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jhog57 5 months ago
cute mental gymnastics but centralized army couldn’t possibly be dynamic by its nature and by definition it is heavy, it is bulky, it needs time to move, time to react, time to adjust, calling it dynamic is ridiculous, compared to what? other centralized armies? oh yeah, right. there couldn’t possibly be anything with a swifter more dynamic response than YOU YOU are the first line of defense, and if that first line fails, you no longer need the police, you no longer need your army, you no longer need to wait for NATO or some other alliances or friends from across the ocean, because for YOU it is over, YOU are dead saying that civilians couldn’t do shit so let’s not give them a chance, benefits who exactly? go ahead and try to get a hold of a territorial unit if a gun muzzle is hanging from every other window of every residential buildings there. I dare you. every wave, every battalion and your whole army will find their graves there, as they should and the town will keep standing until you level it all down to the ground only way to capture Switzerland or Texas is a complete fuckin genocide. capturers know that and prefer not to, since book definition of a genocide isn’t exactly popular, plus they’ve seen fierce resistance examples from countries with even lower firearms saturation such as Finland during the winter war and they sure don’t want a war they will naturally lose bitter truth is that the war wouldn’t have happened in the first place if ukrainians had the courage to trust their own people but looking at your post I am thinking it might take lots and lots of time for plenty of folks to even begin admitting it

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Dude, you realize that in 2022 right after the invasion started Ukraine freely gave assault rifles and ammo to every man and woman who wanted them. A large part of why the initial invasion attempt failed is because of a quick decentralized defense. But that only goes so far. Ukraine is up against an enemy that is perfectly able to mass huge amounts of force in a single location to break through. Ukraine needs to be able to respond to that. And that's not possible without wider scale coordination. Re: "complete fucking genocide", that's exactly what Russia has done in Ukraine. In Bucha civilians were simply mass murdered by the hundreds. Russia has no qualms responding to resistance by simply flattening cities with artillery and airpower. Hell, just the other day Russia used multiple cruise missiles to flatten an apartment building, killing 30 people. Speaking of, how exactly are "3d printed guns" going to stop cruise missiles? 3d printed drones actually do stop shahed drones. But again, that's not some decentralized effort. A big part of making that work is centralized organization: you can't put AA assets everywhere. You need top down organization to figure out how to move them dynamically to be in the best place to intercept each attack.