RE: Russian lawmakers authorize Putin to use military force outside the country, Part II
08-26-2023, 06:07 AM
08-26-2023, 06:07 AM
I think I might've lost what I was trying to say
People are used to expecting quick military victories with fancy western tech and are surprised when they doesn't happen. But it's not happening because the one other factor that enables fancy western tech to operate with impunity is missing --- the absolute and total domination of the airspace above the battlefield
So you've got two European industrialised countries kicking each others teeth in the old-fasioned white-people way and it takes a lot of time to do that. People are too used to quick victories with modern western stuff that they don't expect a hard slog through
The wunderwaffe have to actually move up and engage into strong resistance in contested airspace where everyone has access, and drones add a new dimension. Now it's the secondary characteristics of crew surviveability, vehicle repairability and salvageability that are becoming the useful things. The most popular thing about Western vehicles isn't their overall effectiveness, it's the tendancy for the contents to survive while the vehicle is killed.
Anyway - there're noises of a Ukrainian breakthrough being made through the orbit of the Russian army's eyeball - and now they can rampage their military leukotome through the soft brain matter beneath. The really hard defences might have cracked.
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Wouldn't call Russia Medieval anyway. Even the middle ages had standards of conduct for Soldiers in the Field. Ask Peter Von Hagenbach about it. It's not even a mafia state. Because the Mafia have standards of conduct - a basic reciprocity of loyalties and rewards. A basic honour for the dead.
In Russiam all culture is dead. Only existance remains.
I wrote this as a joke a while back, but it now seems nightmarishly true.
It is the 21st century.
For more than Two Decades Vladimir Putin has ruled immoveable from his Golden throne. He is master of Russia by the apathy of millions and the master of a millions by the blight of propeganda. He is a rotting carcass writhing with cancer, sustained by the powers of chemotherapy and kleptomania. He is the ruler of a carrion-state for whom a thousand souls are sacrificed daily so that it may never truly die. To be a Russian in such times is to be one amongst declining millions. It is to live in the corruptest and most criminal regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of democracy and truth, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of peace and prosperity, for in the grim darkness of the near future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the nations, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of a thirsting military industrial complex
People are used to expecting quick military victories with fancy western tech and are surprised when they doesn't happen. But it's not happening because the one other factor that enables fancy western tech to operate with impunity is missing --- the absolute and total domination of the airspace above the battlefield
So you've got two European industrialised countries kicking each others teeth in the old-fasioned white-people way and it takes a lot of time to do that. People are too used to quick victories with modern western stuff that they don't expect a hard slog through
The wunderwaffe have to actually move up and engage into strong resistance in contested airspace where everyone has access, and drones add a new dimension. Now it's the secondary characteristics of crew surviveability, vehicle repairability and salvageability that are becoming the useful things. The most popular thing about Western vehicles isn't their overall effectiveness, it's the tendancy for the contents to survive while the vehicle is killed.
Anyway - there're noises of a Ukrainian breakthrough being made through the orbit of the Russian army's eyeball - and now they can rampage their military leukotome through the soft brain matter beneath. The really hard defences might have cracked.
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Wouldn't call Russia Medieval anyway. Even the middle ages had standards of conduct for Soldiers in the Field. Ask Peter Von Hagenbach about it. It's not even a mafia state. Because the Mafia have standards of conduct - a basic reciprocity of loyalties and rewards. A basic honour for the dead.
In Russiam all culture is dead. Only existance remains.
I wrote this as a joke a while back, but it now seems nightmarishly true.
It is the 21st century.
For more than Two Decades Vladimir Putin has ruled immoveable from his Golden throne. He is master of Russia by the apathy of millions and the master of a millions by the blight of propeganda. He is a rotting carcass writhing with cancer, sustained by the powers of chemotherapy and kleptomania. He is the ruler of a carrion-state for whom a thousand souls are sacrificed daily so that it may never truly die. To be a Russian in such times is to be one amongst declining millions. It is to live in the corruptest and most criminal regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of democracy and truth, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of peace and prosperity, for in the grim darkness of the near future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the nations, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of a thirsting military industrial complex
Oh sweet meteor of death
Fall upon us.
Deliver us in fire
To Peace everlasting.
Fall upon us.
Deliver us in fire
To Peace everlasting.