• Tuxman@sh.itjust.works
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    3 天前

    “The war is going so well, we don’t even need all this 1980’s futuristic technology! We are so good we can literally go medieval on these guys!”

    I can’t wait to see the russian knights in chainmail armor next week, that’ll show Ukraine, right?

  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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    The US Army still maintain a mule corps. It’s how we got a lot of supplies to the inland hurricane victims last year.

    That said, I’m surprised that hay and clover is cheaper than gas to make this at all efficient.

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      I would say there’s a massive difference between maintaining a mule corps so that in the rare event you want/need to transport heavy supplies through terrain where vehicles can’t go, you have the option, versus using mules as an alternative to vehicles.

      The former gives you an element of surprise and/or the possibility to resupply an otherwise cut off unit, much like the capabilities granted by special forces. The latter is a sign that you don’t have enough vehicles, and that your industrial base isn’t able to keep up with losses.

  • Flax@feddit.uk
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    3 天前

    “China is supplying the farms with equipment to harvest food for the donkeys which are being used for war. Let’s sanction China”

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    4 天前

    Brainless, foul-smelling and hateful creatures, who can’t be trusted not to shit wherever they stand. And the noise that they make is really offensive as well. The donkeys next to them are quite cute, though.

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    I wonder if they could use drones to manoeuver them into delivering the ammo to Ukrainians instead.

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      I look forward to the drone with a carrot suspended from it marching the ammo laden donkey over to UA lines for use against the orcs.

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        High accuracy rifle equipped baba yagas to deal with the orks, then send in the carrot mavik for the donkey.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Worked during WWII, I guess… Anyway, the dipshit leader of my country is now trying to bribe Ukraine for aid. Cause that’s what “aid” means.

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    Or they could just… Go home. Russia’s economy is going to be feeling the sting of this stupid war for a long time. The social implications of wiping out an entire generation of men is also going to have knock-on effects for a long time.

    I feel bad for the Russian people who wanted nothing to do with the war in the first place.

    I hope Putin accidentally falls outta a window on the top floor of the Kremlin after accidentally shooting himself in the back of the head twice.

  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Heartbreaking that those critters will die because the Russians are assholes. I bet the thought is that the soldiers can eat them if they have to so its a one way trip for those poor things.