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  That tactic only works against soldiers who are poorly motivated. The Ukrainian soldiers are highly motivated to protect their lands. This will just lead to more Russian deaths, which Putin does not care about.
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  I wonder if Ukraine is autopsying any of the opposing casualties to see if they were on something. >
  
  Probably not. Russian troops have put explosive traps on any corpse they find. >
  
  Really? >
  
  Oh yes, just one of many war crimes Russia has perpetrated. >
  
  Mostly they do that to Ukrainian corpses in occupied areas, ironically trying to cover up war crimes with more war crimes. >
  
  Staggering. >
  
  Foreigners,  convicts, mental patients, etc. They don't care how many die. >
  
  Best of all they’re private contractors! Easier for the Russian government to cover up their deaths. >
  
  And partly resolve overcrowding in jails >
  
  The upside for the prisoners still in Russia is they no longer need to sleep in shifts to have a bed. >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 78%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  A Ukrainian soldier compared fighting Russia's Wagner Group to something like a "Zombie movie." "They're climbing above the corpse of their friends, stepping on them," the soldier told CNN. He detailed an "Uninterrupted," 10-hour battle in which Russian mercenaries "Didn't stop coming."
  A Ukrainian soldier who recently had a run-in with a group of Wagner mercenaries said the fighters "Didn't stop coming" during a battle in Bakhmut, Ukraine.
  "We were fighting for about 10 hours in a row. And it wasn't like just waves - it was uninterrupted. So it was just like they didn't stop coming," the soldier, named Andriy, told CNN of fighting troops from the Wagner Group, a private military contractor linked to the Kremlin that consists of mercenaries and former prisoners.
  
  
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  Drugs are a hellova drug. Seems to be the only logical answer, we're in 2023 not 1940... I would think we value our lives a little more now instead of just walking into bullets knowingly >
  
  Russia >
  
  Well, at least the guys in front of you will just shoot you. They won't beat you to death with a hammer. >
  
  Or rape you. >
  
  Seems like the toughest, manliest guys in the world are sodomites. >
  
  I heard a stat recently that said the convicts Wagner recruited are being killed at a rate of 90%.  I was trying to figure out what tactics would result in 90% KIA.  This is it.  Just send the convicts (drugged up) right into the Ukrainian machine guns to be bullet sponges.
  Notice how by in this instance the tactic ALMOST worked.  The Ukrainian soldiers were all out of ammo.  Wagner just retreated a few minutes too early to get the win. >
  
  Standard Russian tactics, the man with the gun shoots while the man with the bullets follows. When the man with the gun dies, the man with the bullets picks up the gun and shoots >
  
  Source? And don't say "Enemy at the Gates" >
  
  Sounds like they are cutting Krokodil with Cocaine. >
  
  More like meth.. a dose of cocaine lasts about 15 minutes as opposed to meth lasting 15 hours, sometimes more, from a single dose. >
  
  But can a tweaker engage in a war battle? I have never seen a tweaker look too threatening. To me they look confused, jittery, appear to be squinting like they are looking into an illuminated light bulb, animated, and seem unsure of their balance. I imagine the Ukraine troops would have a very strong advantage over a Wagner Meth Mercenary. PCP is another story. >
  
  Blitzkrieg ran on tweakers. >
  
  The lesson was learnt pretty quickly though. They actually stopped issuing it regularly after 1941. Here's a quote from wiki - 
  A soldier going to battle on Pervitin usually found himself unable to perform effectively for the next day or two. Suffering from a drug hangover and looking more like a zombie than a great warrior, he had to recover from the side effects
  Though that said they did start experimenting again in 1944 with various combinations of meth, opiates like oxycodone, and cocaine. 
  Interestingly enough Hitler was also pumped full of this stuff (along with other wonderful things like mashed up pig glands as a hormone booster) pretty much for his entire career from 1933 to 1945. There's some thinking now a lot of the way he acted and a lot of the health issues he was starting to develop could just as much have been from the frequent drug abuse as the earlier thoughts that he was maybe starting to develop Parkinsons or some other neurodegenerative disorder. >
  
  The main difference here is Russia doesn’t really seem to care how effective they are long term or if they even live very long. >
  
  Russia is losing the bet that they have more soldiers than the Ukrainians have bullets. >
  
  The scene described is human wave tactics that take no account for lives of attacking soldiers.
  Lives are extremely cheap in Russian military.  Just infantry attack with no supporting artillery or tank support.  This tactics were also used extensively by Japanese army in WW II as "Banzai Charge."
  Russians have not learned their lessons from terrible loss of life during WW II. >
  
  
  This tactics were also used extensively by Japanese army in WW II as "Banzai Charge."
  
  Ehhhh... this one at least has a bit more history and nuance behind it.
  The Japanese Banzai Charge was based off of what worked in the Russo-Japanese war. Some old generals remembered those tactics and thought the same trick would work on the Americans.
  By 1944 to 1945, the Japanese learned that it didn't work on American positions and really stopped doing Banzai Charges. >
  
  Banzai charges were only really effective in China against poorly trained, led, motivated, and armed Chinese soldiers and in the pacific were only used against the Americans in desperate “were going to die anyways” gambits like last stands. >
  
  Yeah. 
  My overall point is that the Japanese Banzai charge has its history because it worked, at least against some of Japan's foes. But the minute it stopped working (ie: vs USA), the Japanese were pretty smart and changed tactics very quickly.
  
  Meanwhile, Soviet Russia in WW2 was over there throwing... what was it? 18 Million soldiers to the meat grinder? >
  
  A huge chunk of Russian deaths in WW2 was directly committed by the Germans. They bombed the crap out of Russia and killed indiscriminately.
  Not that Russia has a history of anything other than extreme violence, but the Nazis were definitely worse in this situation. Russia either did what they did or faced certain annihilation, Germany was going to wipe that slate clean. >
  
  It was the USSR which also included the Ukraine as a member it was not Russia solely. >
  
  ... Seriously, were going to be this particular. >
  
  Yes it's called history Kazakhs, Uzbek, Armenians, Georgians, Ukrainians all fought and died for the USSR to label them as Russian shows contempt for their heritage and sacrifice in winning ww2 it is disingenuous. >
  
  German troops were given a (at the time) over the counter drug called Pervitin. It is methamphetamine. It was how the blitzkrieg succeeded so well at the beginning of the war. 
  Wouldn’t surprise me if the Russians and Wagner group went this route again. >
  
  The Blitzkrieg was successful because of superior tactics - the French prepared for WW1 style trench warfare with sub-optimal and outdated equipment and armor.  The Germans had produced the latest in battle tank technology and steamrolled through the trenches while the French had minimal AT with AP capabilities.
  I'm sure the meth helped, but it was not a deciding factor.  Had the Germans not had better tech/equipment and sheer numbers, the French likely would have stopped them regardless of how drugged/amped up the Germans were.