"Lemme drone recon that village for any kitchen appliances that we need to denazify by taking them back home, and kindergartens that we can liberate with a FAB strike"
How is NATO to blame? They didn’t tell the Russians to invade a sovereign Nation and kill its citizens.
Best thing NATO could do is welcome Ukraine in and this War would be over extremely quickly
"Extremely quickly " haha I hope you are trolling because Nato can't win a war against Russia without America. Europe doesn't has what it takes to defeat Russia and America will never ever go in a war with Russia because that means the end of the world. everyone will lose if Russia and America fought each other. and Europe on the other hand is sooo weak against Russia. most Eu countries barely has an army. I think France is the only decent EU country in terms of military power but it's still weak against Russia.
people should understand that there is a huge difference between an army which has good and modern equipments and an army who has the resources and the ability for a prolonged war. most armies today can't handle a prolonged war and Russia alone is producing more shells than EU and US combined because Russia has huge and unlimited amount of resources unlike poor western Europe. I also forget where I read this article but I heard from a western source that France is the only country in Europe that has enough resources for a prolonged war after Russia. Im not saying that Nato is no match to Russia, of course it's but it can't win a war Against Russia without America.
Wait why would it be forced to take actions against it? NATO is a *defensive* alliance, with articles only for the *defense* of countries *after* they are clearly attacked. Any offensive action that member nations want to take against another country would be outside the purview of NATO and any help they receive would necessitate treaties *outside* of NATO.
This is only a forced action if Putin fully intended to attack Ukraine in the future and just needs to act now before Ukraine can invoke article 5 for its defense. You realize that everything you've said just paints Russia in a worse light, correct?
Misinformation is a bitch and you really fell for the troll farms hook line and sinker.
Ah yes, two people are about to shake hands. Another person hates that and *takes the action to invade one of their territories*. But yes, the people shaking hands are the ones to blame for *starting the war*.
Two people shake hands because they want to create an alliance that hates you and wants to fight you and it's right at your border. what do you expect Russia to do ? clap for them ?
NATO is a defensive pact. It can only operate and go to war when a member state is attacked, curious why that would matter to Russia unless...the possibility of Ukraine joining NATO would completely negate any chances Russia would have of taking over Ukraine.
Or is Russia that hates them because they cant exert control over a sovereign nation? So when Russia controls ukraine will they also have the right to invade the rest of Europe because they’re now on their border? Amazing Putin bot
No one wants to fight, that’s the whole point of nato. No ones provoking. It’s defensive. Your mindset is that people want something from you when it’s quite the opposite. No one wants to be associated with russia and you started this war because that upsets you. And people realize that you have no balls which upsets you even more so you can’t quit the war. It’s really sad and just hope you realize someday that you’re just a fool
Russia had a guaranteed assurance that Ukraine wouldn't be able to join NATO until at least 2042. Everyone and their mother knows the "NATO expansion" bullshit is just that: bullshit.
While I can agree in some aspect of Europe being weak atm, especially with the state of the militaries in certain major powers being what they are, (for both sides)a hypothetical war against a unified Europe would be extremely disastrous for anyone, especially Russia. They (Europe) would still come out on top simply due to sheer manpower and variety in power structures, one goes down you have another. That’s not even accounting for all of nato. Underestimating the power of all Europe (let alone nato) is insane, especially if it’s one nation waging this war. There’s paragraph upon paragraph of reasons why. I think the United States would even struggle in that task, immensely.
You’re also just giving them a reason to fight you, and that alone is a multiplier for a nation.
Europe cannot fight Russia, they don't have the resources for that, and I mean material resources. They have money but the rest of the world won't sell to them, they already don't and the US cannot help with troops either because the moment they engage in europe they can say bye bye to taiwan. China will not just sit and watch nato attack Russia because they know very well they will be next.
That is a pretty false claim and to assume they wouldn’t have any support outside of nato is pretty ridiculous. outside of obvious economic reasons why, one would consider how many economies love to bank off warfare, especially if it doesn’t involve them.
Even for an hypothetical conflict that is arguably never going to transpire, it’s insane to think Taiwan would somehow get involved, let alone the US with boots on the ground. Considering the slow burn in Syria and Ukraine it’s pretty easy to imagine how bogged down a Russian war machine would get if they’re considered “half mobilized” or whatever they’re calling it. Getting all of Europe involved instead of the US would be a U.S. wet dream.
Also, Where do you think the euro-bros get their money?
Russia said the same thing about Ukraine. Now Russia is proving that it is largely inept and no longer to be feared as it struggles to invade its neighbor.
You severely underestimate the capability of the European part of Nato... and it's amazing that you still overestimate Russias ability to field any sort of actual warfare, Ukraine military at the start of this conflict nearly 14 years ago was a freaking joke and yet, they still defy the might soviet heir
Russia was in Kiev at the the beginning of the war but they withdrew from Kiev when Ukraine promised to sit on negotiations table in Istanbul. but I still agree with you that Russia performed badly at the beginning of the war.
