[busterarm]

And /k/ forgets the lesson that Finland learned twice, the hard way.

Having more bodies to throw at your enemy is a valid, war-winning tactic. Really that's what the meme _should_ be. Russia will beat you with poorly trained soldiers and two generations old tech. Bet.

But I guess that also undermines everything that /k/ stands for...

[jterrys]

Nobody is discounting the efficiency of meatwave tactics. The problem is Russia postured itself as being the highly competent alternative force of the world order outside the sphere of North America and Western Europe. Which they demonstrably are not.

[busterarm]

"Really bad at conducting war" is demonstrably untrue if meatwave tactics are effective.

Technological and tactical superiority can help you win a war but you're making the mistake of thinking that war is something other than what it is. Ultimately it's about how much death and chaos your population can tolerate vs the other guy. Russia habitually proves that their appetite for it is enormous.

Even when they lose it's only a few years that go by before they're waging war again.

[consumer451]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrier_troops#Soviet_Red_Army

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d1AmMt6A9s