Well, yesAlargeClaret wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 11:35 amI only wish the media would at least offer even a semblance of realistic reporting on the Russians . It’s 80 yr old drunken conscript farmers fighting with shovels , and welded together bits of WWII detritus ,and because they ran out of Ammo 6 months ago they just walk into the enemy armed with only moonshine vodka and curses.
While much of the above has real truths , the casualties are shocking on both sides .While reducing the Russians to joke caricatures might be fun propaganda ,it’s masking the sheer obliteration they’re still capable of causing .
But without being too graphic, a sharpened shovel is a tool that has been used for close quarter fighting in trenches since, well, since people started building trenches
Certainly used a lot in WWI and WWII, and I would hazard a guess that the Russian mind set on WWII (imagine all the war stuff in this country, but times it by about a millions and completely ignore anything wrong that the Russians did) would mean that most Russian conscripts recognise it as a weapon to be used against the Nazi invaders (of course not true but Russia wants to pretend it)
I don't think anyone is under any illusions about what Russia is capable of, but after a year of quite horrendous losses, the T-80s and T-90s are now being replaced by repurposed T-64s, the Terminators by BMP-1s etc etc
There is a limit to just how far Russia can drop down the technological level with military equipment and still pretend that it can do anything with
All we have to do now is wait for that moment to arrive, and quality of weaponry available is swinging further and further in favour of the Ukrainians