• southsamurai
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    2157 months ago

    If that’s true, it wasn’t the reddit user, it was the soldier. You don’t fucking give out that kind of info for this reason exactly

    • @[email protected]
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      677 months ago

      Reminds me of a Canadian soldier that was talking about going there to help and seeing Ukrainian soldiers getting out of fox holes to have a smoke and getting shot…

      When war lasts for a long time you start running out of properly trained soldiers…

    • Zagorath
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      167 months ago

      Eh, it can be both. The soldier shouldn’t have posted his location online, but neither should the Redditor have reposted it in public.

      • @Maalus
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        Eh, it can’t be both, soldiers are trained to avoid shit like that. Once it was somewhere online, the info was compromised. No photos, no geolocation, no phones even.

        • rockerface 🇺🇦
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          147 months ago

          Exactly, you can’t unpost something from the internet. Even if it wasn’t reposted to Reddit, I wouldn’t trust Facebook servers

      • @Passerby6497
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        337 months ago

        If you’re in a life or death situation, it’s ABSOLUTELY on you to not expose your location. There’s a reason people in the army are supposed to keep operational security, because once the info is out, you can’t control where it goes.

        Even if you trust everyone you tell, one slip up can fuck you over.

      • @Guest_User
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        307 months ago

        Eh, one is a professional doing a job and the other is a redditor. I put the blame on the professional who put their own life and the others they work with in jeopardy.

  • @grue
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    1937 months ago

    posts on Facebook… In private

    Imma stop you right there

  • @[email protected]
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    1007 months ago

    Some absolute turbo genius Russian propagandist did a livestream by an artillery piece near the front lines, the Ukrainians obviously shelled it.

    It happens a lot, sadly.

  • @[email protected]
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    557 months ago

    Everyone knows you don’t post your military secrets on reddit.

    You post them on the War Thunder forums like a true gentleman.

    • @[email protected]
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      177 months ago

      I would avoid dehumanizing the people you disagree with. It prevents any real understanding of the situation beyond “Russians are evil”.

      • @Pixelguin
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        157 months ago

        It also distances you from the reality of it. Human beings just like you are capable of this level of cruelty, and you’ve got to wrestle with that.