• tal@lemmy.today
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    3 months ago

    looks at the bullet hole in the middle of the driver’s side of the windshield

    I dunno how far I’d trust the bulletproof glass on those VP11s.

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      3 months ago

      Russian military strategy is to throw people against the enemy’s front line until they break through, which is not effecient in the age of automatic weapons

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        3 months ago

        Their militia’s (which Wagner group is) strategy is bullying civilians

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        3 months ago

        No one was rooting for him, lol. Most sane people were hoping that he and Putin were both taken out somehow during his failed little rebellion.

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          I mean there was that very brief period when it seemed like they might revolt against Putin.

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            3 months ago

            Still didn’t make them heroes in any way. They have a dirty smelly track record that will always stain them.

            Wagner didn’t march towards Moscow to give back the power to the Russian people.

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              Didn’t say it made them heroes, just pointing out a time when it was likely people would be supporting them.

              “Rooting for them” in general is probably overstating but “rooting for them to take out Putin” would be reasonable IMO.

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              It’s a reference to Prighozin’s armored column advancing on Moscow.

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group_rebellion

              The name derives from a rapid American advance into Baghdad in the Iraq War.

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Baghdad_(2003)

              On April 5, Task Force 1–64 Armor of the US Army’s 3rd Infantry Division, 2nd Brigade, executed a raid, later called the “Thunder Run”, to test remaining Iraqi defenses. The operation began south of Baghdad and went through main roads to the newly secured airport.[29] Iraqi resistance was disorganized, and the unit sustained few casualties. The unit was forced to abandon one tank due to a recoilless rifle or RPG strike in the rear that penetrated a fuel cell and set the engine on fire.[30] The crew was unharmed. Later, the Air Force bombed the tank to destroy it in place, and the Iraqi Information Ministry claimed credit for destroying it.

              Two days later, the entire 2nd Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division was ordered to conduct another “Thunder Run”, following the same route as before. This route had been fortified in the intervening period, and senior leaders feared much more substantial resistance than during the prior encounter. Colonel David Perkins, the brigade’s commander, followed the original Thunder Run route north into Baghdad, but then veered east into the government districts instead of west towards the airport. The 2nd Brigade easily took control of what is now the “Green Zone” in one day, dramatically speeding up the end of conventional ground combat in Iraq.[31]

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                Thank you. Then no, I didn’t support them. I just hope Putin would pull enough troops out of Ukraine to fight them to make a difference. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen.

                Not surprised someone here decided we all supported Nazis just because they were fighting Putin. Some people have such a black-and-white view of the world.

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                  3 months ago

                  It’s more of a rooting for them to take out Putin thing.

                  I really doesn’t think an offhand joke about a failed mutiny would get this deep