• Pilferjinx@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    These aren’t cadets. They’re probably extremely loyal and well trained. What they get is real modern warfare experience they will bring back home. Maybe, as a remote possibility, they’ll get nuclear info to improve on their own projects.

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      1 month ago

      No amount of training will make you ready for actual combat. There’s a hell of a lot of difference when actual bullets are whizzing by you than when someone’s yelling at you to pretend they are.

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        1 month ago

        Fair enough. We’ll have to see how it plays out. I have a feeling they’ll be more reliable and motivated than most of their Russian counterparts. Who knows, they might not even see the front line, it’s all just a mystery.