gravitas_deficiency
Wow, they’ve really accelerated the enshitification, haven’t they?
USB-C now has the same connector directionality problem that USB-A does
I do have to admit that the reams of armchair general “experts” who don’t even appear to be affiliated with the military most of the time seem to be growing in number lately, and they all seem to share a fundamental lack of understanding about how two countries with rough parity between their conventional abilities would conduct a conventional military engagement that isn’t simply an insurgency suppression.
Grinding military conflict is, has been, and for a long time into the future will be the norm. Everyone seems to have forgotten that the American military playbook wherein you just rapidly and completely steamroll an opponent with like… everything short of nukes is very much not the norm of how military campaigns are generally conducted. The US is still, for now, a true superpower; the way we are able to execute effective unilateral military action is the exception, not the rule.
All things considered - especially the geopolitical complexity of the situation - Ukraine seems to be doing surprisingly well with the resources they’ve been afforded by their allies in the west, and the counteroffensive seems to be actually picking up steam in the last few days.
Oh, don’t worry, we do. It’s objectively idiotic.
Lmao I was born in the late 80s.
Also that’s like… not at all, in any way, what I was expressing. I was saying that for entities who either can’t or don’t want to utterly annihilate each other, in a tactical and strategic context, grinding conflicts will NEVER go out of style.