There's multiple levels to my hatred for vatniggers. Obviously I hate them just for being wrong most of the time, constantly making false predictions, which get immediately disproven, with the same confidence they say the sun will rise in the morning. But I think what really hits me more than anything else is their complete misunderstanding of scale. Over in the Russia thread, it's the perfect stereotype of hicks who've never ventured outside their one horse town trying to comprehend the scale of modern war. People in that thread are still talking about a single ammo dump that was blown up weeks ago, and how globohomo is covering up how it will make all of eastern Europe suffer radiation sickness. An entire half of a continent, from one accidental ammo dump, not even an actual nuke. I don't know how to express how much that does not work on that scale.
I always try to avoid too much pro-Ukraine propaganda, because it's too easy to forget the scale of war we're dealing with. Yes, Russia has failed on every conceivable level with this war, and it will never recover from their blunders. Russia wants people to still think it's a superpower but it can barely take on a country 1/3 the size, and they are losing money and men as if it's a war of survival instead of conquest. This war has taught the world a lot about how important modern equipment and logistics are, and the difficulties of taking an entrenched opponent without air superiority. But the important thing to remember is that Ukraine is still 1/3 the size of Russia by every metric. They can still lose even with Russia fucking up this bad. People can be in this thread, be pro-Ukraine and laugh at Russia's mistakes, and still think Russia will win. That's not a contradiction. There's nothing wrong with thinking "Ukraine keeps losing territory for months, they're probably gonna keep losing territory. They're getting drip-fed weapons from NATO but nobody seems to actually care about giving them enough to win."
Which means that everyone who is genuinely pro-Russia needs to not only think Russia is winning the war, but also see all the combat footage and conclude that this war has not been a total embarrassment for them. They have to think Russia is still the second strongest military in the world, and the only reason they're constantly losing momentum is because NATO is suiciding itself in a desperate bid to keep them contained, or something. "US spent a hundred billion dollars sending Javelins and Patriots, and yet they can't stop superior Russian tanks and missiles from storming the most strategically important location in Ukraine! Not only will Russia win, but all that aid the US sent will ensure the entire US hegemon collapses!", they cry, having clearly never so much as peeked at the US government's budget. The United States is the lone superpower of the world. Even if Russia was, somehow, the second strongest nation in the world, it wouldn't matter because there aint no silver medal in war.
The US is universally known to be the lone superpower. The US has the largest air force in the world, and also the second largest air force in the world, all during a rare time of peace when compared to "the second strongest" throwing everything it has into this war. In the year since the war started, the US military could have built and supplied Ukraine with 200 Patriot systems, 100,000 HIMARS launchers, and 1,000,000 Javelin rockets and still come in under the previous year's military budget. Obviously, without in any way impacting the reserve systems the US already built. The US is famous for ridiculously overspending on its military, ever since 9/11 people have been questioning whether it's really strictly necessary for the US to spend three times what anyone else spends, every year, on military. In truth, the US is mostly sending weapons that were already built and would sit in storage anyway, so it doesn't even cost a single dollar to provide 100 billion in weapons. Not to mention, if the US actually got involved in a war directly, it has a standing army of trained volunteers that is still larger than Putin's horde of conscripts, all with one NATO country, not even touching on the UK or Germany.
It's funny, you look at the US military expenditure and it's shocking how little the US has even tried since World War II. Sure, the US sent a bunch of guys to Vietnam to die in the jungle, and that's one of the most important events in recent history, but that whole war that lasted multiple decades had a mere fraction of the spending WWII used in 4 years. The US won the Gulf War in 7 months, singlehandedly, with less money than they've currently sent to Ukraine. With all this military spending, most citizens don't even know what wars the US is even in. Even if they were ridiculously corrupt and 90% of the money put into the military was lost in the bureaucracy, the US would still be the undisputed strongest nation in the world. The idea that anyone could claim that the US is actually trying in this war is laughable, but that's exactly what people in the Russia thread are saying. They say Ukraine is just a puppet that actually represents the full might of NATO, and yet that's exactly what happens. Every single page, someone the the Russia thread will unironically claim that this war, this tiny little war in eastern Europe, this is the straw that will cause the US to start a civil war and destroy western civilization as we know it. The US, after seeing 10% of their military budget get wasted, will have no choice but to start a nuclear war of annihilation because they know there is no way to defeat superior Russia.
There's so many specific things I could point out about vatnik cope, but it would feel like I was nitpicking compared to the sheer scale of modern warfare. Like, the important thing to note is that even with the $100b in aid they've got, most of Ukraine's army is Ukrainian stuff. The rest of the military costs more than $100b, because that's just what modern militaries cost to field. If I was living in an alternate universe where Russia sent $100b in aid to a war against the US, I'd sorta shrug and say "neat", because I'd just assume they had more in the tank. But this is the big topic of discussion over there, how much NATO is spending on the war and how they're going to collapse any day now because they are single-handedly funding the entire Ukrainian army. What's especially bizarre is most of them seem to be American, some western European, and yet they're the ones arguing most strongly that this war is crippling the entire western hemisphere and everyone is dying because of the money wasted on the war. Like, seriously, do they not see how completely unaffected any of these countries are? Did their girlfriends all break up with them and now they're sitting in the room with the blinders drawn playing Linkin Park and assuming everyone else is suffering like they did? You can literally just look up combat footage from Afghanistan and compare it to the Ukraine war, and see how much of a difference there is in scale, competence, progress...you don't need news sources to tell you what the scale of war is like, and how effective each country's military is.
" stance. I just mean they have something like 1200 fighters of various vintages, and hundreds more tanks. They cannot commit the totality of their air or ground forces Ukraine because they need to be able to respond to threats from US/China (and now Finland. Lol. Thanks Putin) and keep their top-of-line shit in reserve. If another conflict started, they'd just dip into those reserves.
