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What do you define as a tankie. (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/tankiejerk

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I know for a lot of people a tankie is just something that they know it when they see it, however I think that it is important to think about the reason that you define something as being tankie vs just a leftist.

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[–] mydude -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If you are a political analyst with war experience, and you think Ukraine, with their 44 million people, can't win over a country with 144 million people, does that make you love Putin?

[–] PugJesus 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not inherently. It could just make the political analyst a moron.

Unless one's view of war is that of some kind of Command and Conquer style total slugfest, raw numbers are only part of the story. War is politics by other means - asymmetric desires and willingness to suffer losses to achieve them are often the deciding factor.

[–] FlyingSquid 4 points 4 days ago

And it's weird that this person doesn't seem to remember that the massive U.S. military and a big coalition of other militaries couldn't defeat the very small Taliban military in 20 years of war.

I guess it's different when it's Mother Russia.