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  • The Russian military equipment was old and shit, mostly soviet era,

    Most countries still use cold-war era equipment including Russia.

    Russia however produced more T-90Ms (a very good tank mind you) last year than the amount of tanks the entire German military has. Production was 20-30 per month last year but this has likely since doubled. Losses for T-90Ms have been low as per Oryx with production massively outpacing losses (one to two months of production last year was enough to replace yearly T-90M losses).

    Before you talk about T-54/55s, they are being sent to volunteer formations that use them as SPGs for hotter zones as they are better protected from artillery fire than most other SPGs (including western) which is often just armoured against bullets. In fact, they were the last Soviet tank produced to ever have indirect fire instructions in the manual.

    Russian SPG losses significantly reduced since the T-54 appeared.

    Regular army has priority when it comes to receiving modern equipment, unlike the Volunteer formations in Ukraine.

    probably in because they have an oligarch class that syphons off all the money,

    Yes corruption exists, but Russia has been cracking down on it.

    they sent all the fighting age men they could round up to use as cannon fodder

    Where is your proof of this?

    and then surprise surprise, noone else wanted to go.

    Russia’s last partial mobilisation happened in 2022. Russia over the past couple of years has seen a massive surge in volunteers with around 430,000 recruited in 2024 compared to 300,000 being recruited in 2023. That seems to contradict your idea of noone else wanting to go.

    I watched a russian man telling a story told to him by relatives at war. He said they had 2 tanks. One fired but couldn’t move and the other moved but couldn’t fire. They used the tank that could move to tow the tank that could fire through Ukraine. It’s funny but you have to feel sorry for people who might be brave and decent but just have no chance…

    Told to him by relatives? Hearsay?

    Their country just doesn’t function well enough to give them a chance. And they know they’re fighting an unjust war for a tyrant. It reminded me of WW2 accounts of Russians at war. They’re pretty much in beach clothes with a broken pea shooter and expected to succeed? They don’t even have socks… I mean, you have to laugh. No wonder so many are dying.

    Soviet and Russian troops have traditionally used portyanki and only switched to socks in 2013.

    Some troops in Ukraine are complaining about being issued foot wraps despite it not only being standard issue not so long ago but dry faster than normal socks and with many wearing tarpaulin boots, foot wraps is better for them anyways.

    Meanwhile, the Finnish had to knit over 20,000 pairs of socks for Ukrainian soldiers.

    Video of portyanki.

    Russia couldn’t even win a war against little Ukraine - now they’re losing territory to a former soviet vassal state lol.

    Yeah, ‘little’ Ukraine. A country with a stronger military force compared to Germany, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom combined.


  • Ukraine is a small country, much less populated than Russia and has not only held off the Russian invasion for over 3 years,

    Ukraine had a stronger military compared to Germany, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom combined.

    Ukraine had a thousand tanks at the start of the war. At least half of them were modernized. The T-64BV Model 2017 has third generation thermal, new gun stabilizer, new autoloader, same fire suppression system as T-84 Oplot-M, digital communications, satellite navigation, and other improvements. They also upgraded their T-80s to T-80BV Model 2018 which brings it up to T-64BV Model 2017 standard. There is also T-64BM and T-64BM2 which are similar to the T-64BV Model 2017 but with a more modern fire control system. These tanks are not really much worst than say a Leopard 2.

    Germany, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom have less than a thousand tanks combined.

    Ukraine had two thousand MT-LBs which are fairly decent APCs (Russia had 3,000). They also had hundreds of modern BTR-4s and BTR-3s supplemented by hundreds of BTR-70s and BTR-80s.

    Ukraine had far more artillery guns compared to these countries combined. This includes the 500 2S3s they had at the start of the war which is Soviet counterpart to M109. They also had plenty of 2S1s and 2S19s. Even if you include only the 2S3s (which again are comparable to the M109), this is roughly the same amount of M109s that the US has.

    Ukraine has almost five times the amount of multiple launch rocket systems as France, Germany, Italy, and the UK combined. They are also the largest user of HIMARS and M270 outside of the US with them having more than France and Germany combined.

    Ukraine has also received over a hundred modern tanks (roughly the same amount the UK has) and over half a thousand of modern artillery guns from the West which is more artillery guns than the amount that France, German, Italy, and the UK have combined. This has helped replace their losses with their fleet of 2S3s which for example dwindled down to 140.

    Ukrainian military was also being trained by NATO since 2015 and also received MILES gear.

    The UK practically sent their entire stockpile of SPGs to Ukraine and begged to Sweden to replace their fleet and Poland thrown half of their stockpile of SPGs to Ukraine. Almost every European country has complained about massive shortages of ammunition due to it all being given to Ukraine. France stated they could only fight Russia for a few weeks before running out of ammo.

    Ukraine literally has a stronger military than France, Germany, Italy, and the UK combined. There is a reason why these countries state a Ukrainian defeat would be the end of Europe although in my opinion Russia has no plans to invade more countries outside of maybe the Baltics.

