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[–] smokeppb@hexbear.net 134 points 10 months ago (5 children)

It comes down to blood. Which side can bleed more. And the answer is Russia. Someone can correct me on this story, but it goes like this… A country goes to war agains China. Every day the Chinese lose one million fighters. After 100 days the enemy surrenders to China. Suffering and dying is part of the Russian psyche. They will bleed their own country dry and consider it a patriotic gesture.

They actually still believe they are dying in droves, just naruto running into the bullets in human wave attacks.

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 108 points 10 months ago (4 children)

"The slavic brainpan is predisposed towards human wave attacks and death" is...certainly a take to have

[–] invo_rt@hexbear.net 77 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I hear chuds parrot that line, inserting Russia instead of Slavic brainpan, and people including libs nod along because they saw Jude Law in Enemy at the Gates in the early oughts.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 73 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They used to say it about China during the Korean War. Boomers will swear up and down that the PLA sent waves of guys to die until the Americans ran out of bullets as a deliberate tactic.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 68 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It stems from the racism lobe of the crackkker brainpan

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Half that, half an inability to comprehend that the other side is trying, too.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

Those [SLURS] didn't stop assaulting our position when they began taking losses! Why would anyone fight to the death for a cause?!?!?!!

That said, I've heard that one of the real reasons for the brutal assault waves was bad field communications - The PLA sends 100 guys forward. There aren't enough radios to go around, so the officer has orders to retreat if they can't advance, and if they don't hear from him they'll send another assault wave to back him up and push the assault in 10 minutes.

Well, the officer and his company get wrecked by American defenses, everyone's either dead or fighting, no one goes back to say "it's no good here, we can't advance", so the next wave gets to go ahead ten minutes later to advance. And all these PLA troops get stuck in and aren't able to convey information back to their assembly area to stop the assault bc of all the chaos. Doubly so for night assaults or in shitty weather or shitty terrain.

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 16 points 10 months ago

Which is located right beside the anterior jingoist cortex!

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 16 points 10 months ago

"We got owned because the enemy used the oldest and shittiest military tactic in human history. Here's how that's unfair to us..."

[–] smokeppb@hexbear.net 60 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This dude's definition of Slavic is anywhere east of Prague. Chinese Slavs, amazing.

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 31 points 10 months ago

The Sino-turkick-slavic indo-asiatic horde

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

geordi-no dividing up Europe and Asia based on use of human wave tactics

geordi-yes dividing up Europe and Asia based on whether shoes are allowed in the house

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 53 points 10 months ago

Libs sure do love their literal Nazi propaganda.

[–] pixelghost@hexbear.net 39 points 10 months ago

Just waiting for them to call us candle-eaters at this point.

[–] frogloom@hexbear.net 66 points 10 months ago (1 children)

what story goes like that? what the fuck are they talking about?

[–] edge@hexbear.net 86 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The racist story of "those hoards in the east don't value human lives as much as we do".

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 56 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"those hoards in the east don't value human lives as much as we do"

Coming from the part of the world that brought us:

CW: Genocide

  • The Holocaust
  • The Congo Free State
  • The Bengal Famine
  • The Korean Genocide
  • The Native American genocides
  • I could keep going but I think I would actually exceed the character limit
[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 46 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There was a line in a German newspaper recently that said "Israel is a democracy, where every life matters" agony-shivering

[–] KatsInSpace@hexbear.net 27 points 10 months ago

its true if you don't believe anyone else is a real person

[–] CrimsonSage@hexbear.net 61 points 10 months ago

But that's how the Russians fight according to the nazis the Russians beat!! Nazis wouldn't LIEEEEE?!?!

[–] pixelghost@hexbear.net 52 points 10 months ago

You mean that's not how it works? Why would Nazis lie... deeper-sadness

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Every war is literally a sacrifice lol. Whether the war is cynical or for defense or for revolution, your purpose as a soldier is to sacrifice yourself if necessary, and your purpose as a commander is to efficiently sacrifice your soldiers.