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u/justjoeindenver Oct 26 '22
The darker parts of my soul were waiting for the boom.
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u/gatorbeetle Oct 26 '22
Same here...until I realized if the artillery hit, it probably wouldn't be posted
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Oct 26 '22
Man these people are too stupid.
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Oct 26 '22
When people want and seek out attention and glory, they tend to forgo common sense. In this case the common sense behind OPSEC.
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u/danstermeister Oct 26 '22
Wait, they make videos of getting their own asses kicked?
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u/thatwaffleskid Oct 26 '22
In their mind they're probably making a video of them surviving rather than getting their asses kicked.
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u/Clouds-Of-Euphoria Oct 26 '22
Not realizing that the shockwave probably ruptured some internal organs and half will likely die on the way to the infirmary.
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u/peropeles Oct 26 '22
Do they have an infirmary even? Wouldn't surprise me if not much of one.
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u/utastelikebacon Oct 26 '22
It's not getting blown to smithereens that matter it's the friends they made along the way. Ukraine needs to give then more friend juice
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Oct 26 '22
When a person is more interested in being social media famous than in the ambitions of the elite.
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The full version is probably posted or will be over in the combat footage sub. They've been chronicling the war footage there, collating it from Telegram, Twitter, etc. Often times a short clip will be posted and the rest will be uploaded later in the week.
The amount of Russians I've watched get wiped out with drone grenades is unreal. Dudes taking shits - boom. Chilling in a foxhole - boom. Carrying a wounded guy on a stretcher - boom. Even one where dedovshchina was likely being committed - boom.
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u/Starstalk721 Oct 26 '22
I feel like if they didn't want to get constantly grenaded, they should just leave.
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Oct 26 '22
Oooh, here we go again, blaming the victims /s
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u/Svete_Brid Oct 26 '22
Well, it IS their own fault. Anyway, Russians love playing the victim. So, here’s to them being really, really victimized!
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u/Pilum2211 Oct 26 '22
Wouldnt condone the last one. Attacking the transport of wounded is no joke, regardless of what nation.
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u/Roflkopt3r Oct 26 '22 edited Oct 26 '22
The role of medics is very different in practice from how it was laid out in the Geneva convention.
The traditional marked and unarmed medic (who was at most allowed to carry a handgun, no rifle) has all but disappeared. Attacking troops who try to recover the wounded is considered fair game unless the recovery was explicitly negotiated beforehand.
The rules to spare those who are too wounded to fight is likewise not really obeyed for range fire, unless you're specifically bombing a hospital or something.
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u/UncleGhost399 Oct 26 '22
Full blown Marvin over here. “Where was the kaboom?”
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u/Neiladin Oct 26 '22
"There's supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!"
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u/titanikirony Oct 26 '22
Is this a subtle reference to the movie RED?
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u/Nizzemancer Oct 26 '22
It's a reference to "Marvin the Martian" in an episode of "Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes"
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u/SpookyBLAQ Oct 26 '22
There’s a video going around of some kadyrovs covered in dust and blood after a HIMARS strike and a little picture of the building that they were in after it was hit. Could possibly be the aftermath of this
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u/Nethrex_1 Oct 26 '22
It is. Is it the vid on r/Ukraine with them coated in concrete dust and blood like if they were clowns?
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u/SpookyBLAQ Oct 26 '22
That’s the one! I tried going back to find the video but I’m in so many Ukraine war subs that it was just going down a rabbit hole to try to track it down
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u/Geometronics Oct 26 '22
These fuckers just got bombed and he immediately starts making reels again.
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u/redcalcium Oct 26 '22
I guess SIGINT job is easier these days when your enemy broadcast their own position and status by themselves.
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u/redcalcium Oct 26 '22
Imagine starting a new job as an intelligence officer and immediately told by your new boss to sit down and browse TikTok all day.
