Just realized that the first time the Swarm was on a CoD game was on BO2, which takes place in 2025, lmfao

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    Ukraine is obviously the victim here. The Ukrainian people are amazing and have their own rich history and culture as well that deserves to be preserved and respected and cultivated. They do not deserve any of this.

    It’s weird to suggest anyone would. But we’ve been hearing about how “Now is the time for a Ukrainian counterattack!” since 2022. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian conscripts got shoveled into Russian defense lines and butchered by mines and artillery, while Westerners cheered like they were watching some kind of pro-sporting event.

    FFS, you can find videos all over the internet of Ukrainians and Russians butchering one another and bragging about it. You can find bespoke influencer news networks bragging about how their team is “Owning” the opposition with grisly reprisals. They’re trending all over social media.

    Talking about one does not mean I don’t care about the other.

    It’s just a show for the West. You don’t actually give a shit, because you don’t see (or care) about the cost anyone is paying.

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        20 days ago

        One with zero Ukrainian casualties.

        Zero reported casualties. And then nobody wants to talk about retaliation as a consequence.

        A defeated Ukraine would suffer far worse

        “Things will be worse once the bombs stop falling” is pure war propaganda.

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            Lol

            What is it with the 101st Chairborn and their need to make light of human casualties?

            what unreported casualties do you imagine there could even be?

            Intelligence on the ground, particularly spotters near the target, would be the most obvious potential liabilities.

            But now that Ukraine has bloodied their nose

            They’ve been bloodying one another for years on end. This isn’t the first successfully Ukrainian strike since the war started.

            Seriously, what do you even want here?

            To quite treating this bloodbath as a fucking football game.

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        I am just teasing out exciting (well as exciting as war can be, which is horrific)

        I wish people were more willing to confront the horror and less eager to speculate on the excitement.

        Instead, we just see bloodlust. People online clutching their keyboards in rapt anticipation of the next bombing or shelling or assassination, like this isn’t costing uncounted civilian lives to put points on the board.

        What do you want? More solemnity? Do you want us to not cheer for Ukraine? I mean what the hell is your goal?

        To get people to see this as an ongoing disaster, tragedy, and fundamental political failure, rather than some kind of CoD Twitch Stream epic playthrough.

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      You will never find anybody as morally reprehensible as Marxists who support and defend Russia’s genocide in Ukraine. Go fuck yourself Russian shill

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        Marxists want the war to end and the working people to stop killing one another to the benefit of their bosses.

        Only the imperialists need you to take sides in order to continue the killing.

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          No, fuck off moron. Russia started this war, they’re committing a genocide, and they’re 100% responsible for ALL of it. Trying to “both sides” the most obviously one sided conflict in the world by blaming the victims for defending themselves puts you and your shitty ideology in the same tier as nazis, which sounds about right for Marxism. You support and defend Russia’s imperialist genocide, you’re morally reprehensible.

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            Trying to “both sides” the most obviously one sided conflict

            Same line Americans used in Afghanistan and Iraq. Same line the Israelis are using in Gaza.

            The genocidal impulse runs through the West like a plague. All you people know how to do is shoot and cry.

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              The only difference is that people are actually honest about all of these conflicts. They acknowledge who is a fault and what has actually happened. You lack that honesty, hence why you’re using the whataboutism fallacy here to keep dismissing criticism and distracting from the arguments being made instead of addressing them directly. You know you can’t defend the evils that Russia is committing on their own merits, and so you resort to fallacies. If you were able to then would’ve just owned up to the fact that you’re piece of shit who supports the evils that Russia is committing, but you’re not arguing in good faith.