About those military ads...

it’s a jaw-dropping display of how coordinated and effective the US military is these days:

  • the US had spotted them a few days before getting ready and were keeping a close eye on them. during this time they had already figured out who they were. presumably they were monitoring their communications as well.
  • on the day, the US saw them coming with just buckets of time, enough to casually call up the Russian liaison and have a nice chat about whether there were Russian troops in the area. they went back and forth several times “I just want to be absolutely clear, you’re saying there’s absolutely no Russian forces in this area?”
  • as this is going on, there’s already US air assets in the area. mainly reaper drones and F-22s. watching. waiting.
  • the US opens by blanketing the entire area in electronic countermeasures. the russian columns can’t even talk with eachother, nevermind call for help. and with the exception of some of the very rear troops, at this point going forward the entire area might as well be on lock-down because nothing is going to get in or out. the russians likely aren’t even aware that the battle has started, nevermind that they’re all dead men.
  • the US opens up with both rockets and artillery, almost immediately destroys every heavy vehicle, and then just walks the whole fucking column (well, it’s at least 2 columns at this point I think). the drones and F22s are just chilling, practically invisible, relaying detailed targeting info and intel and watching out for any hostile air support.
  • the US artillery breaks to play some Madden, and calls in the apaches to strafe the entire fucking area and meet their monthly kibbles and bits quotas.
  • at some point the bomb busses (F15 and B52s) show up to… I don’t even know why, maybe they were bored, but they’re dropping heavy bombs over the area, which the F22s, drones, and some SOF are guiding in like magicians.
  • meanwhile the SOF are still pissed off they had to get out of bed for amateur hour, so they have an AC-130 just loitering and picking off anything that’s still moving.
  • towards the end, the Russian liaison has to call back and awkwardly explain, well, maybe there are Russians but they aren’t real Russians and… look it’s Russian metaphysics ok, could you just stop blowing everything up already so we can collect the dead.

6 hours. some 300 dead (well, assumed to be dead… the remains are completely obliterated by this point). zero US casualties—no one even had to leave the fucking perimeter except for the apache pilots.

just absurd.

though, tbf, it was an incredibly dumb move on the part of the Russians to just waltz up like that.

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