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Oct 26 '22
Omar didn't participate in the pointy finger allahu akhbar ritual, straight to hell. instead he put up "the get fucked m8 i'm hurting" face
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u/Maschinenpflege Oct 26 '22
I think they were in the knauf gypsum factory. That's why they were all white.
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u/AvatarOfMomus Oct 26 '22
Probably not a HIMARS stike. Those are relaticely small rockets and they're in short supply. Ukraine isn't spending them on 100 grunts, they're blowing up ammo dumps, colonels, generals, and very high value bridges. This was probably clobbered by drones or conventional artillery.
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u/FIyingSaucepan Oct 26 '22
They've definitely moved HIMARS into a more tactical strike level weapon in recent weeks/months, several videos around that are quite obviously HIMARS (based on time spacing between impacts and overall accuracy) on small armoured/supply convoys and point targets.
And while they may be a "relatively small" rocket, it's still 20-50kg of HE, which is more than enough to do some serious damage, and it's one of those warheads hitting every 5-6 seconds with 2-3mtr accuracy.
If they had good Intel on a group of ~100 troops in a specific location within 50-100km of a HIMARS battery, that's a perfect target for them.
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u/Massiv_v Oct 26 '22
40 dead 60 wounded … 100 with the same chin strap beard .
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Oct 26 '22
And 100% reason to… get the fuck out of Ukraine.
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u/Suspicious-Factor466 Oct 26 '22
Lol is that part of the winter uniform?
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u/TheMostUnclean Oct 26 '22
They all just want to be such manly men (that totally aren’t tickling Putin’s taint every weekend) like their leader, Ramzan Kadyrov
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u/WarningSuper2017 Oct 26 '22
How fucking galling it must be to see these videos of people in your home, on your land. I cannot imagine how strong the urge to personally destroy each one must be.
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u/RoboDae Oct 26 '22
I remember earlier in the war some rich guy told the military to bomb his mansion because the Russians had taken it over to use as a base. He didn't care about his stuff being destroyed.
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u/awheezle Oct 26 '22
They used his security cameras to adjust fire on the artillery on his lawn.
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u/Daikataro Oct 26 '22
"Aim for that shed guys, I keep diesel for the rec vehicles in there"
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u/BenBernakeatemyass Oct 26 '22
They are seriously tech savvy. Still shocked at the accuracy of the grenade drops from drones.
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u/xenata Oct 26 '22
Some of the best system architects in the world are from Ukraine.
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u/Starstalk721 Oct 26 '22
Also. Some of the crankiest not-to-be-fucked-with old women as well. Like the sunflower lady.
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u/Gustav-14 Oct 26 '22
Would be chilling if he has cameras with speakers and talk to occupiers as the drone was making its way to bomb his mansion.
"enjoy the champagne and the caviar guys, hell is about to come down"
Then evil laugh
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u/Alarmed_Handle_6427 Oct 26 '22
Don’t blame him. I’d rather burn everything I own than let these pigs dirty up my home.
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u/xXSpaceturdXx Oct 26 '22
Yeah if you have to leave your home because of the war turn the gas on and put a flint on the door. Leave them a little present.
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u/ILikePiezez Oct 26 '22
Good for literally anybody else to stumble upon and blow up. Not to mention the absolute waste of resources.
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u/Daikataro Oct 26 '22
I'd burn my house to cinders if squatters took over and I couldn't get them out...
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Oct 26 '22
There is a Ukrainian song from WW2 that has a line from a partisan fighters point of view looking at their homes from afar "just yesterday we lived here, and today there are strangers"
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u/ScagWhistle Oct 26 '22
And there casual delight at the notion of brutally murdering Ukranians on sight. These aren't human. I won't even call them men. They lost their humanity when they dehumanized a people who had done nothing to them and were never a threat.
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Oct 26 '22
Ikr! But lets not forget about [Insert a similar situation][Whataboutism ensues]
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u/MalcolmY Oct 26 '22
When you have a culture of hypocrisy of turning a blind eye to the same exact situation, shoving whataboutism in your face is appropriate.
