1.) Stay out of the steet.
2.) Stay out of street.
3.) For the love of G-d, stay out of the street. The worst place to be in an urban warfare environment is to be outside.
4.) Doors are called “the fatal funnel.” It is human nature to try and enter through a door. Aim all your weapons at the door to maximize the number of kills.
5.) Block the door from the inside with anything you can, furniture, chairs, booby-traps (explosives). The idea is to make the invaders think the door isn’t blocked. That way when they try to enter they remain exposed for the longest amount of time possible.
6.) Stairways are another good killing zone. Block stairways with any obstacles you can to slow down invaders in your Dark Souls game.
7.) if you throw grenades downstairs, have your magazine fully topped off and ready. The invaders in Minecraft will most likely run up the stairs to run past the grenade blast. You’ll need all the ammo you have to gun as many down as possible.
8.) When possible, cut small holes in the floor into the rooms below to fire into. People breaching rooms will look for threats directly in front of them and usually don’t look above or below until last.
9.) Don’t sling your weapon around your body. If things go hand-to-hand it will hinder you.
10.) Have a knife, spade, or club close by and readily available. If you have to fight hand-to-hand it’s much more handy than a rifle.
11.) Never fire from the same window twice.
12.) Never stick the muzzle of your rifle outside of a window. Don’t expose it.
13.) Shoot from deep inside the room out of the window. It will help hide the muzzle flash and reduce the noise making it hard to tell where it came from.
14.) If you wound an enemy, don’t kill him. Let his friends come to help him. Moving a wounding a soldier means it will take 4 men out of the fight to carry him away. That’s four less rifles firing at you.
15.) Shoot the men trying to evacuate the wounded soldier. It will demoralize them and take even more men out of the fight to evacuate him.
16.) Keep as many carbohydrates on you and remember to eat and hydrate. Urban warfare is incredibly intensive.
17.) Keep moving. Never stay in one spot very long.
18.) One very accurately placed shot can hold up a lot of people for a very long time. You don’t have to be a sniper. You just have to convince them there is one in the area.
19.) Utilize the sewers in subways to move whenever possible.
20.) Whenever possible, try to let other friendlies know where you are at to avoid friendly fire. It’s very easy to start shooting at each other in an urban environment.
21.) It may be consuming, but take the tracers out of your ammunition supply and refrain from using them.
22.) have one magazine of all tracer rounds. Use this magazine only when you need to let everyone else (friends) know where an enemy is located at. (Across the street, in a park, which window). After using it run like hell and get away from where you just were.
23.) Ammunition goes fast. Conserve what you have.
24.) 10 men firing from several different buildings can appear to be a small army and stop a lot of people.
25.) Rip down street signs, deface building names, and do anything to strip the identity of where you are at. This will add confusion to an invading force.
26.) Evacuate your wounded in a timely manner possible.
27.) if the enemy suddenly pulls back, GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE AREA. It doesn’t mean you’re winning. It means they are going to call and heavy artillery or an air strike on your position.
28.) if you are going to lose an area, poison common water supplies. Most likely an enemy will try to refill their supplies at the closest source.
29.) Cluster your booby traps in close proximity to create paranoia.
30.) Always keep on the move. Never stay in the same place for long.
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Yes, really an awkward moment. https://t.co/XwpVEufiOZ#UkraineRussiaWar #Kyiv #Kiev pic.twitter.com/jFNmcaoBSu
— 𝕯𝖎𝖊𝖌𝖔 𝕲𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖎🏴☠️🇺🇬 (@DiegoGrandi82) February 26, 2022
colddays posted:In a way this feels like a bit of a graduation for Russia. From semi-periphery to a true imperialist pole in the capitalist order. Maybe not all the way, but it's a turning point from going tit-for-tat with expelling diplomats while NATO marches closer.
imperialism is when a Retard online thinks you are imperialist somehow while you get cut off from the networks of finance capital and trade
88888 posted:let's not call this war imperial. let's call it what it is: Retarded
This.
obama-era but holds up pretty well considering how little changed since minsk II
The Azov Battalion is a neo-Nazi militia that was formally integrated into the Ukrainian National Guard so it could fight the Donbass republics. Here, their troops are greasing their bullets with pig fat for an engagement with a Chechen Muslim detachment. https://t.co/QZiQastWOl
— emmy rākete ⚫⚪🔴 (@cannibality) February 27, 2022
Look at these nazi rats, they must be exterminated totally this time.
