• @[email protected]
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    891 year ago

    Seeing all the videos on how russian soldiers are treated by their superiors, was the AFU vehicle just a plausible deniability?

    • verity_kindle
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      1 year ago

      That’s a good point. He could have been fragged or set up for a own goal. It probably wouldn’t be difficult. Tell him it’s safe and send him out after a bender?

      • theodewere
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        261 year ago

        what’s important is the fact that both explanations are perfectly plausible given the current state of the Russian military

        • TAG
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          31 year ago

          You forgot the third, less plausible explanation: General was talking shit about Putin, did not realize that Vladimir Vladimirovich is always listening.

      • @[email protected]M
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        161 year ago

        could be also a translation issue as “mine” and “mortar bomb” are the same word in russian

      • Zoidsberg
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        221 year ago

        1847: Mexican–American War: On two occasions, Lieutenant Colonel Braxton Bragg (later a Confederate general) survived an attempt on his life when an artillery shell exploded under his bed.

        Twice?