Unfortunately Russia is figuring out that they can't handle high tech, but they can handle lots of low tech.
"Quantity is a quality of it's own".
Quantity is a quality of its own if you have unlimited manpower, i.e. if you are a low-tech agrarian society with naturally high birth rates and an effectively limitless pool of expendable serfs the Czar can press into canon-fodder service whenever he needs to wage war. Unfortunately for the current Czar, these things no longer hold, and no amount of pontificating about “traditional values” will turn this around by itself.
To be careful: I am not a supporter of Russia. Let's be clear on that.
Agreed he can't do this forever, but he only needs to hold out long enough for funding to run out, and is happy to spend lives and low tech equipment in the meantime. Look at the losses in avdiivka.
So for all interested porpoises, he did have unlimited lives and gear
All we can do is hope trump doesn't win and whatever Congress is next doesn't hold funding hostage
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I maybe don't get the meme, but why would western communists like modern russia? the most supporters of russia I know irl are far right
It's not a very good label for this. There's a certain subsection of the left that sees anti-Americanism as an ideology, and therefore any state that opposes America is categorically good.
They're not common, and they tend to overlap with the sort who's mom found their weed stash and made them throw it away. Lacking weed, they turn to making a lot of loud noises on Lemmy.
They're not common, but annoyingly a shockingly large number of them use Lemmy.
Lemmy exists because of them. Dessalines and crew didn't make Reddit for Leftists as a mere coincidence after r/ChapoTrapHouse got banned.
Hi, western communist here. Russia is a christo-fascist state but some fellow commies have accepted the position that any faction against US global dominance is one worth supporting regardless of their actual policies and humanity. The idea being that the #1 goal should be the distruction of the hegemony that has oppressed many of the worlds nations in the hopes that communism can rise out of them now that they would be free to make that choice.
Most communists in the West are not like this. This is a specific subsection of communists who want to knowingly support christo-fascists. Most western communists fucking hate Russia.
should be labeled tankies but yea
In other news, the remaining T-84s come with cope cage mounting points installed at the factory!
Not enough budget for the cope cage though.
I’m not a tank guy, but didn’t half of it’s gimmicks didn’t work or were hopelessly outdated in the first place?
The NATO-beating AI targeting systems are literally a potato, though their development did pay for a number of superyachts off Monaco and stately homes in Surrey.
The thermal optics are outdated shit that the French offloaded on them after pulling them off the Leclerc.
The "Active protection system" requires manual input from the crew. I don't really need to elaborate on why that's bad, right?
The engine was never designed to be used in a vehicle. It's meant for running fuel pumps. There is no evidence that it can hit its stated top speeds.
The internal electronics are all visibly outdated, and have no backups. If the monitors go down, the crew are blind.
The autoloader is just the same tech they've been putting in tanks since the sixties.
The “Active protection system” requires manual input from the crew. I don’t really need to elaborate on why that’s bad, right?
You need to be actively using it at all times or you die
You need to be actively using it at all times and you die
Makes sense that a relatively small economy like Russia can't afford expensive pieces of hardware like that. Especially when at war. They probably already knew it. Just announcing it now.
You hearing this Xi? Yladivostok is up for the taking in a "3 day special military operation." You can go protect the large minority of Han (Chinese, but the type they actually care about) citizens, score an easy military and political victory, regain territory that China lost in like 1900, and pull attention away from Taiwan, all at the same time.
Deng Xiaoping missed his chance in 1989, the last time we bankrupted The USSR/Russia. Don't miss your chance to regain glorious Chinese territory!
HAHA HAHAHAHA
Image unrealistic. The Western Communists aren't jerking each other off.
Why aren't we jerking each other off?
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