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I think that China could do absolutely untold damage to the American psyche and illusion of invulnerability if it simply instantly obliterated these clowns on Taiwan from hundreds of kilometers away with a cloud of drones dense enough to block out the sun. America treats the navy seals like they are all Master Chief, when in reality they are just guys who can carry a log and swim for a long time or some shit. Maybe that matters when you’re like… raiding a compound of a guy who has been on the run for decades while he’s asleep with Neon Genesis Evangelion playing on the TV, but genuinely what are these guys going to do to actually fight back against China? China will never even let them see a single PLA soldier lmao.

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    Remember when all those ex-spec ops idiots volunteered for Ukraine and then either got got or fled home whining about “russian war doctrine” (being able to contest air superiority)
    Laughed my ass off about that canadian sniper who died a few days after arriving. Yeah dude you shoot brown kids and think you’re a badass, fuck you

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      My fav was a western Nazi who tried to stop a couple of Ukrainian conscripts from retreating so they just shot him and kept going.

      Once again the Russian blocking units are entirely projection.

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        Blocking units were real, but didn’t shoot people. They were partially a mobile reserve of veterans to shore up the front line if it was weakened, partially for grabbing lost or deserting troops and pointing them to collection areas that would figure out who they were and get them back to their unit, and partially guarding important stuff from any nazies that managed to get through the lines to do recon or sabotage.

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          Yeah westerners will twist absolutely anything the USSR did. They were effectively just reserve units to plug holes, and somehow that turned into machine guns mowing down their own Asiatic hordes.

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        Then going home to go on a podcast to talk about how “their expertise better suits the war in an advisory position”

        Reddit brigade was peak comedy

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          Really a perfect microcosm for the global South resisting imperialism today. The west goes about committing man made horrors beyond our comprehension, but as soon as foreign powers do anything besides role over and die quickly (Libya, Iraq, Yugoslavia) or, at the very least, remain in a state of perpetual uneven warfare with little meaningful retaliation, they shit and piss themselves. The west doesn’t even know what to do about peer warfare in Ukraine other than cry about it and mindlessly escalate, and they’re utterly useless in responding to Ansar Allah, Hezbollah, and Iran (when they DO actually act). The west can only bully and lash out at those who are unarmed and weak, but as soon as one of their victims displays true intent and capability of self-defense they cry and play victim. Pathetic.

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            Absolutely. As soon as the bully gets outnumbered, or stood up against in any way, the tail goes between the legs.

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        Throwback to the dumbass lemmitor who insisted Ukraine had superior training, it just “wasn’t suited to fighting against the russian military doctrine”. The logic was completely circular.
        That was my top voted post on my previous account, early federation was a blast.

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          wojak-nooo “You don’t understand! My training in computer science is superior to your training in weightlifting!”

          ppb-gigachad “Maybe, but this is a weightlifting competition.”