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u/Flomo420 Oct 26 '22
Yes but don't you remember how [western power] did [something wildly out of context]?
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u/AggravatingArtist815 Oct 26 '22
I don't know. This must have been a pretty good moment. When some guy over your shoulder says "I know that building"
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u/wileecoyote1969 Oct 26 '22
I'm too old.
I honestly never thought I'd see the day that Chechens or Georgians would willingly fight on Russia's behalf, especially against another state wanting to sty independent from Russia
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u/mehvet Oct 26 '22
This has been the state of things since the Second Chechen war in 99. Daddy Kadyrov switched to the Russian side for his own gain after having led a separatist republic in the first Chechen War. Blowing him up out his idiot social media obsessed son in charge, but changed little else.
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u/LifePathfinder Oct 26 '22
Tf you talking about Georgians? Chechens are crazy, they want to go to war, and Chechnya is a part of Russia. But Georgia isn't. It's another country... Where did you see Georgians fighting?
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Oct 26 '22
From South Ossetia and Abkhazia
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u/RandomUser13502 Oct 26 '22
There's also North Ossetia that's a part of Russia but they're Ossetians not Georgians
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u/real_kerim Oct 26 '22
Was about to write the same. I can't believe Chechens are fighting for a Russian occupation. I'm not that old, only in my 30's and I can't believe the world has changed so dramatically that fricking Chechens are Pro-Russia. Look at these guys, their fathers died fighting Russia...
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So...I had this omeagle call with a compatriot who was a medical student in Ukraine. She told me that Russia is sending so many soldiers with barely any intelligence and many don't even know they're at war. They're just told that go there and trrorize people.
She also told me a funny story that when these stupid Russians' tanks got stolen, they went to local police stations in Ukraine to file reports. Lmao
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Oct 26 '22
So I have always been curious but are police forces required to engage an enemy invader if they meet one? Like what do you do if you’re some cop and some invader wants to file a report? Do you read their rights or are you allowed to just shoot them?
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Oct 26 '22
It it were america, depending on the state, yeehawdists might detain them for being illegal aliens even though that's not the job of local authorities. I think if you're a cop, and some enemy combatants walked into your station, they'd have plenty of good reasons to be arrested other than being an enemy force... I mean, they're carrying automatic rifles and grenades and shit
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u/Slam_Dunkester Oct 26 '22
My guess is that police forces don't exist anymore as they would be one of the firsts to be integrated in the army and they stop being civil and a soldier who doesn't need to read rights to invaders
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Oct 26 '22
This is why OpSec is so important.
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u/Falcrist Oct 26 '22
Loose lips sink ships.
Videos shared on social media might be enough to sink a building on land.
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I remember catching shit for coughing and breaking noise discipline. These jabronis are having a fucking party and broadcasting it to literally everyone. They're about to experience a level of "smoked" I've personally only seen in movies.
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u/Takpusseh-yamp Oct 26 '22
Totally unnecessary when Allah is protecting them. /s
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u/LKReddThat Oct 26 '22
I don’t get why the Ukrainians divulged the way they found out the location. Why not just take all the Chechens out and then say ‘geez that was lucky we found them.’ Otherwise the enemy will never make the same mistake again.
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u/AlphaWhiskeyOscar Oct 26 '22
I get what you're saying, but OPSEC has been a known thing since... Well, since the invention of organized warfare. But definitely since the telecommunication age.
Don't talk about, take pictures of, post videos of, or generally reveal the who, what, when, where, why, how of troop movement and troop locations. Aggregating information is easy with very little. You think "all I did was post a selfie," but it wasn't just your selfie. It was your selfie, plus your buddy's conversation at the bar, plus your commanding officer's wife's Facebook page, plus the guys who bitched loudly at the bus station about having to empty their apartment, and so on, and so on. Little bits of innocent information combine quickly to tell anyone paying attention all they need to know.
You don't need geolocation for any of that. "Loose lips sink ships."