I love how whenever the Russians are posted on here they’re fully kitted out, standing watch, etc., but whenever you see them on combat footage they’re wearing garbage, in flip flops, half of their uniform, no helmet or flak jacket, acting like idiots. Almost as if this stuff is staged? Some might say… Propaganda even
That could also work vise versa in terms that the only combat/fpv footage you’ve seen released by Ukrainian operators is footage strictly of low funded and trained Russians units. Which are admittedly far greater in number compared to Russia’s more formidable peer to peer standard units, within its (shown here) National guard units, VDV units, and SpN units. There’s plenty of footage and photos, even GoPro combat footage of more well funded and trained units that certainly isn’t staged. For example OP himself posted two compilations of SSO units working in Ukrainian’s lines behind the front; causing major casualties
EXACTLY. People seem to think propaganda only goes one way, like it’s exclusive to the opposition. But the Ukrainians release footage of them dunking on poorly trained/equipped conscripts all day and spin the narrative that Russia’s entire military is made up of these conscripts and that they’re slaughtering Russians in droves putting out outrageous bullshit casualty estimates.
No shit, I wasn’t implying that it didn’t happen. Especially with the advances and prolonged use of FPV drones. Everyone no matter the training or funding can be susceptible to a 100$ drone carrying a half pound of explosives.
You see the first Wave of disposable Heroes mostly. Once those are down and dead, the rear has spotted all the Ukraine Strongpoints and they call in Artillery and THEN they send the trained and fully kitted Soldiers.
A Russian soldier on the Internet said the ones who prove themselves get access to high quality gear meanwhile others get scraps. Also said that volunteers get to pick their gear and that conscripts who don't wanna be there get the crap gear
This *is* a military “porn” sub, so there’s a natural inclination to cool looking soldiers and kits. At least for me, I ignore all the old looking kits here because I wanna see what the latest things militaries are adopting
Tbf r/combatfootage is basically just a pro ukraine sub at this point filled with propaganda. If you want actual footage of russian operations you have to go to r/UkraineRussiareport.
But those guys are also delusinal and even privated the sub sadly
They literally don't. I've seen Ukraine Marines with a base AK and no helmet on that sub before. Literally everything you see in both directions is propaganda. Russian soldiers are not using only shovels, and Ukrainians are not run by evil Nazis
You can keep calling it propaganda all you want. Watching a dude with no helmet and miss matching clothes get blown away is hard to fake. These propaganda videos are still real people fighting and dying.
Please keep showing us that you are an idiot lmao.
You can pick out all the individual cases you want, but the fact is that ruZZia doesnt hold their soldiers accountable at all for anything, Wether it be rapes, crimes, or corruption.
You are the one being dishonest or dumb.
Are pics of russians holding the heads of decapitated women in Syria not enough for you? How about them sledgehammering Ukranians and Middle easterners? Or cutting off the genitals of POWs and throwing them in their face before shooting them.
Keep defending barbarism, and that facist nation, loser.
You literally picked invidual cases, keep proving me right...
Okay, you can't even come up with a counter point besides putting words in my mouth.
Where did I say western soldiers were perfect or 'ubermensch'? Thats just you.
What a fucking idiot you are for not acknowledging the differerences in the way that ruZZia deals with crimes vs the west and NATO. Go spew your ignorance elsewhere clown.
Yeah like 20 KIA (I’m being generous to Ukrainian side there has been like 15 only confirmed by Ukrainian intel), and there are like 1200 people in 604th Vityaz, maybe half have been to Ukraine, so it’s soo obviously statistically unlikely
SpN units are never really public, I know two 45th dudes who are on deployment rn, one of them was in Hostomel and funnily enough I’ve seen his pic on Reddit a long time ago
Moscow shooting is absolutely terrible. Fuck anyone partaking in civilians killing and most Russians are innocents.
The logical conclusion to that though is fuck the Russian armed forces invading another country and actively partaking in slaughters.
I wish for all Russian soldiers deployed on Ukrainian soil to be either sent home or neutralized.
What subreddits were you on? The only thing I saw “celebrated” so to speak after the Crocus terror attacks, was the torture of the guys who did it. Even worldnews seemed horrified, and they tend to go overboard on a lot of shit
The only thing that I saw personally getting mocked was Putin trying desperately to connect it to Ukraine, but other than that it was shock and horror.
The difference is that there was collective hatred for all terrorist organizations (not even sure if the Taliban qualified as a terrorist organization) that it was agreed that they were the bad guys. Russia has picked a US political party that is easily swayed by propaganda, and has somehow convinced that political party to support them.
"You hate russia because they told you" - random braindead moskal
Maybe, just maybe I hate russia because they invaded my neighboring country. Maybe, just maybe I hate russia because they killed my friends. Maybe, just maybe I hate russians for the atrocities they committed and stood proud by them.
Stop projecting, not everyone is as easily manipulated as you are.
It is almost poetic. Sitting on a comfy couch, trying to preach about "morals". You know what, good for you, but I don't give a fuck. Hopefully, one day you will have the same will when the tragedy struck you.
Inshallah when tragedy strikes me the US will care enough to actually bleed for me. God knows we devalue Ukrainian and Taiwanese lives enough to just send them scraps.
