Again, that’s why I’m concerned it’s the latter.
Again, that’s why I’m concerned it’s the latter.
I’m sorry, I can’t tell if you’re cleaning it or fucking it.
Yeah, it is.
But I don’t know what to tell you, the term predates the nazis by quote a bit.
They adopted it, but it was known from the age of dragoons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_troops
The sacred band of thebes were considered shock troops, and I’d suggest that’s closer to what the Russian idiots meant.
But I also wouldn’t be surprised if they were just copying the nazis without knowing.
A storm trooper is a member of storm troops, also called shock troops, which are trained for sudden assaults. They carried out attacks in World War I and in World War II, and they were a politica militia of the Nazi party (see Sturmabteilung or Brownshirts). The English storm troops is a direct translation of the German Sturmtruppen.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/storm-trooper
They were called storm troopers because they were the ones who stormed trenches during an assault.
It wasn’t considered a bad thing then, they were considered the elite.
It’s a commonly used term now, just like Assault Rifle from Sturmgewehr.
It’s become verbed, like googling.
That is literally the motif of this whole war special military asskicking.
Sturmtruppen was the German word for ‘assault troops’, much like sturmgewehr is their word for ‘assault rifle’ which was adopted by everyone else.
It means troops to storm a position, the heaviest troops for assaults.
We’d call them assault forces, or honestly, just marines (amphibious assault corps).
Hitler had a bunch of paramilitary followers (think Trump and his Jan 6 crowd) called the sturmabteilingen (sp?), which translated to storm troopers, because he thought it sounded impressive.
He later betrayed and murdered them, to curry favor with the army, which is so Hitler.
He’s a Midwestern republican, it’s less bad there and they can keep deniability that people are so insane.
A lot of the worst of this spread from the dixiecrats when they joined the GOP, what’s tragic is how Midwesterners keep convincing themselves that this is just normal politics and not the legacy of Jim Crow racism run amok.
I mean, he’s still a politician, but he’s a politician within the bounds of sanity.
Until physics kick in and suddenly I’m nosediving no matter how many switches I press
It’ll always still be a MiG.
Dewine isn’t crazy, he’s mostly a paleorepublican from before the dixiecrat coup.
He’s been fighting this insanity for a while, with mixed results.
I mean, Moscow is big, we don’t have to be stingy.
just because Russians, Moscow.
Leningrad looked at me funny, I swear.
He would have had no choice, not taking ukraine would have required every country to start arming, Europe would have tooled up, Sweden and Finland too, they weren’t thrilled with Russia before this.
Yeah putin might have imagined he’d keep Ukraine subjugated by fear alone, but they were moving to the western sphere ever since maidan, that was unlikely.
Putin was trying to command the tides to withdraw, that’s futile, it’s all over already.
You’re right about why he took Crimea.
He tried to take Ukraine because Xi had finished subjugating Hong Kong and said he’d be moving on Taiwan soon, putin didn’t want to look like the weaker partner, and if both moved at the same time they were positive the west would be paralyzed by fear, Afghanistan was already proof the west was weak.
His miscalculation was 2 fold: 1. Xi didn’t understand how naval power worked, the PLAN needed another decade minimum to credibly threaten Taiwan, 2. Russia’s army was decimated by decades of corruption itself.
We got lucky, if big daddy z took that ride the west would be in a bad place right now.
Russians genuinely believe the only way to prevent being invaded is to invade and dominate all their neighbors as far as possible, for purely defensive reasons you understand.
Russia can never be safe, until the entire planet is subjugated by Russia.
Cultural paranoia as foreign policy.
Those back-alley ‘marriages’ to 13-year-old “virgins” aren’t going to last.