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Cake day: December 9th, 2023

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  • The video goes over it, hard numbers are very difficult to pin down for open source analysis but let me ask you a question, when a veteran Russian SAM crew gets eliminated along with a functioning top of the line SAM system what do you think the quality of the replacement likely is this deep into the war?

    Learning to operate a SAM effectively is like getting a college degree, you can’t really bullshit it the way Russia likes to bullshit everything and you need to understand a localized airspace well to actually protect it rather than just blindly launch missiles into it.









  • I feel like the only way to have your life valued in the Russian military is to successfully infiltrate behind Ukrainian lines while most of the soldiers around you are killed, regroup with others and establish yourself as the dominant leader by any means necessary and then make contact with the “worthless” Russian soldiers that haven’t passed through the crucible of the frontline yet.

    Under these conditions how would you survive that much longer than any other Russian charging the frontlines? Unless you succeed in surving the battle royale of penetrating Ukrainian frontlines (a very bad bet) the longer you survive the more evidence there is for the Russian military that you are useless for not dying in the act of trying to infiltrate already.

    This is likely already a memorial to dead soldiers, there isn’t any way out alive unless you get captured by Ukraine.