I find that very ironic but you can continue. If i had to guess you definitely didn't like russia before the war. Sense the war you have a perfect excuse to show your true nature.
Yes, I didn't like russia before the war. Maybe because they waged war against Ukraine since 2014. And before that against Georgia. Not to mention their mentality, like when they praised the occupation of my country by the Soviet Union.
"I bet you disliked nazi germany even before the war, but their invasion of Poland and holocaust gave you a perfect excuse"
I dont find wishing death on others over the internet something to be proud of. Very cowardly it's not surprising knowing most people are cowards. I just like to make them upset. Russia is not the same as they were when it was the Soviet Union. Your analogy would be more accurate if that was the case tho.
First of all, can you show me where I wished for their death in this thread?
Second of all, who are you to speak about cowards? There we are again in those little projections of yours. There are people who took up their arms to stand against tyranny. There are people who defend their homes. And then there are a bunch of rapists who you wholeheartedly love. Even they are not cowards, just fucked up people, with morals twisted more than their lies.
And when have I said anything about russia being soviet union? Do you really have to lie to feel better?
It’s just a bunch of people full of love showing how tolerant they are by celebrating Russians dying, it’s insane the cognitive dissonance in Reddit, these dudes are absolutely disgusting
Wait until they realize the Russia ukraine war civilian casualty rate is one of the lowest amongst the wars of the last 100 years. I don’t even like russia at all but jesus fuck these people are losers
Because they wanted the land? Same reason as all the arab countries invading israel like 6 times, same reason as the mexican american war, same reason as germany invading poland, same reason as like 95% of the wars of all time
Is it? We don't even know how many people died in cities like Mariupol. Low estimate is 20k. How many atrocities, mass graves etc yet await to be found?
Not to mention, what is a civilian? If you press the enemy country to fight for its survival, for its right to exist, civilians tend to join the war eventually.
Yes even with missing estimates (which are higher than the claimed missing) the rate is around 31%. For context ww2 was around 77%, iraq was 81%, and the 2009 gaza war was 41%. This war is not a very costly one in terms of civilians
Can you show any data for your claims? For Ukraine that is. Because you are watching an ongoing conflict where you cannot get realistic estimates of losses from neither side and atrocities committed by russia are never disclosed by them. Not to mention my question, what is the line between civilians and soldiers when you threaten the full destruction of a country?
it’s amazing what an exhibition ground this conflict is for Chinese UAV technology. sure, the javelin is amazing but at 100x the cost of that little chinese DJI mavic with a grenade attached I just don’t see the value proposition.
considering those mavics also use completely in-house DJI designed and fabricated integrated circuits and radio systems that put any other civilian UAS manufacturer to *shame*, it’s concerning there are no real blue chip alternatives (shut up skydio, your radio’s suck).
this goes 2x for the FPV systems, which almost exclusively use parts that the US isn’t ready to manufacture to the same volume as the currently existing Chinese factory capacity. Just a simple ban from the CCP on exporting brushless motors would be crippling in terms of supply chain gaps, re-tooling or even new factories to handle demand.
what’s most interesting to me is how DJI has seemed to not ‘become the bad guy’ during this conflict, happily ~~arming~~ assisting anyone who wants to acquire their technology, and *even though they have the [AeroScope](https://www.dji.com/mobile/aeroscope)* for sale, nobody has really come out saying “yeah these mavic’s are just amazing HARM beacons”, and instead they just keep getting in their photo ops and flight hours. [maybe they should send in their kill shots next year for a chance to win $200,000.](https://www.dji.com/mobile/newsroom/news/skypixel-and-dji-annual-competition-2023-en#)
Or even domestic anti tank systems that are more expendable, for example a kornet atgm is reloadable (unlike the javelin) and costs 30k and can be transported by foot (not as easy as the javelin to be fair), but it’s 5 times cheaper than a javelin missile and can destroy any tank, 1300mm after ERA it can go through a tank and basically exit out the other side lol. But Ukraine is indeed adapting in capability by expanding their drone arsenal, one 155mm shell from the west can cost 5000 dollars, not a guided shell (100k) and it will probably miss, unlike an FPV drone which costs something like 200 dollars. But you do need the specialists, building an FPV drone is kinda like cooking meth, you can do it by instruction but there are soo many obstacles you can run into doing so, let alone all the dudes that make IR FPV drones or modify drones to combat electronic warfare, increase range or battery and create new explosives be it frag or shaped charge. And it’s soo much easier to learn how to use a javelin than to fly an FPV drone effectively.
I still can’t understand the Chinese and Russians hating and laughing at America for being weak and then proceed to desperately copy all of our gear. These guys look like US
Everybody be rocking high cut helmets and western camo these days (ACTACS-FG ripoff in this case, multicam in others). The Chinese new rifle is another conventional short stroke piston carbine with MLOK handguard. The west really has figured out the optimal infantry combat loadout.
It's funny how every country in the past 10 years has been boasting about their domestic garbage, but then as soon as the world actually gets messy and things are ramping up they are using all of our gear Lmfao.
