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  Worked in WW2
  
  That's not how the USSR won. It was a narrative the germans started using to deflect from their own blatant failures.
context: Worse than meat, at least the meat has value so gets cared for >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine - The city of Bakhmut was home to around 70,000 people before it found itself on the front line of Russian President Vladimir Putin's unprovoked war to seize Ukrainian territory.
  Seva Kozhemyako, founder and commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' Khartia Battalion, and his men are among the forces battling to keep Russia from seizing what little remains of Bakhmut.
  Ukrainian forces told CBS News the Russian men are being treated like meat.
  
  
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  It's winter so I believe they would be classified as meat popsicles >
  
  Nice 5th element reference >
  
  SMOKE YOUUU! >
  
  Wrong answer. >
  
  ZERO STONES!!! ZERO CRATES!!! >
  
  I don’t know why people are looking up from that fact. 
  It has always been russias tactics to either use human waves or scorched earth tactics. >
  
  Thing is, it's not sustainable or efficient in the modern age. If Ukraine had already been a modern Western military when this started, it wouldn't have mattered how many bodies were thrown at Ukraine. 
  You're right though, I don't see how people are seeing this as a positive thing. >
  
  If you're a country that isn't bordering Russia,  or politically against Russia it means that your people/country side aren't getting killed/destroyed. >
  
  That's true, but I think the issue is that those people should be side eying the fuck out of any nation that has nukes and is willing to treat all of its citizens like expendable munitions. That sort of detached cynicism doesn't lead to good decision making. >
  
  True but you also have to look at how that nation is acting with regard to its equipment as well.  Russia has been more than willing to throw its people into the grinder but the more modern stuff has been largely held back this last year. A lot of the tactics have been terrible,  but the equipment is pretty fascinating,  there's a lot of stuff that just isn't functioning. I could see Russia trying to launch stuff,  and have it fail. >
  
  It's not really fascinating to me at all. Well, I guess that's not true. It's fascinating in the same way a horrific trainwreck with hundreds of thousands of casualties would be. Never in a million years would I have ever believed that a 'world power' could be this bad at war. 
  There are a lot of military criticisms that can be leveled at the US, but the US drove it's military to the opposite end of the world and conquered two nations in the span of a few months. And one of them had a massive and (by standard of soviet spec militaries) 'modern' military. 
  Russia can't even conquer a smaller neighbor, and they had literal years to prepare. I don't know if I should be horrified that they're so shit at it, or horrified that my country is so good at it. Probably both. Yeah, definitely both. >
  
  Russia engaging in WWII 2.0 tactics by throwing millions upon millions of undertrained, underequipped bodies at the situation and hoping. >
  
  Not exactly. The Red Army in WW2 was a master at deception tactics. 
  Yes, they did not care about casualties, but they would deceive the Germans on where they would attack and attack elsewhere behind massed artillery and armor backed by infantry. 
  This does not work when ISR platforms can see what you are doing 24/7. Also, massed artillery is vulnerable to accurate counter battery fire. >
  
  Worked in WW2. Definitely need ways to counter it.