• Tire@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Russia is weaker because the ruble is tanking, there aren’t developing better technology because we won’t give them the tools to do so, they are using up their military equipment faster than they can replace it and they are literally losing hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

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      1 year ago

      there aren’t developing better technology because we won’t give them the tools to do so

      Ah yes of course the dirty dumb slavs are just so stupid they can’t possibly invent anything new, they need the Glorious Western Master Race to give them the tools to do so.

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      According to Ukrainian medics, 90% of casualties are caused by artillery shells…

      According to Ukrainian command, Russia is firing 5 times more artillery per day…

      Russia is allegedly the side that has lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

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      there aren’t developing better technology because we won’t give them the tools to do so

      You’re talking about an industrial and scientific base that achieved every first in the space race except a manned landing on the Moon. Russia isn’t the USSR, but they haven’t undergone a half century of deindustrialization like the U.S. has, and their education system didn’t just disappear, either.

      literally losing hundreds of thousands of soldiers

      Whatever else you believe about this war, you have to understand that casualty figures are speculative, we have no way of independently verifying them, and anyone who might bother to independently verify them is invested in one side or the other and is thus likely to lie.

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      Holy shit that’s a bad take. Who has hypersonics, is it the west yes or no?

      Was it the west that lagged behind in material sciences and failed to realize titanium welding could be a game changer in submarine technology?

      Who is it that has been recently and repeatedly proven to lag behind in anti-air solutions? Kinda one of the most important parts of modern war (even artillery plays second fiddle if it has to fear air superiority).

      Supposed western tech superiority only has a single shining example in GPS being unveiled during Iraq and only the collapse of the USSR is why they didn’t get there on an equivalent time frame. They won every part of the space race except the moon, and are still the one and only for Venus among other accomplishments.

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        1 year ago

        You mean the hypersonic missile that was shot down by Ukrainian air defense? 🤣