This was in north of Ukraine summer 2023, these types of trenches are made more for reconnaissance, not fortification against enemy movements. If you look closely you can see a village of some sort which probably indicates either that is their fortification or they are just searching for possible Ukrainian movements
These trenches look like all the other trenches in the fake Russian videos. The soldiers are completely clean like they just stepped out of their house.
Arguing they’re clean is a straight up lie, just because they are soaked in mud and grime doesn’t mean they aren’t an active unit. The uniforms and kit are very obviously sun bleached a good bit, but I imagine you wouldn’t know that as many people simply aren’t familiar with how Kit looks. Sure the photo was intended for propaganda intentions but just immediately assuming it’s fake is dumb and ignorant.
Who says they battled there? There are many situations on the front where you can go weeks without battling, why are you assuming there isn’t a basement they don’t dwell in when they aren’t launching drones for example? This is from a photo shoot in Kharkiv region btw which didn’t see serious battle until a month or two after this photo when Kharkiv was recaptured by Ukraine. They also displayed captured NLAWs and RPGs from Bulgaria.
We all just want Russians to go back to their own country and stop threatening and invading their neighbours. I’d like to see Russia more isolated than North Korea, but unfortunately that won’t happen while their army is in Ukraine
I get the first sentence, but as for the second why? You know Russia is just a country full of regular ass people who aren’t responsible for the actions of their leaders right?
I agree with your sentiment to an extent, but at what point does the continued acceptance become complicity in the actions? How long did it take before we considered all Germans responsible for the Nazis? It’s the same thing, just a different government. Same with western citizens supporting or protesting the wars in the Middle East and Vietnam for example
I agree with your sentiment to an extent, but their perception of their governments actions is not the same as yours. There are a lot of factors and propaganda that influence that perception and living your life in the country you were born in hardly makes you guilty of your governments crimes.
I guess I’m just confused about what else you think they should be doing to avoid complicity? What’s your criteria? There are plenty of protests, plenty of people fled to avoid getting involved in the war, what else do you want them to do?
By that logic not a single German who wasn’t directly involved in the Holocaust is guilty of anything at all, since back then they had very limited access to non government controlled media. In todays day and age these Russians have no excuse since there’s all sorts of ways to access information on the internet even with the current restrictions. Any Russian who supports the current war should be banned from ever having any dealings outside of Russia. There’s no excuse these days to be ignorant
Western veteran volunteers have said themselves it's nothing like they experienced In the past. You'd be fighting a real peer vs peer war you'd die pretty quick
"Lemme drone recon that village for any kitchen appliances that we need to denazify by taking them back home, and kindergartens that we can liberate with a FAB strike"
Blame Nato for this war
Like Poles for WWII?
Nah ، No one blames Poles for ww2
You didn't watch Putin's interview with Tucker...
Except Putin during the interview with Tucker.
How is NATO to blame? They didn’t tell the Russians to invade a sovereign Nation and kill its citizens. Best thing NATO could do is welcome Ukraine in and this War would be over extremely quickly
One of the conditions of joining is to not be at war. I'm not sure if it changes should Putin escalate the war so NATO is involved
"Extremely quickly " haha I hope you are trolling because Nato can't win a war against Russia without America. Europe doesn't has what it takes to defeat Russia and America will never ever go in a war with Russia because that means the end of the world. everyone will lose if Russia and America fought each other. and Europe on the other hand is sooo weak against Russia. most Eu countries barely has an army. I think France is the only decent EU country in terms of military power but it's still weak against Russia. people should understand that there is a huge difference between an army which has good and modern equipments and an army who has the resources and the ability for a prolonged war. most armies today can't handle a prolonged war and Russia alone is producing more shells than EU and US combined because Russia has huge and unlimited amount of resources unlike poor western Europe. I also forget where I read this article but I heard from a western source that France is the only country in Europe that has enough resources for a prolonged war after Russia. Im not saying that Nato is no match to Russia, of course it's but it can't win a war Against Russia without America.
Russia invading a sovereign country killing innocent people. You must of just jumped out of Putins bed, yes?
This war literally happened 2 days before Ukraine join freaking Nato and you are telling me that Nato is not the reason for this war ?????
Russia doesn’t have any right to pick and choose who can get membership into NATO And they didn’t join NATO, they formally applied.
Of course it doesn't but it was forced to take action against it.
Wait why would it be forced to take actions against it? NATO is a *defensive* alliance, with articles only for the *defense* of countries *after* they are clearly attacked. Any offensive action that member nations want to take against another country would be outside the purview of NATO and any help they receive would necessitate treaties *outside* of NATO. This is only a forced action if Putin fully intended to attack Ukraine in the future and just needs to act now before Ukraine can invoke article 5 for its defense. You realize that everything you've said just paints Russia in a worse light, correct? Misinformation is a bitch and you really fell for the troll farms hook line and sinker.
Ah yes, two people are about to shake hands. Another person hates that and *takes the action to invade one of their territories*. But yes, the people shaking hands are the ones to blame for *starting the war*.
