be high, while Russian estimates of their own losses tended to be low

        […]According to a researcher at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University in Sweden, regarding Russian military losses, Ukraine engaged in a misinformation campaign to boost morale and Western media were generally happy to accept its claims, while Russia was “probably” downplaying its own casualties. Ukraine also tended to be quieter about its own military fatalities.

        […] Information on military casualties is a state secret in both Russia and Ukraine, while the Ukrainian government has been especially secretive, restricting access to demographic data that could be used to estimate its losses. In addition, Western intelligence agencies have been reluctant to disclose their internal calculations of Ukrainian military casualties for fear of undermining an ally. American officials previously said that Ukraine withholds this information from even its closest allies.

        The number of civilian and military deaths is impossible to determine with precision.

        This is not exclusive to Ukraine of course, Russia very much lies about casualties as a form of information war, my point is that taking either side’s claims seriously is incredibly media-illiterate.

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        No need for the homophobia, we’re all leftists here. You can celebrate military victories of Ukraine if you so wish, I’d just recommend being careful about believing so lightly the wartime propaganda from either side.

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      You gotta do the left side of the equation first. They didn’t use any parentheses in the title though. Here, this might help.

      (Killing + Injuring) =~ 100

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        Well that’s a weird thing to do, to add them up like that. Usually you say how many were killed as well as how many were injured, separately.