I need to do something about my rage. It's getting the best of me, seeping even into my dreams. Have you ever woken up because you were so absurdly pissed off in your dream? I have. It's not healthy. But I don't know what to do about it, seeing how a lot of it is caused by factors beyond my control - i.e. dumbasses in traffic and the ongoing war
Funnily enough, this topic is covered in classical literature - "Crime and punishment" by Dostoevsky. But everyone focuses on stupid ass religion metaphors and bs about self-sacrifice.
Lotta folks watch movies about cool and hip grifters who outsmart everyone and get away with everything, and start thinking themselves the same. They think they can just get a credit and not return it, "beating the system" like the hip, cool, smart cats they are
Pretty sure they said waaay back when these missiles were first proposed (around spring) that it would "allow AFU to strike Crimea". As in, not just the shores. We're talking terror attacks on all cities in the peninsula - Yalta, Simferopol, Kerch. Plus the already suffering areas - Belgorod, Donetsk. Might even try to strike Moscow or smaller cities - Niznhy Novgorod for example, has plenty of military related industries. And while the anti-missile and anti-air defenses are good, their coverage is not - as evidenced by missiles and shells slipping through and falling in Belgorod, Donetsk, Tver, etc
Setting aside the question of winter gear (as comrades have already highlighted it), and even setting aside the murderous masturbatory fantasy of war-as-videogame (what they describe is essentially CoD or Ghost Recon kind of game, with gigachad protagonist having hilarious over the top advantage over poorly programmed NPCs).
I want to focus a little on the example chosen for comparison - Predator movie. Because it is a very peculiar choice. What do we see in the movie? First we see a team of these stereotypical Hollywood gigachad "operators" tear through a gang of Hollywood "rebels" in an absurdly one-sided tussle. Can't even call it a skirmish. The yanks have better gear, better physique, better everything, exactly as what the idiot in the image imagines yankee troops to be. And then the alien turns it upside down on them, by having better physique, better tech, etc. And it's once again not a battle, nor a fight, the alien is just hiding in the trees like a rat to occasionally pop a yank with that absurd gun of his. While invisible. And when Arnie accidentally circumvents the predator's tech - it screeches in impotent rage and fires blindly into the jungle, because its FPS sim got disturbed. Just as the yanks were firing blindly into the jungle earlier, for the same reason.
So what's the point of this rant? Well, I almost want to see those "SOF teams" try to pull their yankee shit, only to discover what "artillery barrage" means and what "peer equipment" means. But of course, useless removed-s like in the op image won't get the message and will simply continue writing similar masturbatory fanfics.
Right? But libs are still all "Sovereign states do what they want, they're not Russia's backyard, they can join whatever alliances they want!!!". And libs in Russia go even further with "Well they're right to want to fight us! Because putler! Evil sovok! Authoritarianism!!!"
Edit: oh look, they are doing exactly this in this very thread!
Ya know, ten or twelve years ago, I met this gentleman from Russian armed forces. He said something that at the time seemed strange and nonsensical to me: "When we say 'compromise', we mean that both parties roll back a little until the end result is acceptable. It's not perfect, but it works. But when the west says 'compromise', they mean one party retracts all demands, and the other gets everything it wants. That's the cause of our difficulties with the west."
Projection, as always. Ever heard about google ads running pro-ukraine videos? Or perhaps about auto-callers, dialing numbers in Russia with pre-recorded anti-government messages?
Oh sure. Losing Crimea (in this scenario) even more so (there's a fleet base). But I still wouldn't call it a defeat. Defeat implies some very specific things - imposing one state's will on the other and forcing it do what its told
In this particular case I'd say FPS or TPS. You can guess HOI foos by their fart-sniffing "strategic analysis"