Sine_Fine_Belli@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoRussia has depleted its tank stocks: the industry is not covering combat lossesmilitarnyi.comexternal-linkmessage-square194fedilinkarrow-up1922arrow-down112
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minus-squareNaevermix@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 day agoAnd yet, moving the front is almost impossible without them. All vehicles struggle with drones but at least tanks won’t go down from machine gun fire, and without vehicles were pretty much back to WW1 tactics, fighting over inches.
minus-squarelumony@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day ago and without vehicles were pretty much back to WW1 tactics, fighting over inches. Which is kind of what the war in Ukraine has become. Maybe one day we’ll learn as a species that there is no good way to fight a war and we should just avoid it altogether. Most of us are just fighting over what the ruling class wants us to fight over, anyways.
And yet, moving the front is almost impossible without them. All vehicles struggle with drones but at least tanks won’t go down from machine gun fire, and without vehicles were pretty much back to WW1 tactics, fighting over inches.
Which is kind of what the war in Ukraine has become.
Maybe one day we’ll learn as a species that there is no good way to fight a war and we should just avoid it altogether.
Most of us are just fighting over what the ruling class wants us to fight over, anyways.