https://video.nostr.build/cea7007a778f657e02d1d2b2c8855c3e08e4857564ee3b00705507a1120c58ed.mp4
Ukrainian Stryker, running short on ammo, runs over Russians instead. 😂
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Russians use a lot of recon-by-fire with their conscripts. Low experienced troops move forward first as literal cannon fodder to identify Ukrainian fire positions, then higher experienced troops and artillery hit the positions. Here’s a way to counter that even with plentiful ammo!
Technically not usually with actual conscripts, as Russian law prohibits them from being used outside Russia's borders; that prohibition is usually followed. That's why Russia is offering huge bonuses for signing up: they desperately need the volunteers.
That said, this specific video was allegedly filmed in Kursk, Russia, so in this case they might have been conscripts.
Anyway, fuck them. They could have died an honorable death revolting against their commanders. Or they could have just accepted jail, or surrendered. They chose to fight for Russia instead. They deserved their deaths.
I’m actually surprised they’d follow that kind of rule for conscripts. Though perhaps Russian-style conscription is more like “hey, if you value the health of your family, volunteer.”
Russia is a nation of laws. And it's not a strict dictatorship either. Putin needs to follow rules to stay in power. Part of the social deal is that the use of conscripts has limits. That's also one reason why Russia is importing North Koreans to fight in Kursk.
We saw the same kind of thing in WW2 Germany. One of the reasons why Germany lost was the German public was never willing to agree to the level of rationing that, eg, the British public was. Germany was fighting an offensive war by choice. Hitler couldn't stay in power without keeping the German population relatively comfortable.
I'm fairly sure that the last two years of WW2 insofar as Nazi Germany was concerned, any illusion of comfort was if not gone then fast evaporating. By the time the Allies had reached the Ardennes and fuel rationing and hard scarcity was a thing, you'd be back to making deliveries by horse cart and bycicle.
Hitler ruled by brainwashing, fear and secret policing and while Russia technically has a functional representative democracy, let's not kid ourselves that Putin has not clearly set the standards of public discourse irt the "Special Military Operation" that is, establishing a fear of repercussions if you manage to fart in the wrong way in public. (And his Gestapo is just called FSB).
Yes, eventually Germany was fucked. At the end, and post-war, it was to the point where a lot of Germans who couldn't work simply starved to death.
But as I said, earlier on one of the ways they screwed themselves over was not taking the war seriously enough. Hitler, like Putin, had limits to how far he could push the German public.
Now, if Germany hadn't been filled with so many psychopaths convinced of their own superiority, they might have surrendered earlier in the war, before things had gotten to the point where Germans were literally starving to death... But if German society had been better they probably wouldn't have waged war in the first place.
Yep… fuck ‘em. That’s the moral answer to a problem we pretend online to have any idea about
I've been in Ukraine during air raids; I've heard Russian drones flying around buildings I was in, and been near explosions multiple times. I've given a fair bit of money to Ukrainian military units – after all, their sacrifices are the only reason I can even visit Ukraine.
It's not hard to figure out what's going on. Anyone with a shred of decency and intelligence knows that Russia is the evil party here and needs to be eliminated.
So former US ambassador Chas Freeman, former chief of staff to the Secretary of State Larry Wilkerson, and former high level CIA analysts Larry Johnson and Ray McGovern don't have "a shred of decency and intelligence" ?
You are so out of your depth on this issue it's not funny; it's woefully pathetic and shows you as a highly deficient individual in some important areas.
The US govt has hired lots of people without a shred of decency...
Have you ever listened to Freeman or Wilkerson? Freeman in particular is remarkably intelligent. And any listener to Ray McGovern will appreciate how 'decent' a man he is.
It's not hard to figure out who is good and evil when one side regularly drops grenades on civilian busses in a city that was never there's to try to take land that was never there's.
https://video.nostr.build/0c92a879132103d4ae2deb6004045ac47ed7903d77ec19661d7c46d7cae5cd80.mp4
Russian culture is just evil. It needs to be wiped out. No different than how wiping out Nazi Germany was necessary for Europe to have peace.
Are you even aware that Ukraine was constantly bombing its own civilians in the Donbas from 2014 on? And Nazi Germany was defeated largely by the USSR, while the current Ukraine rëgime harbours many within its most senior ranks who openly idolise Nazi collaborator Stefan Bandera and openly profess Nazi ideology (and motifs).
