(November 4, 2022 at 1:52 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: That's what they are. That's what they've been (poorly) equipped for. The ukranian tdf is much the same, for different reasons. The tdf rallies for the ukranian callups because they've been given the tools of success and they've used them to great effect, because they aren't expected to simply die hiding in a "fortified" position and losing their very expensive gear in the process. The russians, for their part, know that the important troops were already shredded and they expect exactly what they've been called up to be used for. Thing is, even if it weren't true, which it is, troops would still feel that way and communicate with each other that way. There are no fantasists on a firing line. Even the most uneducated groundpounders...i think...would surprise people with their insight, in that event, if "people"..rather than joes, were ever there to hear it. When you have orders that end in your death you get a rare sort of clarity. You'll still do it, you wouldn't still be there if you wouldn't, but you know what you're doing...at that point.
The best any of 'em can hope for is to survive to be cadre for the next tranche of draftees (and they're coming up soon, it's draft season again) ... only to be sent right back into the meat-grinder. I'm sure they know for a fact that they are only eggs to be thrown at the brick wall. Scuttlebutt doesn't often traffic in bullshit, because believing the wrong shit is fatal.
