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Russia cracks down on personal phones on the frontline
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"You will not let anyone know how fucked you are."
There's a bunch of cases of soldiers getting hit because they posted identifiable information. The redditors who actually joined the Ukrainian army got got in this attack basically as soon as they made it into the country.
Russia couldn't give less of a shit whether or not their front line troops die. That's why they're using prisoners. This is about not letting information out.
OK, even if Russia's army was run by mustache-twirling villains who want every russian soldier dead, they also want to win the war, and it's really hard to win the war if the enemy knows where your soldiers are.
Not every Russian soldier, just the prisoners and foreigners tricked into being in the Russian military who actually might have something the world wants to hear about this war.
Also, Putin doesn't have a mustache.
Somehow "they could give away their positions" has never been a problem until now, almost two and a half years later.
I'm sure this isn't the first they they've increased restrictions on phones.
Same thing we've seen on the Ukraine side, same thing we saw during the Iraq war, same thing we're seeing in Israel. These things don't go into place instantly.
Instantly? The war began in February 2022 and it took this long for them to have a 'no cell phones on the front lines' policy because these things take time?
No wonder Russia's army is so ineffective if they can't even pass along that simple message in two years.
It took the US until like 2006 to get soldiers to stop filming themselves throwing puppies off cliffs (actual event), and even since there's been a number of incidents, and they're significantly more centralized than Russia's military. This isn't "pass along a message", militaries are a huge organizations, with disparate practices and politics. Just because there wasn't a high-level order increasing the penalty for having a phone on the front line doesn't mean that it wasn't restricted before, just because there is now doesn't mean it's going to be followed 100% of the time.
Ah 2006, the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal.
So now you're saying that it took them two and a half years to figure out how to say "if you use a cell phone on the front lines, you'll face punishment?"
Bingo!