Seriously, you are so ignorant on this topic; it's not worth engaging with you on it. I'll just continue to call out your ignorance & bigotry as I continue to follow your account because you're usually such an intelligent voice on Bitcoin matters.
The claim that Ukraine was bombing civilians in the Donbas is a Russian lie. Russian meanwhile has likely tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilians in eastern Ukraine. Quite possibly hundreds of thousands. Hard to know exact numbers as Russia doesn't allow international observers in to count bodies.
Ukraine does of course get to bomb all the Russian soldiers in Donbas that they want. Prior to 2022 Ukraine had killed tens of thousands of them.
As for "Nazi ideology" 😂😂😂 it's a country lead by an openly Jewish president. Russia meanwhile allied with Nazi Germany, and there's clear similarities with Nazi German desire for more land and what Russia is doing right now.
Aren’t you just an expert on Russian small unit infantry tactics. So sure of yourself.
Got a better explanation for what those soldiers were doing before getting chased by the Striker?
Nope… but I’m not offering my bullshit opinions online as if I knew exactly who it was or what they were doing. Some Bitcoin OG told you it was Ukrainians running over Russians… must be true so just parrot that
You’re right. Could be a Stryker captured by Russians running over Ukrainians or old footage of a US Stryker in winter time Afghanistan. 😂
At least you got the spelling of Stryker correct this time… but you’re right… A 35 second NV optic video tells the whole story… let’s laugh at people dying in war some more
I approve of every successful tactic ukranians employ I’m disturbed be the rofl tho
This is somehow funny?
Yes. For very obvious reasons.
The people dying need to be killed, and that's both funny, and quite clever and courageous on the part of the Ukrainians doing it.
Haha it reminds me playing Dune 2 in the olden days
Cause the closest you’ve ever gotten to seeing a war zone was Dune 2… typical
I don't know how you think this is funny. These are someones kids, brothers, or parents. Young men or women who were lured (or forced) into this war for a quick paycheck.
Unfollowing.
Somehow that’s lost on most people
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They are psychopaths participating in a brutal, entirely unjustified, invasion of a peaceful nation.
Just today Russia murdered yet another civilian in Kherson by dropping a grenade from a drone on a civilian bus. This happens daily. Every death Russia gets us one step closer to ending that slaughter.
It's perfectly ok to laugh at the deaths of evil people. It's also psychologically healthy to remind yourself that killing these scumbags is something to celebrate. And the Ukrainians and everyone else killing these psychopaths are heros.
https://x.com/ZarinaZabrisky/status/1876392579320930651
Yet another Ukrainian bus literally covered with blood, simply because Russians want to steal their land.
Russian culture is simply trash.
You talk like another psychopath
I thought this video needed some Benny Hill, so here it is.
https://video.nostr.build/9508c9c8b116c17f342f95e2d28aa8fa043fddce5305f3eb70d307566e404d7b.mp4
https://video.nostr.build/7bf94a35fa8bbea3752cb6b77a63863231bdc2835c55075c05800caee16a109f.mp4
Another view. Looks like they were using small arms fire up close.
Perhaps more evidence that the tactic is to keep defensive positions hidden, though there’s probably also a bit of ammo saving firing that close.
Reportedly this was during a rout. They were pursuing fleeing Russians and had shot so many that they were low on ammo.
Strykers only carry about 400 rounds of ammo for the main gun. You run out surprisingly fast. And of course, you don't want to use every last shot.
Risky strategy due to the possibility of land mines. But every Russian you fail to kill today is a Russian who might kill you tomorrow. If you can kill a lot of them quickly due to them being in panick, take advantage of it.
Ah, the GTA V method.
Rather desperate than funny.
All those fighting people could be building useful stuff…
https://video.nostr.build/0c92a879132103d4ae2deb6004045ac47ed7903d77ec19661d7c46d7cae5cd80.mp4
That's a Ukrainian bus in Kherson, after a Russian drone dropped a grenade on it. This kind of thing happens every day, as Russia is intentionally murdering Ukrainian civilians daily to try to get Kherson for themselves.
Unfortunately, Ukraine has to wipe out Russia first before they can do something more useful. It's just a necessary precondition. No different than how wiping out mosquitoes and thus malaria was necessary for Israel to develop.
Sure.. I just don’t find funny that even “evil” people are dying.