Because people insist on blaming the soldiers, a brotherhood to which he belongs as I understand, for the catastrophic blunders of Washington D.C.
This is positively ludicrous. "I believe the Ukrainian people should submit to being conquered by Russia because they deserve to have their entire existence sacrificed in order to in some vague, indirect way 'weaken and discredit' LGBT people halfway around the world, because my take on American politics should drive the entire world." Would you likewise support the Nazis because they *did* in fact suppress and exterminate LGBT people as part of the Holocaust?
The war ended in a return to the status quo, but America failed everything it aimed to achieve; hell, that little stunt actually cost them a lot. That's not a victory.
I mean from a top-down perspective. It looks exactly like something from Generals or Tiberian Dawn, and looking through a drone camera is like an EVA interface.
Well, yeah -- you're a vet. I'm just a civvie.
To be fair, in my home state, if it is incorporated, it is called a "city" in my state, no matter how many or how few people live in it.
Well, they did use a modified DooM wad and then various FPS engines (America's Army) for training. It's unsurprising.
If the US had lost at New Orleans, there would have almost certainly been nasty consequences despite the treaty. Victory just cemented it.
Just for the record, you're quoting Carlton Meyer....this fellow?
Carlton Meyer - Antiwar.com Blog
www.antiwar.com
Same guy who rails about conspiracy theories and "The evil American warmongers", and claims with the recent conflict in Ukraine "The tank is dead"....yeah, they've been saying that or trying to say that since the 1930s.
Not saying it completely invalidates your argument, but...
70,000 would absolutely be considered a small city here in the US. Town makes me think of someplace with, like, 10,000 people or so.You know, that's the second time you've called Bakhmut a city. You realise it had a prewar population of all of about 70,000 right? At the greatest extremities it's maybe 8×8km. This is what it looked like in April after... What, a year of fighting?
The Russians weren't "levelling" the town. They aren't capable of doing so. Nor are they capable of the kind of danger close arms integration between artillery and infantry you seem to be suggesting. In reality, they were blasting likely looking targets, then afterwards doing exactly what you said: sending in zerg rushes of untrained idiots, often prisoners with effectively no training and basically no proper kit. And indeed, behind them were the more "professional" wagner mercenaries, and they were indeed quite willing to kill their own people. Every part of that has been documented and presented.
I do not get your weird myopia. You're grandstanding for a bunch of losers, who either don't care about you or hate you. If you think they share your values and objectives, you've simply deluded yourself about what theirs are. Not so long ago, it was understandable to think Russia truly were an impressive fighting force, and not to realise their only concern is their own aggrandisement and power. It's obvious now they're a pathetic shell of their former selves, and even more clear their supposed beliefs and values are just an excuse for an ever more authoritarian, draconian regime. How stupid do you have to be, that them is the hill you want to fight and die on? Do you think you're fighting against leftism by supporting the ghost of the USSR, or are you just the sad, lonely teenager your immaturity suggest, edge-lording on the internet so you can jerk off over your imaginary superiority and brilliance in seeing the "truth"?
