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viccis 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>The purpose of the Ukrainian military is to get stuck in a years-long stalemate with Russia.

>These are obviously false.

The purpose of the Ukrainian military is to exhaust the Russian army's materiel and test out our weapons. "Years-long stalemate with Russia? Yes, please." -the US. Seems like an overwhelmingly common Scott Alexander L.

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verzali 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Scott Alexander often seems surprisingly unaware of his priors, especially when speaking about things beyond the American shores.

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eru 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> The purpose of the Ukrainian military is to exhaust the Russian army's materiel and test out our weapons.

Since when does country A decide what the purpose of country B's military is?

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TeMPOraL a day ago | parent | next [-]

In practice, always. It's similar to the claim that during the cold war, US basically controlled USSR economy, and vice versa, and that US won because USSR economy just couldn't keep up.

On smaller scale, this is the (in)famous "fire and motion"[0], which works in business as much as it does in military tactics. Make a move, forcing competitors to respond to it. If you're better at it than them (and lucky), you can choose your moves to make their responses go to your advantage.

[0] - https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/

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viccis 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Since country A pays for country B's military.

	▲	verzali 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		So the EU is deciding?
	▲	eru 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's not even applicable here.

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vasco 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Is the purpose of replying to Wikipedia with random substack drivel to get downvoted? Or is it a byproduct of the system?

	▲	eru 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Well, that's not what the system does. So it can't be its purpose, I guess. In any case, the blog is well regarded in these circles.

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actionfromafar a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I was shocked at how shallow that take is. I expected more.