some international survivors saying they were used as a "sacrificial unit."

used as a sacrificial unit

Bitch it’s called being in the ukranian army, this is what you wanted

"To the last man" means you're all sacrificial. Shame nobody except communists were able to figure that out. Again.
- Everyone else doesn’t believe in material conditions. “To the last man” is inspiring when it doesn’t get translated to what happens on the ground.

I remember a bunch of Iraq/Afghanistan war vets going out in the first couple of months, getting hit with airstrikes and artillery and then immediately noping out lmao

Those articles they wrote about how they didn't have access to airstrikes to "shape the battlefield", being unable to just call in a medivac helicopter for every stubbed toe, being told to hold a trench to the death instead of going on special operations missions, and otherwise finding out that war is actually dangerous when your opponent can fight back were
- Every US army tough guy immediately turning around and fleeing the moment they find out there’s no cafeteria in the trenches and no children to murder
Turns out war is a lot harder when you're not just murdering women and children.
Apparently it's a lot harder when your side isn't the one with air, armor, and artillery superiority
Who knew

Extremely critical support to Ukraine in its struggle against redditors.

I'd rather a Westoid war criminal get fed into the meat grinder than some Ukrainian dude whose only failings were being born on the wrong side of the Deniper and not running fast enough from the "recruiters".
- Westerners:
But
proved themselves worthy to the investment to go IPO

Turns out war doesn't play out the same way when the other side can shoot back, who knew.

“Veterans” who spent 15 years shitting in an air-conditioned port-a-potty fail to fight actual war

- BURGER KING DEPLOYED
- Bro that is not a flex when you can’t even supply your men with artillery lmfao
- That's so fucking dystopian. Beyond dystopian even. Like, it would be too on-the-nose in a dystopian novel about corporate armies fighting each other for profit.
- American soldiers deserve to eat nothing but burger king

What do you mean I can't just call in air support to bomb these guys?

They don't even have McDonald's restaurants in their bases!!
- Where is this trench’s Walmart?

Awww did a bunch of serial killers that thought they were just going to commit war crimes against unarmed civilians and call them combatants find out what an actually equipped army is like to fight against.

as it turned out, being a veteran of the Culture Wars, resisting in the War on Christmas, leading the Bathroom Genital Inspection Militias, and fighting for Prayer in Public Schools did not actually confer any relevant skill or tactical awareness in the Burgerlanders.

it was in this prideful confusion the International Brigades found themselves obliterated by a 22 year old doing a trig problem to drop artillery on their position.

In their defence, how much skill and tactical awareness do you need when the order of the day is to sit in a foxhole and get shelled by a 120mm mortar?

some international survivors saying they were used as a "sacrificial unit"

Mercenaries are learning why people buy mercenaries.

Unlimited death on every mercenary.

"What do you mean war hasn't changed?"

What, didn't they play Fallout?
- But they did play Metal Gear Solid 4

I'd understand it if this article was written two years ago at the height of "Slava Ukraini hero Zelenskyyyyyy in camo", but why would you assume it'd be easy in 2024?

In their defense according to the media it's been a completely one sided war and ukraine is just losing ground because thousands of unarmed Russian soldiers were doing human wave attacks.
You know, the exact same reason nazi Germany said they were losing.
- i remember a while ago bbc ran a story about how russians were reduced to attacking ukrainian fortifications with shovels because they'd run out of guns and buried deep in the article it said something like "the Ukrainian government has not stated where this engagement took place and the BBC has been unable to independently verify it"
  edit: i found the article
- Damn these unarmed human wave attacks be poppin off
- There was a
  thread recently where people were unironically parroting "human wave attacks" and it all just felt so deeply unserious. Like, if Russia really was doing that doesn't that just imply how wildly inept the Ukrainians are if they can't even overcome a tactic that was solved the day the automatic weapon was established?
- Human Wave Attacks!*
  *) The humans are all part of artillery crews saturating you with shells
These mercenary types all think they're The Punisher, an unstoppable force of nature
They're used to being set on civilians and insurgent forces at best
The West hasn't had a war against a peer in a while, so these guys aren't used to fighting guys who can counter their tactics and weapons
- Good riddance. More should go.

Are there still new people going over!? IThere was a rush of people in the beginning who just did not understand what air superiority meant, but my video game-addled brain assumed that any current volunteers would have found their audio logs conveniently scattered on the way there.

They're mostly mercenaries now
The stories of the First Armored Reddit Brigade did stamp down the idea that Call of Duty veterans can make a difference
- The entire world of being a mercenary is so foreign to me I couldn't even imagine how to begin finding a job in the field, but surely there are better merc jobs out there at this moment than going to the meat grinder for a military notorious for not paying their mercenaries

"British Fighters in the Somme are getting killed because they assumed they'd be home in time for Christmas, says English soldier who fought there"

I love that these dipshits would have never considered they would be viewed as more expendable than Ukrainians to the Ukrainian government. They thought their status as westerners would shield them when all it did was mark them as first to die since they have no connections to Ukraine in the first place.

These were the dumbasses that were posting their location in a warzone with complete disregard for opsec after all so no one should be surprised they had zero understanding of what modern war entails