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by justsomehnguy 5 days ago
Ah, yes the famous sticks with "AK-74" and "RPG" on them.

It's also amusing how the stupid Soviets took two wars to subdue that tiny, sparsely populated country had that country been armed with nothing but sticks, stones, and Molotov's; while the mighty, eagle screeching top-tech first world economy with a giant student debt took checks notes two decades to accomplish check the notes again replacing Taliban with Taliban in a "country been armed with nothing but sticks, stones, and Molotov's".

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you appear to have misread my comment. I didn't say the Chechens were unarmed.
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> tiny, sparsely populated country had that country been armed with nothing but sticks, stones, and Molotov's?