Grad user has opinion so bad they are diwnvoted in their hugbox
Grad user has opinion so bad they are diwnvoted in their hugbox
lemmy.ml
Almost 100,000 young men flee Ukraine in two months - Lemmy
I don't usually do this, but this is too funny not to call it out.
Ah yes, the industrial power of the nation literally sending 100 year old rifles and 70 year old tanks to war in 2025.
Well there it is, the dumbest thing anyone has to read today. Kinda takes the pressure off, doesn't it? Thanks @cowbee@lemmy.ml, you've once again proved the old adage that if you can't be a good example you can at least be a horrible warning.
I’d put it as a contender for the dumbest thing people have read all year and that includes white house statements.
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I think that what may be going on here is that Russia has had more artillery shell manufacturing capability than NATO (or did earlier in the year; not sure what the present situation is). Mark Rutte --- as Secretary General of NATO --- highlighted this about halfway through 2025, while urging members to increase their production capacity:
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/07/16/is-russia-producing-a-years-worth-of-nato-ammunition-in-three-months
As best I can tell, Russian media grabbed the quote about artillery shell manufacture and ran with it, presenting it in such a way as to convey an impression that Russia has more military-industrial capacity as a whole than NATO does. I imagine that that plays well with domestic audiences, but...
@AWistfulNihilist @tal What's good to keep in mind is that Russian (actually: Soviet) artillery is extremely imprecise.
If you want to hit a specific target using Russian-made artillery, you need to shoot, on average, about 10 times as many shots as you would with western artillery. The Russian artillery is just as good as the western one when your goal is to obliterate everything in a large area, but if you've got a specific target, the 10x multiplier does apply!
So, the Russia is very capable of destroying cities with its artillery, but that won't win you any wars. If you want to compare Russian ammo production capacity in terms of how many enemy military objects they are able to destroy, you need to divide the Russian production numbers by ten.
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"NATO can't fight a war", but also, "NATO will conquer and subjugate the Russian people"?
Which is it? 🤔
Like with all authoritarians, their enemies are simultaneously both weak and strong.
If every nato country went to a war time economy it would be over before russia could blink. Grade A copium from cowbee
Quick check, who's manufactured a tank this decade? Show of hands.
This is literally loony tunes. China makes up 27% of global manufacturing capacity. The US makes up 17% and the EU is 16%. Russia is 1.7%.
This is your brain on tankie.
One just has to love their certainty on predicting nthe future
This guy's a lunatic
Russia's best showcase of military power vs 5 minutes of USA training exercises.
I would be happier if they didn't use it to obliterate children in Gaza, but you can't deny the equipment advantage.
thats a dumb video though the editing is cool