• Quatlicopatlix@feddit.org
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    14 hours ago

    So russia just doesnt value the life of their solders or why dont they use the good kit to just win if they have it and its so good? Why are they fine with so many casualties?

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      9 hours ago

      why dont they use the good kit to just win

      The good kit is nuclear annihilation of US bases in Germany/UK. Russia is accepting theater plot of winning slowly as its economy booms from military production increases. Russia is participating in global corruption by not acting decisively on NATO’s war against it.

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        8 hours ago

        Lol natos war against it? Who attacked again? I thought they had a bunch of tanks and other stuff or is it just nukes now?

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          7 hours ago

          Who attacked? Nato attacked

          2014 nuland (usa) coup (undemocratic ofc) with subsequent systematic genocide of russian-speaking ukrainians

          +bojo sabotaging peace talks makes britain responsible for the war

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      14 hours ago

      Things like Oreshnik don’t make sense to use at scale against Ukraine, as an example, but would be valuable in fighting against NATO countries that are further away. Other tools like the stock of T90s they have are potentially being stockpiled for a later, large-scale offensive after wearing down Ukrainian troops and supplies, or for fighting against a NATO power.

      An alternative is asking why the US doesn’t approach Yemen with aircraft carriers, and the answer is because of the economics of war. It’s far too much economic risk to bring your better tools out when cheaper tools are effective.

      There’s also the fact that Ukraine publishes inflated numbers of casualties, the real casualty numbers aren’t as high as Kiev reports. I imagine Russia is underplaying it too, which means the real answer is likely somewhere in the middle.

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        11 hours ago

        But the cheap tools arent really effective are they? The 2 day offensive iss at how many years now? Russian refineries are being struck deep inside their country and russia has lost valuable weapons when olayna was attacked. Russia is in full war economy mode. While fighting against ukraine, so i dont see how the cheap tools are effective. If a little of russias claimed military power was true they would have just invaded ukraine in a few days like they said. Whats happening doesnt make any economic sense for russsia. The amount of monetary damade is so big that not using the big guns to save money is just dumb.

        The ssoviet union was always overselling its military capabilety from what russia has accomplished to this point it really seems like they are still doing that.

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          8 hours ago

          They may be marginally less effective, but it isn’t a linear scale, and often times millitary contracts end up being overly complex and thus less efficient than cheap drones. That’s why Yemen is so effective.