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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1253052
Archived version: https://archive.ph/HGfpH
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230809191901/https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-build-up-forces-west-counter-nato-threat-shoigu-2023-08-09/
You can do quite a bit of fuckery when you keep a population ignorant and misinformed.
US Republicans furiously taking notes
What I mean is that Ukraine still fighting Russia with so much money being thrown at their defense doesn’t seem to jive with a narrative of a foundering Russian military
What russia lacks in gear it makes up with cannon fodder and blood. This is how you last a year and a half.
Like every article and interview with Ukranians about the conditions on the battlefield make mention of the RF consistently having an exponential (sometimes 10 to 1) artillery advantage, which also doesn’t gel with the narrative of an unsupplied army on the brink of collapse
It’s not the Russians sending waves of recruits into minefields but ok
Because you think they didn’t do it when they attacked a few month ago ?
And what he’s saying is that you can do a lot of fuckery when you keep people misinformed.
They may not have many effective pieces of equipment or soldiers, but they sure as hell have a lot of ineffective ones