    All of this despite most of the Russian Armed Forces not even being in Ukraine, majority of forces in Ukraine again are from irregular volunteer formations recruited from regions across Russia.

    several times they’ve actually taken Russian territory

    You mean the several failed Belgorod incursions?

    Or you mean when Ukraine thrown up to a quarter of all their combat troops including their most elite into a small area in Kursk Oblast which got destroyed recently? Russia has 500K soldiers in the Ground Forces not including logistics which is part of its own branch. 100K of these are conscripts and Russia will not use them even in Kursk due to public pressure. So this leaves 400K soldiers. But most of those soldiers are being used to guard the country against NATO. This left 100K on Ukraine’s border (not including the 100K in Belarus) with 50K of which fighting in Kursk. Ukraine essentially concentrated 100K of their most elite forces and captured a very small portion of Kursk before being halted by 50K troops. These 50K troops recently destroyed this force utterly. When the chance of US intervention ceased with the Putin-Trump talks, Russia immediately launched a large-scale offensive with the air being crowded with aircraft and entire Ukrainian units surrendering. They liberated 28 settlements in a single week and captured multiple western tanks and pieces of equipment.

    as well as destroying Russian infrastructure inside russia and so on.

    Yet the Russian economy keeps growing.




  • Go find the videos. They’re super easy to find. There’s even an instance here where the Ukraine army (I’m guessing) shares them

    Link me those videos since it is so easy to find.

    There’s quite a funny one I saw recently where there’s 2 Russian guys who are doing a farcical attempt to ride motorbikes, there’s no translation so idk what they’re saying but one is absolutely screaming at the other, who seems so useless its comical… I mean there are the sounds of bullets flying from somewhere and they are doing a Mr bean impression and can’t seem to stay on the motorbikes and then also can’t pick it up…

    Motorcycles have been found to be extremely effective as slower vehicles are often destroyed by drones if they lack proper support. They are also extremely cheap which matters because the majority of Russian forces are volunteers from regional volunteer formations. Meanwhile most of the actual Russian Armed Forces stayed in Russia. These volunteer formations are mostly funded by regional governments not by the federal government. But that does not mean Russia does not provide them with the essentials.

    TLDR: there is some truth that these forces are poorly equipped but not to the extent that you are saying.

    When Russia deployed actual professionals into the Kharkiv region, Ukraine had to send entire force of 30,000 soldiers backed by armored vehicles to halt the advance of 2,000-8,000 light infantry. Ukraine has not yet pushed this force with Vovchansk being turned into a literal parking lot by Russian military.

    Ukraine sent up to 100K of their most elite troops into Kursk backed by 500 armored vehicles and a thousand pieces of equipment in total not including those which were not destroyed or whose destruction was not recorded on video. Russia claimed 3K pieces of equipment which seems reasonable considering the amount of recorded losses. 100K would be a quarter of all combat troops. This force recently got destroyed.

    As for your last paragraph? Average age of a Russian soldier in Ukraine is around 50.




  • An unbelievably true take.

    Kamala Harris toned down her attacks on big business, she made no plans to improve America’s health care system other than vague promises to cancel debt, touted the endorsement of war criminal Dick Cheney who wanted to invade seven countries in five years and whom was partially responsible for the deaths of over a million, spent half as much time focusing on the most important issues during her campaign compared to Trump, and touted a Fortune 500 investment banking company‘s endorsement for her economic plans which made her look like an out of touch elitist especially when said company can only be described as a “great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money”.

    All Harris brought to the table was “freedom” meanwhile Trump came out with populist rhetoric and people seemed to like Trump’s rhetoric more considering that they have long since become disillusioned with the Status Quo.


  • I will answer all these questions with the response - invalid question, based on lies and half-truths.

    And I consider those invalid answers.

    Meanwhile you don’t seem to grasp that Putin has invaded Ukraine - that’s a war. The people have been fighting Russians for over 3 years.

    Ok, and?

    north Korean soldiers.

    Localized entirely within Sudzha region? May I see it? No.

    Claims of DPRK troops are often made but often with little evidence, here is a list of all such claims many of which contradict each other.

    Following the liberation of Kursk Oblast, Telegram channels have been flooded with images and videos of civilians in Kursk Oblast who were massacred by the Ukrainians. Even before the liberation of Kursk Oblast, there were leaked videos of Ukrainian soldiers loading civilians onto trucks and sending them to mass graves. There has been a large amount of evidence of mass murder and torture of civilians.

    This is similar to what happened in 2014 where Ukraine gunned down crowds. Should Russia let another Mariupol or another Kursk Oblast happen in the Donbas? In Crimea? Why or why not? I want valid answers to my valid questions.

    Bucha is a horrible war crime that should never have happened. But Ukraine has been doing their own massacres since 2014 which is why this war started.