Hunderte russische Truppen versammelten sich. Dann schlugen vier ATACMS-Raketen ein

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1. At this point I can only feel pity for all the lives lost in this war. These soldiers don’t decide anything and have lived under propaganda their whole life, still they have to be killed to save Ukrainian lives. Its akin to the Wehrmacht soldiers in WW2 who wouldn’t have had to fight if one man just decided different.

2. Any Russian in uniform in Ukraine knows EXACTLY what they’re doing there.

   I’ll save my sympathy for the innocent people in the country that was invaded.

3. At least there is some good news nowadays, like this one.

4. There were pictures a couple months ago of an ATACMS or HIMARS hit on some kind of building with a sheet metal roof, and it was **by far** the best way to show the kind of damage these things inflict. 

   I think people default to thinking “okay, big explosion” or “okay, lots of smaller explosions” when they hear about how these things work. 

   No, it’s *hundreds of thousands* of pieces of shrapnel designed to over-saturate the target area so heavily that there’s no chance of a “miss.” It wasn’t a building with holes in the roof, it was 90% holes with a bit of spider-web roof somehow still standing. Upon seeing it, you immediately become certain that there’s zero chance any person-sized object could have existed in that building without being hit *multiple times.*

   And the target area was much, much larger than just that one building.

5. Keep pounding em boys

6. Moscow manage by Western European countries and America becomes wealthy during post-Putin era

7. What’s up with the dud? I thought only russian, china, and nk have failures like that.

8. “Possibly more than a hundred Russian troops dead after 4 ATACMS rockets hit Kuban, Luhansk region,”

   Can we be done with middle school headlines?

9. Hundreds of ATACMS will make a material difference in the months ahead, not necessarily just attacks on troop concentrations because even thousands of dead and wounded Russians won’t have a huge impact on the balance. The difference however will be felt if/when S-400’s (and other air defense systems), ammo and fuel depots, air bases, command centers, etc. are attacked/destroyed by the hundreds. Finally, some light at the end of the horrible tunnel Ukraine has had to endure these past 8 months or so.

10. Serious question: would throwing 4 ATACMS into a hundred something poorly equipped and trained guys be a good trade, considering that the supply of Weapons is finite whereas the supply of Russian troops is infinite (for all intents and purposes, they can easily lose millions more over years).

    This seems like a show of force. 

11. …and now Russians are gathering again, this time with plastic bags.

12. Them there was great rejoice 

13. Very nice