Ummm....sounds like you might be off by a good 6-7 billion people. Oh, and even that GDP figure might even change greatly as European de-industrialization within the decade is almost certain. We might actually see West/Non-Western nations split GDP 50/50 by then at the very least.
Ukrainian War Developments
- Thread starter james smith esq
- Start date
- Status
There are Azov militants in Kiev region?
Seems like the narrative that the Russian troops not taking the war seriously is somewhat true, and leading to many embarrassing mistakes.
That isnt about not taking it seriously.
This is a failure of following basic military standards. Soldiers are never allowed to be fed with civilian food due to what just happened, intentional poisoning.
Russian military as an organisation is rotten to the core if they can't even be bothered to follow the most basic military practices.
I'd take stories like these with a pinch of salt. We have to remember that we are in the middle of a propaganda war. This story serves to raise the morale of their military and, ironically, the chances of Russians committing atrocities towards the occupied people.
perhaps the russian troops were too steeped in the indoctrination about the people of ukraine supposedly yearning to return to the great russian family.
True, what I meant to say is that they're not taking it seriously enough that they disregard those basic military standards, or it could also be chalked up to incompetence/lack of discipline like you said.
I think you overplay this somewhat, It is true that in british and particularly american military traditions, heavy emphasis is placed on a logistic tail that feeds field i army up through a chain of forward depots to a friendly logistic base.
European continental military tradition place heavy emphasis on troops living off the land when in the field. That includes living off of local civilians when possible. In fact, if forage is available, consumption of forage is to be preferred to the consumption of rations so the rations can be saved in case of emergencies.
During WWII there were lots of accounts of victorious german and russian soldiers being poisoned by the local populations, partisans and insurgents. to deter this kind of attack in order to preserve the army’s ability to live off the land, the reprisals carried out against such attacks were always brutal. often dozens to fifty or a hundred civilians are shot for each soldier sickened or died by poisoned food. sometimes bad luck befall civilians simply because the food the enemy soldiers requisition had gone bad naturally before being consumed.
Last edited:
- Status