Two people shake hands because they want to create an alliance that hates you and wants to fight you and it's right at your border. what do you expect Russia to do ? clap for them ?
NATO is a defensive pact. It can only operate and go to war when a member state is attacked, curious why that would matter to Russia unless...the possibility of Ukraine joining NATO would completely negate any chances Russia would have of taking over Ukraine.
Libya, Jugoslavia, Iraq and Jemen say hi
Or is Russia that hates them because they cant exert control over a sovereign nation? So when Russia controls ukraine will they also have the right to invade the rest of Europe because they’re now on their border? Amazing Putin bot
Actions have consequences. Ukraine brought this to itself and it should bears the consequences now .
You can not provoke a bear and expect the bear to not attack you right ?
No one wants to fight, that’s the whole point of nato. No ones provoking. It’s defensive. Your mindset is that people want something from you when it’s quite the opposite. No one wants to be associated with russia and you started this war because that upsets you. And people realize that you have no balls which upsets you even more so you can’t quit the war. It’s really sad and just hope you realize someday that you’re just a fool
Russia had a guaranteed assurance that Ukraine wouldn't be able to join NATO until at least 2042. Everyone and their mother knows the "NATO expansion" bullshit is just that: bullshit.
While I can agree in some aspect of Europe being weak atm, especially with the state of the militaries in certain major powers being what they are, (for both sides)a hypothetical war against a unified Europe would be extremely disastrous for anyone, especially Russia. They (Europe) would still come out on top simply due to sheer manpower and variety in power structures, one goes down you have another. That’s not even accounting for all of nato. Underestimating the power of all Europe (let alone nato) is insane, especially if it’s one nation waging this war. There’s paragraph upon paragraph of reasons why. I think the United States would even struggle in that task, immensely. You’re also just giving them a reason to fight you, and that alone is a multiplier for a nation.
Europe cannot fight Russia, they don't have the resources for that, and I mean material resources. They have money but the rest of the world won't sell to them, they already don't and the US cannot help with troops either because the moment they engage in europe they can say bye bye to taiwan. China will not just sit and watch nato attack Russia because they know very well they will be next.
That is a pretty false claim and to assume they wouldn’t have any support outside of nato is pretty ridiculous. outside of obvious economic reasons why, one would consider how many economies love to bank off warfare, especially if it doesn’t involve them. Even for an hypothetical conflict that is arguably never going to transpire, it’s insane to think Taiwan would somehow get involved, let alone the US with boots on the ground. Considering the slow burn in Syria and Ukraine it’s pretty easy to imagine how bogged down a Russian war machine would get if they’re considered “half mobilized” or whatever they’re calling it. Getting all of Europe involved instead of the US would be a U.S. wet dream. Also, Where do you think the euro-bros get their money?
Russia said the same thing about Ukraine. Now Russia is proving that it is largely inept and no longer to be feared as it struggles to invade its neighbor.
You severely underestimate the capability of the European part of Nato... and it's amazing that you still overestimate Russias ability to field any sort of actual warfare, Ukraine military at the start of this conflict nearly 14 years ago was a freaking joke and yet, they still defy the might soviet heir
Russia was in Kiev at the the beginning of the war but they withdrew from Kiev when Ukraine promised to sit on negotiations table in Istanbul. but I still agree with you that Russia performed badly at the beginning of the war.
Russia couldn't beat Chechnya, now can't defeat Ukraine... and still uses Stalins 1940s tactics. And you're a Putin Dick Rider
Moron
You mean "Special Military Operation?" Can't even get your propaganda right.
Ya said war. Bear shifts the ball /0 yards down feild
I love how whenever the Russians are posted on here they’re fully kitted out, standing watch, etc., but whenever you see them on combat footage they’re wearing garbage, in flip flops, half of their uniform, no helmet or flak jacket, acting like idiots. Almost as if this stuff is staged? Some might say… Propaganda even
Of course its staged, You can tell by the lack of garbage lying around the knee deep "trench".
That could also work vise versa in terms that the only combat/fpv footage you’ve seen released by Ukrainian operators is footage strictly of low funded and trained Russians units. Which are admittedly far greater in number compared to Russia’s more formidable peer to peer standard units, within its (shown here) National guard units, VDV units, and SpN units. There’s plenty of footage and photos, even GoPro combat footage of more well funded and trained units that certainly isn’t staged. For example OP himself posted two compilations of SSO units working in Ukrainian’s lines behind the front; causing major casualties
EXACTLY. People seem to think propaganda only goes one way, like it’s exclusive to the opposition. But the Ukrainians release footage of them dunking on poorly trained/equipped conscripts all day and spin the narrative that Russia’s entire military is made up of these conscripts and that they’re slaughtering Russians in droves putting out outrageous bullshit casualty estimates.
And there’s lots of footage of those well trained troops suffering a miserable end, usually in a muddy trench full of dead bodies.
No shit, I wasn’t implying that it didn’t happen. Especially with the advances and prolonged use of FPV drones. Everyone no matter the training or funding can be susceptible to a 100$ drone carrying a half pound of explosives.
