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Russians are employing this dastardly new technology called "mines" which no army on earth has encountered before, least of all those of the NATO members like France, Germany and the UK.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Who are we dunking on here? That lemming or NATO? Because the lemming is absolutely correct.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The lemming is characterizing the NATO training as "superior" despite it being clearly worse for the actual situation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you're missing their point. IDK how good NATO training is but it doesnt matter. Mine fields and lack of air superiority aren't "training" issues. They are high level strategic issues that NATO has no answer for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If your training assumes conditions that are counter to the situation, you don't have superior training in anything but a highly idealist sense. Training is essentially ingraining in the trainee an algorithm of responses to different scenarios and the ability to reliably execute those responses. If someone is trained to be a world-leading expert in archery-based warfare in tropical rain forests (and just that), characterizing them as "better trained" than a Russian soldier in the context of this war is about as true as saying that a boxer or even a chef is "better trained." We can theoretically say that there are things that they have more extensive knowledge on than the Russian has on military tactics, etc. but that training has very little actual application and the Russian's training is completely applicable.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

oh dang the enemy used mines! my one weakness!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You seem to be under the delusion thats there's well known solution to mine fields. Russia did a good strategy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm merely stating that Ukraine shouldn't be doing an offensive against mined areas without air superiority. "NATO tactics" apparently seems to be code for "having more jets and drones and fighting poor unarmed militias"