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[-] Egon@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Did field marshal Douglas Haig write this?
"You see them preparing defense fortifications which we throw ourselves senselessly into is actually a part of our master plan".
Are you doing a weird Blackadder bit?
"They'd expect us NOT to attack where they are strongest, with little to no preparation and no chance of victory."
"I see a small issue with your plan sir. It's the same we used the last 16 times."
"Which is precisely why they won't expect us to do it again!"

Russia is sitting on all the territory that it claimed, and is now in a war of attrition which it is winning pretty handedly in part because Ukrainians are being thrown into a meat grinder they have no chance of beating.

I know you all hate Ukraine

Hating ukrainians is when you don't want them to die in the thousands for a pointless war.

Oh wait you didn't mean people you meant the political entity.
I don't really give a shit about countries, and I really can't give a shit about which political entity ends up "winning" the ~~game~~ war. I care about people, and I'd like for them not to die.

But reality doesn't always reflect your geopolitical wet dreams.

Are you being serious right now? The first of the surovikin line could not even be breached. You're talking about thousands of casualties being worth it for some greater political goal. That's geopolitics you idiot! You're the one talking geopolitics, and you're basing your wants on a fantasy. Thousands of ukrainians are dead, more are dying, and the Russians are chilling in defensive fortifications. But somehow you think I'm the one with a geopolitical aim and an unrealistic worldview?

When do you think this war will end? You seem to think the Ukrainians will have to expel the Russian military first, so that would take the dismantling of the three defensive lines, as well as the lines that will have been erected further back in the meantime. Going by how you think they should do it - Throwing themselves to their deaths by the thousands - they will run out of Ukrainians before anything else happens. If you're so into this grand geopolitical game, go fucking volunteer yourself. You'll die in a ditch and the world will be none the worse for it.

[-] Vncredleader@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

God I can't believe you hate Belgians and the French, why must you be so against them being shredded by artillery and choking on mustard gas? Don't you know that Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori?

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

During the war of 1864 Denmark should've fought to the last man. Retreating after the battle at Dybbøl Mill and ceding Holstein to the Prussians is a breaking of their obligation to die as cannon fodder

[-] ChapoKrautHaus@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

You could have picked ANY hopeless last stand from 2000+ years of military history and you went for an obscure sideshow war in the German unification wars that less than 1% of humans are even aware of.

Impressive.

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thank you! I was hoping to start a thing where we went further and further back in time and obscurity. Sadly I chose something too obscure to being with

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