Maybe they did shoot the foreman and workers (or send them off to get shot), and those were the guys in charge of making the bullets not fall apart.
Good point, it’s not they have a “Seven on You Side” TV program.
“Comrades, lazy ammunition workers shot to encourage the others.”
Russia is set to become the head of the UN Security Council. Fox in the henhouse? What can they try to do to help Putin?
In better news, a class-action lawsuit is being prepared in the UK against the Wagner Group.
Contrary to popular opinion, fear is a lousy motivator. Or more accurately, the only thing it motivates is CYOA. I’m sure the people actually responsible will always have some hapless patsies to hand over to be shot.
I’ve suspected for months that Bakhmut is a giant booby trap, and they’re trying to get as many Russians into it as possible before triggering it. The “problem” is just that no Russians are able to get in.
As for drone munitions, you could probably mount a small gun on these quadcopters, but the number of kills you can make that way is limited by the amount of ammunition you can carry (probably much less, because the vast majority of shots in war miss). And your rate of fire would be terrible, because of recoil. You probably get a lot more kills per kilogram of payload from grenades than from bullets.
I thought Stalin made out well with it, although I will concede that Churchill was a much better motivator.
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Who said the Soviets were motivated by fear of Stalin? I mean, they were terrified of him, but they also loved and worshipped him. Fear wasn’t what motivated them to win WW2.
Remember that bridge to Crimea that got blown up? Did you know they made a rom-com TV series about it? I know it’s not breaking news but it’s just too surreal not to share.
That’s damn confusing.
Peter the Great declared that Russians needed to be severely ruled and led.
How can one be terrified by someone and yet not fear them?
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I’m certain neocons and chicken hawks will counter this, too, i.e., BRICS and emerging markets will fail for various reasons, and the West will triumph, because there can never be a multipolar world driven by the Global South
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From NATO adviser Florence Gaub:
https ://www.counterpunch.org/2022/01/18/bill-clintons-role-in-the-crisis-over-ukraine/
I guess the sale of Russian weapons ought to do well in the developing world. Their worries are over.
One can’t.
But one can be terrified by/fear someone and still love them.
Go ask the children of abusive parents; or the partners of abusive spouses.
And one can also be afraid of someone and still be proud of them – especially in a society that conflates strength with being able to scare people. (Which description to some extent includes our own societies.)
You misunderstand: they feared Stalin, but they loved him, too.
I’ll readily agree that fear can help keep a dictator in power, at least to a point. But that doesn’t make it a motivator - in fact, one could say that fear does the exact opposite, by demotivating people from rebelling. Fear of a dictator can’t motivate people to actually succeed in difficult tasks, like run a competent government, or drive an efficient economy, or win a war. All it can do is maintain the status quo.
Summary
BRICS stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Only two of those five are “global south”, the other three, all of which are more populous, are “global north”. BRICS is not “the global south” and is not drive by the “global south”. The big powerhouses are Russia, India, and China. I don’t know how this meme started that BRICS was “global south”. Even if a bunch of other southern hemisphere nations join up there’s no way in hell Russia and China would allow them to dominate because those two always have to be on top in anything they’re a part of.
There are a lot of reasons developing nations reject the US and “the West”, reasons that make us uncomfortable to contemplate and indeed in some states in the US there are people seeking to outlaw those discussions. If we were better at confronting ourselves maybe we’d be less hypocritical.
Unfortunately, for many smaller nations it seems to be a choice between being exploited by either the West or Russia/China and a matter of choosing the lesser evil, or the evil that most resembles their own sociopolitical system. If 20 more countries join BRICS and they’re all southern it still won’t be “the global south”, it will be a Russian and Chinese dominated alliance, with a side of India, dominating the global south. And we’ve all seen how Russia and China treat their colonies and client states. India would be strong enough to avoid that fate, most of the other, smaller countries wouldn’t
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A Russian military blogger was killed in a bombing today in a St. Petersburg cafe. The bomb is reported to have been inside a statue given to him as a gift.