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Re:The Undeniable Street View by medo-bear on Sunday March 26, 2023 @05:35AM (#35312671)
i keep reading reports that russians have run out of ammo and their soldiers are fighting with shovels now [1] so it must be the ukranians

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64855760

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Re:The Undeniable Street View by K5EiS on Sunday March 26, 2023 @05:44AM (#35312717)
> "armed with only 'firearms and shovels'"

You left out the firearms part

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Re:The Undeniable Street View by polotics on Sunday March 26, 2023 @06:34AM (#35312967)
A shovel is the most essential tool of infantry, if you can't dig your trench quickly, you are a dead man much faster...
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Re:The Undeniable Street View by khochesh_kushat on Sunday March 26, 2023 @06:42AM (#35313018)
Is affixing shovels and charging enemy positions very common historically?
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Re:The Undeniable Street View by throwaway742 on Sunday March 26, 2023 @04:53PM (#35319465)
Yes it was quite common.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIGIBJeRfnQ

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Re:The Undeniable Street View by EGreg on Sunday March 26, 2023 @05:58AM (#35312781)
Truth is the first casualty of war.

These stories have been going on since April of last year.

https://www.newsweek.com/russian-army-days-away-running-out-...

Each side is basically creating an echo chamber for their citizens to believe, so they will keep supporting an ongoing war until “the other side” is “100% defeated” so it “can’t attack us again”.

I have seen this rhetoric in every proxy war, including Yemen since 2014 and Syria even before that. Sadly the same thing repeats in every conflict but most people don’t know that.

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Re:The Undeniable Street View by peppermint_gum on Sunday March 26, 2023 @09:02AM (#35313984)
Running out of resources doesn't mean they will suddenly stop shooting. It isn't binary.

It means the intensity of artillery and missile strikes is decreasing. It means they have to import arms from Iran. It means they are now using ancient T-62s and recently started pulling T-55s out of storage.

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