Crow posted:imperialism is when a Retard online thinks you are imperialist somehow while you get cut off from the networks of finance capital and trade
Don't be rude to me.
Explain your point instead of trying to Marvel movie 1-liner me for upvotes.
My understanding is that Russia is blossoming into another imperialist pole. It's only natural that they would be cut off from the Western pole's networks as rivalry intensifies. America has divided the world to its liking over the last 3 decades, now Russia must seek to redivide it or collapse as a state. Ukraine is an important economic battleground for Russia as a major trading partner before 2014 and a route to pipe Russian gas to Europe. That's not to downplay the geopolitical/strategic reasons for launching a war in Ukraine (NATO expansion, potential threat to the balance of nuclear forces) or the flat refusal of Ukraine and the Western imperialist bloc to negotiate a peaceful resolution, but these are phenomena of the essential fact that a capitalist Russia must become a competing imperialist power in the future.
The West wants to "contain" Russia precisely because they know that Russia's potential growth leaves it no choice but to compete more and more as it matures. Again, Russia is not by any means a full-fledged empire equal to the American empire. America and Europe would much rather suffocate their potential competition before it can get anywhere close to that, and Russia has no choice but to press forward towards the title.
I'm open to changing my mind on any of the above.
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Guilt by association can’t replace a solid materialist analysis but I can help but notice that this line is overwhelmingly prevalent right now. In the US everyone from DSA to rightwing former Iraq war cheerleaders are currently putting out statements that go: “The US is an empire an has made mistakes in the past like imperialist invasions of other countries. Which is why we know what this is and must condemn it. This is a Russian imperialist invasion and it must not be allowed”
but as always i try to think what this will mean for regular people in ukraine, and war, it turns out, is horrible. i dont really think it is nessessary to be morally yay or nay with everything.
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this is from a book i saw linked in the bad place
Every Angloid has to imagine some 17-year-old kid going Hulk mode on some other Russian teenagers to feel like there is some sort of positive outcome in which there is anything but pointless, miserable violence and murder in a part of the world that has already endured enough fucking misery over the past 60 years. I mean, all told, I get the value of a little propaganda from the Ukrainian side for morale purposes, but when you see genuinely psychotic glee coming from English-speaking people online about how a bunch of weeping Russian teenagers were epically executed by the brave Azov battalion warriors, it's hard to feel anything but a deep, deep sickness and a desire to completely stop engaging with this subject any further.
solidar posted:Seems like a lot of hedging there.
Well I've learned it's necessary to spare myself 3 pages of accusations of being a CIA fanboy or neonazi apologist, being called a right winger, and condescended to by The Lenin Understanders.
My fundamental point is that this is a major event signifying a change in the world system. Not a commentary on whether Russia's actions are justified. The forces of capitalist development will push Russia into conflict regardless of justification, just as they push the western imperialist bloc to try to crush and fracture Russia no matter what.
tears posted:also i should point out that it is pretty fucked up that ukraine has accelerated into the nazi germany in retreat phase of barbarism where armbanded deputies with guns are setting up checkpoints and hunting for "saboteurs" blasting away at EMTs and executing people who speak with an accent.
honestly they've been barbarous nazis throughout the donbas war as well, this is not new behavior.
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colddays posted:Well I've learned it's necessary to spare myself 3 pages of accusations of being a CIA fanboy or neonazi apologist, being called a right winger, and condescended to by The Lenin Understanders.
My fundamental point is that this is a major event signifying a change in the world system. Not a commentary on whether Russia's actions are justified. The forces of capitalist development will push Russia into conflict regardless of justification, just as they push the western imperialist bloc to try to crush and fracture Russia no matter what.