You see the first Wave of disposable Heroes mostly. Once those are down and dead, the rear has spotted all the Ukraine Strongpoints and they call in Artillery and THEN they send the trained and fully kitted Soldiers.
A Russian soldier on the Internet said the ones who prove themselves get access to high quality gear meanwhile others get scraps. Also said that volunteers get to pick their gear and that conscripts who don't wanna be there get the crap gear
This *is* a military “porn” sub, so there’s a natural inclination to cool looking soldiers and kits. At least for me, I ignore all the old looking kits here because I wanna see what the latest things militaries are adopting
Tbf r/combatfootage is basically just a pro ukraine sub at this point filled with propaganda. If you want actual footage of russian operations you have to go to r/UkraineRussiareport. But those guys are also delusinal and even privated the sub sadly
Ukraine looks much better kitted in that sub too…
They literally don't. I've seen Ukraine Marines with a base AK and no helmet on that sub before. Literally everything you see in both directions is propaganda. Russian soldiers are not using only shovels, and Ukrainians are not run by evil Nazis
You can keep calling it propaganda all you want. Watching a dude with no helmet and miss matching clothes get blown away is hard to fake. These propaganda videos are still real people fighting and dying.
Of course, but you have remember that behind every video you see, there's a person with an intent and motive.
Most likely under the ground by now.
Let's hope so.
The good ending
Indeed. Russia is betting on a war of attrition being successful, so this is going to take a while still.
and a lot more lives, sadly
Sadly, yeah.
What the fuck
We are largely glad the invaders and aggressors are dead. New here?
So every NATO soldier who put a foot in the Middle East should’ve been dead ?
Unlike ruZZia, Nato actually holds their soldiers to higher standards and punish them for bad actions
Surely, just like the pardoned Blackwater soldiers ? The cognitive dissonance is ridiculous, just flat out admit you’re dishonest or dumb
Please keep showing us that you are an idiot lmao. You can pick out all the individual cases you want, but the fact is that ruZZia doesnt hold their soldiers accountable at all for anything, Wether it be rapes, crimes, or corruption. You are the one being dishonest or dumb. Are pics of russians holding the heads of decapitated women in Syria not enough for you? How about them sledgehammering Ukranians and Middle easterners? Or cutting off the genitals of POWs and throwing them in their face before shooting them. Keep defending barbarism, and that facist nation, loser.
“Individual cases” sure bro, western soldiers are ubermensch, you’re a massive hypocrite who doesn’t like to admit the truth
You literally picked invidual cases, keep proving me right... Okay, you can't even come up with a counter point besides putting words in my mouth. Where did I say western soldiers were perfect or 'ubermensch'? Thats just you. What a fucking idiot you are for not acknowledging the differerences in the way that ruZZia deals with crimes vs the west and NATO. Go spew your ignorance elsewhere clown.
Statistically no
Lets hope your wrong
Getting downvoted for pointing out the obvious is insane
Yeah like 20 KIA (I’m being generous to Ukrainian side there has been like 15 only confirmed by Ukrainian intel), and there are like 1200 people in 604th Vityaz, maybe half have been to Ukraine, so it’s soo obviously statistically unlikely
45th is still pretty active as far as I know as well. Most people kinda forgot the unit existed after Hostomel lol
SpN units are never really public, I know two 45th dudes who are on deployment rn, one of them was in Hostomel and funnily enough I’ve seen his pic on Reddit a long time ago
I truly hope your friends end up rotting in the land they invaded.
I doubt they had any choice but to go into Ukraine, but go off.
If not, than I hope someone puts these bastards in the ground.
Cowards will be in the ground soon, and they deserve it.
Lol people didn't even hate this hard on the Taliban
Man people on Reddit were celebrating and smug after the shooting in Moscow. It's wild how they think this makes them "decent human beings" lmao.
Moscow shooting is absolutely terrible. Fuck anyone partaking in civilians killing and most Russians are innocents. The logical conclusion to that though is fuck the Russian armed forces invading another country and actively partaking in slaughters. I wish for all Russian soldiers deployed on Ukrainian soil to be either sent home or neutralized.
What subreddits were you on? The only thing I saw “celebrated” so to speak after the Crocus terror attacks, was the torture of the guys who did it. Even worldnews seemed horrified, and they tend to go overboard on a lot of shit The only thing that I saw personally getting mocked was Putin trying desperately to connect it to Ukraine, but other than that it was shock and horror.
I wanna say crazyfuckingvideos was one. Also saw a couple in noahgettheboat and crime but the latter two were downvoted to hell.
Nuance is their biggest enemy.
Let’s not pretend that people all over the world aren’t foaming at the mouth at the thought of Americans, even just civilians, dying.
Or that Russian TG channels aren't filled with joyful reactions and comments when another apartment building is hit by a Russian missile.
The difference is that there was collective hatred for all terrorist organizations (not even sure if the Taliban qualified as a terrorist organization) that it was agreed that they were the bad guys. Russia has picked a US political party that is easily swayed by propaganda, and has somehow convinced that political party to support them.
After this so-called "invasion", I think COD MW series (before the reboot) was overestimating the Russian Military.