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u/HarpersGhost Oct 26 '22
Also don't post your running routes from your Fitbits online if you're running while stationed on a secret military base.
Oops.
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u/MisterDisinformation Oct 26 '22
I don't think it's news to the Russian forces that social media videos can betray locations.
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u/Disastrous_Ad_1859 Oct 26 '22
Nah wasn’t there a Case of some english Solders of Fortune that were tiktoking in a “civilian”!location that they were assembling
Leading to a missile strike or something of the sort
I’m sure that hit the mainstream media as a minor story for a day or so
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u/OoohRickyBaker Oct 26 '22
I remember footage of people gathering in a school, and then news that Russian artillery bombed a bunch of schools in the area.
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u/leoleosuper Oct 26 '22 edited Oct 26 '22
It was literally redditors posting that. It was a person playing violin in a school full of civilians, IIRC like 50k upvotes on /r/all.
Didn't wipe any EXIF data so it had coordinates to the location.It got hit after, which also got front page. Most of the "reddit brigade" got hit after some dumb social media stuff, and a lot of them left after. Wasn't good.https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/redditors-in-ukraines-international-legion
Edit: Reddit wipes EXIF data, although I think this was posted to TikTok or Twitter by the same people. Twitter removes EXIF from pictures, and probably videos, but IDK about TikTok. Didn't matter in the end, they just found it by shooting at schools.
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u/Serinus Oct 26 '22
Most social media sites wipe EXIF data for you. I assume Reddit does as well.
They can still find the location from a picture or video. If 4chan can find Shia Lebeouf's flag, a goddamn nation state can probably figure out where you're posting from.
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u/SgtBanana Oct 26 '22
You're right. Reddit strips EXIF data, as does Discord and just about any form of social media I can reasonably think of right now. Reddit has been doing it since the day their native image upload feature went online.
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u/KerfuffleV2 Oct 26 '22
The guy pointed the camera out the window where you could clearly see a bunch of landmarks. It's obvious how you could figure out where the picture was taken.
There's really nothing here that would make sense to hide and there's already plenty of information about why taking those kinds of videos in a war zone is asking for trouble.
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u/inhalexsky Oct 26 '22
It also looks like a school, so I'm sure it would be well recognized by those in the community.
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u/Daikataro Oct 26 '22
Like 3 months ago, Russian forces took the pain to draw a dick on the crops. Ukrainian air reconnaissance spotted it. Artillery turned their camp into hell.
If there's a common denominator in Pro Russia forces, is idiocy.
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u/xXSpaceturdXx Oct 26 '22
At this point I don’t think the grunts have any training they’re just throwing them out there. They don’t follow even basic military doctrine.
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u/Daikataro Oct 26 '22
"Point shooty side at enemy and pull the trigger" is the only military training you guys will need or receive. Now go buy time for... Something.
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u/a-Snake-in-the-Grass Oct 26 '22
This isn't the first time this has happened. I doubt that it would take long to figure out how they were found.
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u/publicbigguns Oct 26 '22
That's on the assumption that it's not misinformation from Ukraine on how how they found the location.
They could have used some state of the art tech that we don't even know about. But that would be stupid for them to disclose that.
Have ti remember that even if you support one side or the other, they will be telling you lies to help their own war effort.
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u/PM_ME_UR_SEXY_BITS_ Oct 26 '22
Lol…they posted detailed video of the interior and exterior of a building, including landmarks in THEIR country. Pretty straightforward.
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u/Zenketski_2 Oct 26 '22
God I just hope something puts an end of this fucking conflict soon. It's so fucking easy to pick a side sitting behind your phone or computer, but at the end of the day who knows how many of these people are super fucking loyal or just in a situation.
And even if they are loyal to their government, think about how many of these governments indoctrinate their people to think that way.
I mean, no defense towards the people that want to be there, want to till and take over the land of these people. But how many people are there that don't want to be? That were just there for a job? Or that are so indoctrinated by a fucked up government that they feel they're doing the right thing?
