Turns out war is a lot harder when you're not shooting at family parties and kids in school.
NaturalsNotInIt
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There's some :chefs-kiss: reddit posts in those threads from these clowns crying about not being on the side with air superiority, technical advantage, a full modern military, etc. and expecting that they were gonna go to Ukraine basically as advisers, patrolmen, run recon missions, etc, not be missile fodder. Like they thought it was gonna be like an American in Afghanistan!
On the bright side, a lot of them were likely former US/Western Special Forces "operators", so everyone that gets corrected by a Russian missile is one fewer potential stormtrooper.
You know it's good shit and excellent politics when you have to click a link to explain what it is lol.
They do. It's the same dynamic as Hoteps and online Nazis.
You’ve got a bunch of guys who think they’re civilized geniuses fighting against brainless barbarians, tricking them wouldn’t be hard with enough study
This sums up the American foreign policy project in general. People assume it's because of the Conservatives/modern GOP but it's actually deeply part of the "Progressive" movement. "Woke imperialism" has been then game of the game for 400 years because we Americans are morally righteous, a shining beacon of hope for all mankind, and we're gonna come save you and make sure you live a moral life too.
Ban every veteran from public employment and political office for life and put them all under FBI surveillance imo. Only way to be safe from our biggest domestic threat.
The Post-Keynesian arguments are the same dreck as earlier Keynesians, namely that the market allocates resources based on "marginal utility" or "preference". These people live in a fantasy land where the market magically determines the value of all products, sets the price accordingly, and there's an omnipotent force (the State/central bank) who is supposed to step in if Mr. Market isn't doing his self-care and keeping up with therapy.
As TankieTanuki said, these criticisms ultimately get back to the idea that price is value, which is something that Marxists fundamentally disagree with (fwiw, stock market gurus like Warren Buffett are on the same side as Marx, "value investing" requires price/value mismatches on a fundamental level!).
The ecological economics theory from Wiki sounds like some ecofash b.s. on first read. "Labor doesn't create value because labor takes energy to produce" - no shit, that's the "v" part of the "c+v+s". "Cultural differences can change the use-value of goods" - yes to some extent, but this sounds an awful lot like "those primitive people don't value those resources".
First order of business is to teach local troops how to speak a proper language, English. Plus, the dumb Russians won't be able to understand transmissions in English and it's easier to distinguish the enemy.