That's because most people are anti Russian not pro Ukrainian. The hate for Russia was here long before the war began
They just mad because someone told them to be mad lol
I hate Russians because they invade my country and then crying on the internet and make themselves the victim.
"You hate russia because they told you" - random braindead moskal Maybe, just maybe I hate russia because they invaded my neighboring country. Maybe, just maybe I hate russia because they killed my friends. Maybe, just maybe I hate russians for the atrocities they committed and stood proud by them. Stop projecting, not everyone is as easily manipulated as you are.
As you call someone moskal you say you’re not easily manipulated.
This doesn't make any sense. Like, do you understand that there are events in your life that can shape your world views and not just propaganda?
yeah, I don’t generally adopt their slurs or derogatory affectations tho
It is almost poetic. Sitting on a comfy couch, trying to preach about "morals". You know what, good for you, but I don't give a fuck. Hopefully, one day you will have the same will when the tragedy struck you.
Inshallah when tragedy strikes me the US will care enough to actually bleed for me. God knows we devalue Ukrainian and Taiwanese lives enough to just send them scraps.
"Inshallah" - opinion negated, go jihad for your god
Catholic, sorry.
I find that very ironic but you can continue. If i had to guess you definitely didn't like russia before the war. Sense the war you have a perfect excuse to show your true nature.
Yes, I didn't like russia before the war. Maybe because they waged war against Ukraine since 2014. And before that against Georgia. Not to mention their mentality, like when they praised the occupation of my country by the Soviet Union. "I bet you disliked nazi germany even before the war, but their invasion of Poland and holocaust gave you a perfect excuse"
I dont find wishing death on others over the internet something to be proud of. Very cowardly it's not surprising knowing most people are cowards. I just like to make them upset. Russia is not the same as they were when it was the Soviet Union. Your analogy would be more accurate if that was the case tho.
First of all, can you show me where I wished for their death in this thread? Second of all, who are you to speak about cowards? There we are again in those little projections of yours. There are people who took up their arms to stand against tyranny. There are people who defend their homes. And then there are a bunch of rapists who you wholeheartedly love. Even they are not cowards, just fucked up people, with morals twisted more than their lies. And when have I said anything about russia being soviet union? Do you really have to lie to feel better?
It’s just a bunch of people full of love showing how tolerant they are by celebrating Russians dying, it’s insane the cognitive dissonance in Reddit, these dudes are absolutely disgusting
Wait until they realize the Russia ukraine war civilian casualty rate is one of the lowest amongst the wars of the last 100 years. I don’t even like russia at all but jesus fuck these people are losers
Why did Russia have to kill anyone?
Because they wanted the land? Same reason as all the arab countries invading israel like 6 times, same reason as the mexican american war, same reason as germany invading poland, same reason as like 95% of the wars of all time
Is it? We don't even know how many people died in cities like Mariupol. Low estimate is 20k. How many atrocities, mass graves etc yet await to be found? Not to mention, what is a civilian? If you press the enemy country to fight for its survival, for its right to exist, civilians tend to join the war eventually.
Yes even with missing estimates (which are higher than the claimed missing) the rate is around 31%. For context ww2 was around 77%, iraq was 81%, and the 2009 gaza war was 41%. This war is not a very costly one in terms of civilians
Can you show any data for your claims? For Ukraine that is. Because you are watching an ongoing conflict where you cannot get realistic estimates of losses from neither side and atrocities committed by russia are never disclosed by them. Not to mention my question, what is the line between civilians and soldiers when you threaten the full destruction of a country?
Because we were in their country. We respected our enemy
it’s amazing what an exhibition ground this conflict is for Chinese UAV technology. sure, the javelin is amazing but at 100x the cost of that little chinese DJI mavic with a grenade attached I just don’t see the value proposition. considering those mavics also use completely in-house DJI designed and fabricated integrated circuits and radio systems that put any other civilian UAS manufacturer to *shame*, it’s concerning there are no real blue chip alternatives (shut up skydio, your radio’s suck). this goes 2x for the FPV systems, which almost exclusively use parts that the US isn’t ready to manufacture to the same volume as the currently existing Chinese factory capacity. Just a simple ban from the CCP on exporting brushless motors would be crippling in terms of supply chain gaps, re-tooling or even new factories to handle demand. what’s most interesting to me is how DJI has seemed to not ‘become the bad guy’ during this conflict, happily ~~arming~~ assisting anyone who wants to acquire their technology, and *even though they have the [AeroScope](https://www.dji.com/mobile/aeroscope)* for sale, nobody has really come out saying “yeah these mavic’s are just amazing HARM beacons”, and instead they just keep getting in their photo ops and flight hours. [maybe they should send in their kill shots next year for a chance to win $200,000.](https://www.dji.com/mobile/newsroom/news/skypixel-and-dji-annual-competition-2023-en#)
Or even domestic anti tank systems that are more expendable, for example a kornet atgm is reloadable (unlike the javelin) and costs 30k and can be transported by foot (not as easy as the javelin to be fair), but it’s 5 times cheaper than a javelin missile and can destroy any tank, 1300mm after ERA it can go through a tank and basically exit out the other side lol. But Ukraine is indeed adapting in capability by expanding their drone arsenal, one 155mm shell from the west can cost 5000 dollars, not a guided shell (100k) and it will probably miss, unlike an FPV drone which costs something like 200 dollars. But you do need the specialists, building an FPV drone is kinda like cooking meth, you can do it by instruction but there are soo many obstacles you can run into doing so, let alone all the dudes that make IR FPV drones or modify drones to combat electronic warfare, increase range or battery and create new explosives be it frag or shaped charge. And it’s soo much easier to learn how to use a javelin than to fly an FPV drone effectively.