To my mind the main problem is that while the analysis could be technically right, its wrong in actual material terms (the worst kind of wrong because its insidious and annoying). its a little like describing a successful slave rebellion in terms of their taking steps to become slaveowners - the power differential and the General State of Things is the defining context. as soon as you start thinking in terms of "well if they were in their position they would be just as bad/do the same thing" youre idealizing from material circumstances as if the world is just populated with abstract Actors who Do things, which is to say youre losing the whole historical perspective
this is not to do some dumb "neither Washington nor Moscow" bit. but Putin isn't nostalgic for the USSR, he's an Evola reading dude who constantly complains about how the Soviet nationalization policies were a disaster for Russia proper. it is very possible/probable that without the Eternal Science, he just read the situation wrong and made a disastrous mistake
i didn't think a full attack on Kiev was going to happen, i thought the endgame was recognition of Donetsk/Luhansk and moving in troops to prevent the civilians from getting attacked by Azov and other assorted nazis. i thought that this would accomplish their goals: prevent Ukraine from joining NATO (an incredibly reasonable demand), keep NS2 open, minimize sanctions. WELP
now it's gloves off, and the removal from SWIFT, the collapse of the rouble, all that is going to seriously hurt the Russian people
followed by a grudging renormalization of Russian trade over a few years and a silent knowledge that all these embargoes and sanctions did not actually change the world, they just accelerated the development of non-USD international economic systems and immiserated tons of people.
it is true that a bunch of journalists are getting to be white war correspondents and politicians are getting to make very big speeches. so all in all a big success i guess. i am sad for old Ukrainian moms.
bonus number: Trump 2024
drwhat posted:place your bets, I'm going with slow grinding russian victory: occupation/annexation of the eastern half or so of Ukraine, at least, while Zelensky continues to publicly ask for troops or EU membership and gets only applause in return. eventually Ukraine will make some deal after it's clear that no one is coming. Russia has no reason to back down now that all the economic guns have been fired.
Yeah
followed by a grudging renormalization of Russian trade over a few years and a silent knowledge that all these embargoes and sanctions did not actually change the world, they just accelerated the development of non-USD international economic systems and immiserated tons of people.
while I don’t think this really marks a major turning point so much as a noticeable moment (in large part due to racist/lingering anti-soviet/anti trump media hype) in a decades log trend , I agree with the general point colddays was making that this is only the beginning of a period of more inter-capitalist fighting. The other conflicts over the past 5-10 years signaled the same thing: the capitalist system with so few spots left to expand into, pushed by the quickly growing stresses of climate change ends in conflict. While a renormalization with Russia is possible, I see it as equally likely the possibility that the fracture of this war never recovers, that the break in trade relations on makes the entry into the next conflict easier for both sides.
bonus number: Trump 2024
id guess this makes it both less likely that he’d want to run, and less likely that he’d win if he does
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2022/03/02/the-controversy-over-chrystia-freeland-and-the-ukrainian-scarf-explained.html
In a statement provided to the Star, a spokesperson for Freeland called the controversy “a classic KGB disinformation smear … accusing Ukrainians and Ukrainian-Canadians of being far right extremists or fascists or Nazis just because they constantly gush about loving their Nazi collaborator grandfather, insist he never did anything wrong, wear known neonazi insignia in photo ops, and drive to work in a painstakingly restored Tiger II.”
There is a strong leftist current within the diaspora in Canada that was instrumental in establishing some of the earliest support structures for protecting marginalized immigrant communities and preserving their history in this country, with no help and frequent racist opposition from the government. That thankless work was then plundered, ignored or otherwise wasted by those same descendants of nazi collaborators who had pushed them out of their homeland in the first place and, in exchange for their worker suppressing anticommunist zeal, gained favor from the Canadian government to build their own well-funded cultural museums. The government of Canada suddenly cared about such things once they had cooperative revanchist creeps eager to rewrite a history more suited to the West's designs.
i popped into the Toronto rally for a second and then popped pretty quickly out when i saw all the black and red flags. they were huge, central, impossible to miss. i guess Chrystia didn't mind them.
in other news:
Clemens Grafe, central and eastern Europe economist at Goldman Sachs, said the immediate crisis for Russia would dissipate in six to nine months when it had earned enough from oil and gas sales to offset the sanctions placed on the central bank’s foreign exchange reserves.