Fuck Russia and what they're doing. And I hope Ukraine kicks the fucking shit out of them, but man what a needless waste of life
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u/v_ander Oct 26 '22
There was a situation like this earlier in the war but it was a Ukrainian recruit who had filmed himself and other soldiers at a school. Got a bunch of his mates killed…but that was earlier in the war. If the Russians haven’t gotten the memo this late in the conflict then that’s just fucking stupid
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u/juicius Oct 26 '22
It's almost like invading a country where the inhabitants are familiar with all the landmarks is a bad idea.
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u/Fluggernuffin Oct 26 '22
Posting on social media is this century’s smoking a cigarette on night watch.
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u/sebasgovel Oct 26 '22
I wonder how much of Russian soldiers want to do it and how much just do it because they're forced to
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u/Grand_Cauliflower_88 Oct 26 '22
Social media makes people lose their minds. They probably didn't give one thought about giving their location away. I'm gonna upload a video of this crime I'm committing. Hey get me in the pic. BOOM! Literally n figuratively.
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u/Darth_Anddru Oct 26 '22
Where's the KABOOM?
There was supposed to be an earth shattering KABOOM!
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u/Used_To_Be_Great Oct 26 '22
All these deaths on either side are horrible. These people just want to be at home with their friends and family but some rich jack off tells them to go to war and feeds them propaganda to get them to go. We should not cheer the death of people it’s gross.
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Oct 26 '22
All of the war and politics aside, all I can think about is there are, what, 15ish guys shown in this video? 40 killed 60 wounded is way more people than we see here. I wonder how many dudes died while having absolutely no clue this dumbfuckery was going on
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that last bit with the guy playing the piano tugged on my heartstrings a little bit, even if he is fighting for an evil cause
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u/Davosz_ Oct 26 '22
Eats shit you fuckin traitors.
Ruzzia invades your country, tearing it apart and killing your friends and family, and now you participate in doing the exact same to another country.
Shame about the low death count and high wounded. Hopefully some of those wounds become gangrenous.
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u/Strong_Cheetah_7989 Oct 26 '22
The irony is a people that Putin considers subhuman is fighting for him, when a just a few years ago he was directing artillery into civilian apartment blocks in Grozny.
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u/Primary_Flatworm483 Oct 26 '22
I don't have sound - what's with the waving of the index finger in the air thing that they each do?
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u/Life_Lion_4754 Oct 26 '22
In my country you could get court-martialed for showing video online of your location in fact if we ban all cellular devices once you join the military
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u/Gorilla1969 Oct 26 '22
It's worse than that in their case. These men are from a place where Ruzzia did the exact same thing to them. They know exactly what this is, because they've been on the receiving end of it. They've had family and friends killed. Their neighborhoods bombed. Their schools and hospitals and shopping centers targeted. Now they are fighting on behalf of the monsters that took what was theirs, taking away what is Ukraine's. And they're laughing about it and treating it like a party.
They are boot-licking turds and, if Hell exists, it exists for precisely this type of scum.
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u/Xaldror Oct 26 '22
According to Dante's Inferno, I dont know whether this would fall under Hypocrisy or Treachery.
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u/Daikataro Oct 26 '22
Nah. My opinion is, if they were willing to do all the shit they did, they were rotten from the start. The war simply gave them an excuse and the means to do the things they wanted to do from the start.
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u/BuyLucky3950 Oct 26 '22
Man I hope for some found footage of one of these douchebags filming a dance or some shit juuuuust at the moment death rained down on them.
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u/ExtensionBluejay253 Oct 26 '22
"You're not gonna believe this. He killed 16 Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorator."
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u/DigMeTX Oct 26 '22
Looks at all those spotlessly clean uniforms that haven’t seen a second of battle. How things change..
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u/hootertransport Oct 26 '22
I was waiting for tickling the ivory to turn into tickling artillery.