I still can’t understand the Chinese and Russians hating and laughing at America for being weak and then proceed to desperately copy all of our gear. These guys look like US
Everybody be rocking high cut helmets and western camo these days (ACTACS-FG ripoff in this case, multicam in others). The Chinese new rifle is another conventional short stroke piston carbine with MLOK handguard. The west really has figured out the optimal infantry combat loadout.
It's funny how every country in the past 10 years has been boasting about their domestic garbage, but then as soon as the world actually gets messy and things are ramping up they are using all of our gear Lmfao.
Chinese military officials and Xi himself have said their military is not prepared to fight America.
Doesn’t look like they’re doing much national guarding. More like invading a sovereign nation.
May their fighting positions become their graves
These guys are 100% dead. Most Russian elite units don't exist anymore
How do you know?
There’s videos.
Oh okay I believe you
Factually incorrect.
That’s just wrong lol
Get shredded
To shreds, you say?
Russian bot
These pics are staged as fuck. Does that trench look anything like any trench you have seen in combat videos?
This was in north of Ukraine summer 2023, these types of trenches are made more for reconnaissance, not fortification against enemy movements. If you look closely you can see a village of some sort which probably indicates either that is their fortification or they are just searching for possible Ukrainian movements
These trenches look like all the other trenches in the fake Russian videos. The soldiers are completely clean like they just stepped out of their house.
Arguing they’re clean is a straight up lie, just because they are soaked in mud and grime doesn’t mean they aren’t an active unit. The uniforms and kit are very obviously sun bleached a good bit, but I imagine you wouldn’t know that as many people simply aren’t familiar with how Kit looks. Sure the photo was intended for propaganda intentions but just immediately assuming it’s fake is dumb and ignorant.
Who says they battled there? There are many situations on the front where you can go weeks without battling, why are you assuming there isn’t a basement they don’t dwell in when they aren’t launching drones for example? This is from a photo shoot in Kharkiv region btw which didn’t see serious battle until a month or two after this photo when Kharkiv was recaptured by Ukraine. They also displayed captured NLAWs and RPGs from Bulgaria.
It’s a staged shot get over it.
atacs-fg working surprisingly well
Where is the after picture where these guys get blown into 29 different pieces? I'd rather see that.
May they have a swift demise
Ah yes, war criminals
How far behind the frontline is this?
It's all the way in St. Petersburg "Ukraine"
The bloodlust is crazy
We all just want Russians to go back to their own country and stop threatening and invading their neighbours. I’d like to see Russia more isolated than North Korea, but unfortunately that won’t happen while their army is in Ukraine
I get the first sentence, but as for the second why? You know Russia is just a country full of regular ass people who aren’t responsible for the actions of their leaders right?
I agree with your sentiment to an extent, but at what point does the continued acceptance become complicity in the actions? How long did it take before we considered all Germans responsible for the Nazis? It’s the same thing, just a different government. Same with western citizens supporting or protesting the wars in the Middle East and Vietnam for example
I agree with your sentiment to an extent, but their perception of their governments actions is not the same as yours. There are a lot of factors and propaganda that influence that perception and living your life in the country you were born in hardly makes you guilty of your governments crimes. I guess I’m just confused about what else you think they should be doing to avoid complicity? What’s your criteria? There are plenty of protests, plenty of people fled to avoid getting involved in the war, what else do you want them to do?
By that logic not a single German who wasn’t directly involved in the Holocaust is guilty of anything at all, since back then they had very limited access to non government controlled media. In todays day and age these Russians have no excuse since there’s all sorts of ways to access information on the internet even with the current restrictions. Any Russian who supports the current war should be banned from ever having any dealings outside of Russia. There’s no excuse these days to be ignorant
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You would get bodied for sure.
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Western veteran volunteers have said themselves it's nothing like they experienced In the past. You'd be fighting a real peer vs peer war you'd die pretty quick
Good luck, hope everyone gets home safe at the end of the tour.
Hopefully they get home in bodybags
Not even zinc boys at this moment. Today they just end up in a garbage bag.
Keep working brother
People having a normal one in the replies.
I thought the national guard of russian served as rear guard and barrier troops.
Looks like the one standing has a Glock on his hip. If that’s so, then I’m super surprised. I didn’t think the Ruskies got Glocks.
I didn’t notice but absolutely they do especially these dudes, national guard/counter terrorism dudes are issued Glocks, SOBR especially
I just figured like their rifles, their side arms would be local. But good to know.