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Yeah, but that was far more asymmetrical, especially from the U.S. side, where we were mostly drone striking non-cooperative entities and funding cooperative entities to undermine the legitimacy of the Syrian government. From the Syrian side it was attritional, and their strategy worked until they ran out of money to maintain the standing army to the degree needed to keep out a fully funded and backed by Turkish-Isreali funded force, and then were completely obliterated by the Israeli Air Force. Which isn’t going to happen to Russia, but could possibly happen to Ukraine, but the effects will be different.

Terran v.s. Terran in StarCraft 2. Basically the closest equivalent you can get to what mass simulated battles, where resources are gained and expended rapidly from a commander standpoint, look like. The second closest equivalent would be Squad, but there is no resource extraction backline aspect to the game, it is still too focused on individual combat encounters deciding outcomes.

You could also argue that “Foxhole” is actually the best milsim equivalent, but those games move too slowly to analogize for non-gamers, you might as well be watching an actual war unfold, plus there is a whole ‘teching’ aspect that doesn’t actually apply irl, nor aircraft or drone warfare, which is the most prominent aspect of the Ukraine-Russian conflict.

The point is that there are plenty of modern war gaming examples that explain why near-peer conflicts will inevitably turn towards an attritional strategy, and that taking land simply to take it is a terrible strategy.

To be fair to them, we haven’t seen an attritional war strategy enacted since probably Vietnam, and never an attritional war strategy by near peer adversaries in the 21st century.

But on the other hand, all late game TvT ends up becoming attritional, with the player who is most able to efficiently use resources usually winning. Map painting rarely wins you the game unless you are being precise and strategic in what is being painted and where. I distinctly remember calling this strategy when Russia retreated over the river in the South saying that while it was a political disaster, it was absolutely the best military strategic move if the point was to grind down a weaker opponent. Make them take and hold the strategically useless, but politically important land. I was told I was ‘coping’.

No, it is.just going to operate under completely privatized control of all sectors of the economy, likely mostly foreign backed and IMF funded, roiling from economic crisis to economic crisis. For libertarians, the state ‘functioning’ simply means that it has the ability to discipline labor and maintain sovereign borders. All other functions can go to hell for all they care. The only actual serious crisis will occur when they cannot pay their boot-boys any longer.

Argentinian capitalists had successfully dismantled their left-wing opposition years ago. The fact that the ideological abomination of peronism was the only thing standing between Milei and complete domination of the government was a sign that there were no actually serious organizations ready to oppose the crackdown.

What Milei does do is completely demonstrate how full of shit libertarians are and how the consequences of his ideology are identical to the consequences of the regimes before him but also with larger restrictions in freedoms for workers.

Always remember, the path is either to socialism or to barbarism. Your society is either on one path or the other, and we know where Argentina is going if the people are not able to mount an offensive. These are the consequences of defeat.

I mean they are a part of it, and their abandonment of politics in general is pretty typical of what is going on. I am talking rn specifically about the channel the soy pill and I haven’t watched the Cody Showdy for awhile, so I can’t confirm, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he was bemoaning it.

Basically anyone who does progressive to hardline leftist politics explainer videos, however the vast majority land to somewhere on the progressive to socdem side of things. I’ve gotten into a habit of cataloguing them and kinda hate-watching them as their overall quality has gotten worse.

Idk, why do bread tubers keep waxing poetic about USAID, despite not pausing for a second when most of the highest recipients of aid are countries that we have either invaded or at least conducted numerous military operations in. Libs are gonna be libs.