Podcasts, videos, books and articles of the week 125 - We warned you edition
(THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO COME OUT ON SATURDAY, SORRY TECH ISSUES)
So this is going to be a proper post here, well as proper as it can be.
Here's a new video if you missed it!
Here's an old video (we're adding old content to our Fallout youtube channel).
Lynch was a genius
Oddly soothing
Let the Doge Wars start!
The truth about human wave attacks
For all the fake 'Fellas' demanding human wave attacks by Ukraine - this is a video about how 1950s China, the most populous country in the world, with one of the least well armed major military armies in the world, did not use 'human wave' attacks in Korea. The Chinese were very smart, very experienced in fighting against superior firepower (which the Russians absolutely 100% have in Ukraine, except occasionally) and had more men than the Russians ever did in WW2. They did not employ human wave attacks unless the general was in charge was out of ideas and very eager to be retired, brutally. A leading Chinese general - said "You can always take back land, you can't take back dead soldiers". Think about that - China had neverending waves of peasants, the peasants that in the future made China a leading economy. But China preserved those peasants. And in WW2, Russia had run out of soldiers by 1944, that's three years into the war. Steel from the USA replaced flesh. Ukraine has not received steel from the USA to replace flesh.
Ukraine has had a catastrophic demographic situation since the Holodomor. Ukraine has plenty of land. Ukraine doesn't have young (or old) men. That doesn't mean surrender, but it does mean that it cannot afford a single human wave attack. It cannot afford another Bakhmut. And because of Western incompetence, cowardice and complicity, it will be forced into a peace. Join the other side fellas if you think Ukraine's real capital, its human capital, should be spent like a Chinese general wouldn't.
As for the usage of human waves in Ukraine - let's just say the North Koreans are very stupid, living in the cult of tiger warfare and juche spirit. They'll learn quickly. And the Russians have relearnt as much as the Ukrainians have. But they care less about their soldiers.
Hippity hop
Internet war crimes
War, what is it good for!
Our book is still out
Phil has a new book out now!
Also on Amazon.
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