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[–]BISH 0 insightful - 1 fun0 insightful - 0 fun1 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

“We were fighting for about 10 hours in a row. And it wasn’t like just waves, it was uninterrupted. So it was just like they didn’t stop coming.”

Their AK-47 rifles became so hot from constant firing, Andriy says, that they had to keep changing them.

“It was about 20 soldiers on our side. And let’s say 200 from their side,” he says.

This is hilariously stupid. He's imagining swapping overheated barrels on an AK. As if it's a machine gun. They can overheat. But you don't disassemble it in combat.

And a 10 hour firefight of 20 against 200?

The Russians probably forgot to bring hand grenades?

This fella learned about combat on TV.

[–]Site_rly_sux[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Where does it say they disassembled and swapped barrels? You just made that up.

This fella learned about combat on TV.

Okay, so you're feeling a narrative need, to minimise the combat intensity of these UAF soldiers.

Let's explore a bit, that desire which you're experiencing.

So if the UAF soldiers are not really having to fight much...then....why hasn't the ruzzia won yet? Why is Bakhmut still contested, if the combat on the Ukrainian side is happening only on the TV?

I get that your narrative requires minimising the lived experience of ukrainian soldiers....but you ought not do it in a way that clashes with the rest of your narrative

[–]BISH 0 insightful - 1 fun0 insightful - 0 fun1 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

AK-47 rifles became so hot from constant firing, Andriy says, that they had to keep changing them.

[–]Site_rly_sux[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yes, their rifle is hot so they put it down and pick up another AK-47, and then use that until it is too hot.

The whole imaginary scenario of disassembling the barrel like it's a machine gun - that's a fabrication which you invented, and you invented it because it sounds silly and would be easy to disprove.

That's called a strawman argument - you invented a strawman. How does it feel realising you just did a cognitive bias

[–]BISH 0 insightful - 1 fun0 insightful - 0 fun1 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yes, their rifle is hot so they put it down and pick up another AK-47, and then use that until it is too hot.

They're wasting hundreds/thousands of rounds, and overheating rifles on 20 Ukrainian stooges?

That's idiocy. It's not realistic.

That's called a strawman argument - you invented a strawman. How does it feel realising you just did a cognitive bias.

Says the guy who claims Russian troops are drugged during combat.

[–]Site_rly_sux[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Are you drunk?

Seriously - you are repeating the blatant mistake.

First of all. Nowhere in the article does the interviewee talk about wasting 1000s of rounds. That's another invention by you for the purpose of strawmanning.

Second, the "20 vs 200", is in reality, 20 Ukrainian defenders to what the interviewee estimates "let’s say 200 from their side". So when you wrote about wasting ammo on "20 Ukranian stooges" you betrayed your absolute misunderstanding of the interview or context of the scenario being discussed. Which is why I ask whether you are drunk right now.

Third, if you think I personally am claiming that Wagner are drugged, then you need to sober up, because anyone with a room temperature IQ can see that CNN's interviewee from the UAF is the one claiming that. And he gives sensible reasons for believing it, which are drawn from his observations and experiences, which are also described in the article.

Fourth, you forgot to address why you invented that whole bit about assembling barrels. You didn't read that in the article - it came directly from your imagination to the frontal cortex, and from then on, you had actually tricked yourself into believing that it was part of reality. Isn't that worrying? Don't you worry about the chain of custody, from imagination directly to the firmament of reality. That's how schizophrenic people behave and I think it should worry you more than it seems to.