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Your defense here is so pathetic and commieshilled. Communists are uniquely bad. You cannot counter with "no, everyone is equally bad". Oh? If everyone is equally bad then why the fuck is social welfare so fucking high in western democracies while having been utter dogshit in every communist country? The results, the reality, do not match your beliefs at all.
They did, though. There is a huge difference in attitudes towards the value of human life, and you can see it reflected in doctrine. No other countries had "blocking detachments" or anything like Stalin's broad use of "penal battalions". Stuff like forcing men at gunpoint into minefields to clear them only really happened in the Soviet military.
Communism makes not just the leaders like Stalin stop placing value on human life, it trickles down through ideology to the individual officer/commissar level.
When you have the thought in your head "Biden doesn't care about human life at all, he only PRETENDS to because he has to pretend for the sake of the voters" it says a LOT more about you and your internal thought processes than it says about Biden. First, it looks like projection, since "assuming everyone is bad" is almost always caused by the speaker himself being bad and coping by lowering the rest of humanity to his level. Second, it is clearly an attempt by you to fit reality into your preconceived notions by adding layers of nonsense, instead of you developing your opinions by looking at reality first.
Cultural and social norms exist, and are real, and play a role in the development of the personality of people, including people like Joe Biden or Euros or whoever. Under communism, human life is denigrated and people grow up with attitudes similar to Putin which show callous disregard for human life. You seem to share these values, and even though you'd protest that you do not, I get to see inside your mind when you take positions like this.
The truth is that communism destroys culture in a fundamental way, and even though Russia is not ideologically communist anymore, its culture is nonetheless a scarred and mangled remnant of communism. In any Western country, the value of human life is so much higher than the 50k+ dead that Russia has already taken in this war would be a huge scandal to the point of forcing a retreat or revolt against the government. Not so in Russia. Putin doesn't even care about the fact that he's sending the bulk of the Russian military to their deaths. It's a sacrifice he's willing to make.
These things are unthinkable to an American or western Euro or Commonwealth person. They are outside the social norms of acceptability or decency. You talk of a "system". Oh? And what exactly is that system made of? It's made of these norms, which are comprised of the beliefs and feelings of the people.
Even the Chinese communists backed down after taking far smaller losses on Kinmen and abandoned their hopes of invading Taiwan.
No, because the Soviets had a large enough numbers advantage by then that anyone could see the high KD ratios the Germans were getting were still not high enough to turn the tide. The Germans in fact underperformed at Kursk to the point where belief in the competence and fighting abilities of the Soviets significantly increased. Until Kursk, the Soviets had never been able to actually stop a German offensive even when they knew it was coming.
Cause, and I know this will shock you, because the economic system in communist countries is bad and inefficient. Also the system allows the state to extract even more of the production than it does in Western countries. 0% of this is the result of communist leaders being 'bad' and your Joe Biden being good, decent and noble.
Yes, there are differences, and these differences were the result of the communist system. Also because the measures were necessary. Later on, they were no longer necessary, so even communists did not use it - but they would have if they thought these were necessary.
If the Nazis had tried this, the officer corps and generals would probably have revolted. The army in the USSR was more quiescent.
Not just Biden. The whole lot of them. Though I may make an exception for Trump, but only because he was not a professional politician.
Obviously, Biden doesn't care if 1 million, 10 million or 100 million die. If they're his own subjects, he might care because of the disruption in tax revenue it might cause, and because manpower is a resource. Nothing else. Same for the rest of them. Putin, Scholtz, Von der Leyen, Kim Jung Un. They are one.
I'm so sorry for lowering the noble Biden down to my level.
You are right here, but not for the reason you think. Cultural and social norms exist, and they matter, not because they 'shape' Joe Biden, but because they constrain Joe Biden. And that's good! Imagine a world where you are at the mercy of Joe Biden's morals and scruples for bad things (I should say worse) not happening.
I guess describing rulers' indifference to human life means that I am. You caught me.
Dude, 50k dead means about 200k casualties - more than Putin's whole army. Is this your pro-puppet copium or what?
The system means that we can cause trouble for the rulers if they are indifferent to people's lives. Though I wonder seeing how indifferent your fake puppet non-country is to the lives of its people.
And that, like any decision Biden or others make, has 0% to do with any humanitarian consideration for 'human life'. Which is a laughable absurdity.
Politicians are evil. Face it.
That's a myth. Just compare the population numbers of German-controlled areas and the areas still under the control of the USSR by then - it had lost most populated areas and the industrialiazed regions that Kaganovich was not able to move. The USSR barely had an advantage, and that's disregarding the millions taken prisoner and killed by that point.
But they sucked despite their preparation.
Russians are just bad at war. They're brave, but their leadership and training is often abysmal. (Fortunately, Ukrainians are also Russians.)
I think you mean "slavs" and not Russians specifically, but again, this is because of communism. Name 1 communist country that actually fought well in a war without relying on hordes and meat grinder tactics? Even the vaunted North Vietnamese had like a 1:20 to 1:40 KD ratio against the US. Communism is anathema to things like elite forces, aces, and military genius. If Rommel was born in Russia, Stalin would have purged him.
I honestly don't believe Russians are inferior the way Sub-Saharan Africans are inferior or the French are inferior [kek], I think communism did them in.
Umm, Soviet areas recently and temporarily occupied by the Germans are not actually productive or useful for the German side. This isn't like a video game or the HoI series.
And no, ACTUAL DEPLOYED STRENGTH and INDUSTRIAL CAPACITY were HUGELY on the Soviet side. I have read detailed sources on this, but here is a quick and dirty version I can pull up in seconds on wikipedia:
The Soviets outnumbered the Germans [2:1 in 42 and 43, increasing to 3:1 after.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)#Forces) Locally on fronts it was often worse. In industrial production the disparity was far worse. In 1943 Germany made 2,983 pz4 while the USSR made 15,700 t34s.
I don't think Rand Paul, or Ron DeSantis, or many other politicians are evil. I think most Democrats are only stupid, only a relatively small number of hard core activists are what you could call evil.
200k casualties is not outside of the reasonable range. A lot of wounded can go back into deployment later. Russia has been scraping the barrel for replacements since March/April just to try to replace losses, and has not been able to keep up. This is why Putin had to order a "partial mobilization" of hundreds of thousands of people, just to throw bodies into trenches to slow down the Ukrainian offensives.
By all accounts the Russian units on most parts of the line are still understrength. The area near Kharkiv was admitted to be severely understrength at the time of the Ukrainian offensive in September, and even pro-Russian sources cite this as the reason for the loss of that region.