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Russian troops are dying in Ukraine due to heavy alcohol consumption, poor weapons handling, and hypothermia, UK intel says
Business Insider ^ | Apr 2, 2023 | Alia Shoaib

Posted on 04/02/2023 7:47:07 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican

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1 posted on 04/02/2023 7:47:07 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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I have never thought before, how governments could legitimately (in my eyes) forbid drug and alcohol abuse due to military readiness issues.

That is to say, a population that gets high/drunk is one that can’t be well called up for service.

I have never liked the Libertarian position on drugs but I never thought of this argument until now.


2 posted on 04/02/2023 7:49:33 AM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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I always go to Business Insider looking for the unbiased truth. LOL /sarc


3 posted on 04/02/2023 7:50:16 AM PDT by dforest (All of America has derailed.)
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Intel-Uke-Prop

Same old same old.


4 posted on 04/02/2023 7:50:30 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything)
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Yeh...right....Their supplies are loaded with cases of booze.

Russians dead....20,000

Ukrainians dead.......0

5 posted on 04/02/2023 7:54:30 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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I have never liked the Libertarian position on drugs but I never thought of this argument until now.

Correct. We can't call up as many boys as we did during the World Wars.

6 posted on 04/02/2023 7:54:52 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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It sounds like the Russian Army is as bad off as FJB’s new “Army” in this country. Participation trophy “winners” don’t make good soldiers.


7 posted on 04/02/2023 7:57:31 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (It's time to indict the Dung Beetle Party's token affirmative action fat@$$ shyster lawyer.)
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Sure they do. And the Russians are out of missiles too.


8 posted on 04/02/2023 8:00:01 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (Biden will mess up the Ukraine worse than Afghanistan.)
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To: Sacajaweau

Weren’t the Russians supposed to have taken Kiev like 15 months ago?

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9 posted on 04/02/2023 8:01:15 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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I don’t believe any information about this regional conflict in any form of media.

Why is there so little video coverage? The entire thing could be made up for all I know at this point.


10 posted on 04/02/2023 8:02:12 AM PDT by MTBobcat (The “rank-and-file” are as corrupted as their leadership.)
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UK “intel” said Trump peed on prostitutes. Same crap here.


11 posted on 04/02/2023 8:04:09 AM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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>Why is there so little video coverage?

I’ve heard that there is a great deal of coverage on telegram but I don’t have a telegram account so I can not verify this assertion.


12 posted on 04/02/2023 8:08:09 AM PDT by fretzer
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Reddit has lots of videos.


13 posted on 04/02/2023 8:12:59 AM PDT by donozark (Colonel Tom Parker was a Democrat.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Heavy alcohol consumption and hypothermia...versus another war scenario that causes my death? Bottoms up!


14 posted on 04/02/2023 8:25:38 AM PDT by know.your.why (Be not eager to be offended. The narcissism of small differences leads to THE most boring conformity)
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🤡🤡🤡🤡


15 posted on 04/02/2023 8:29:24 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you filthy animal! )
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The US military has tried prohibition a bunch of times with mixed, generally poor, results. The worst result is when, in their quest for alcohol, the personnel obtain wood alcohol, methanol, which often causes blindness and death.

Methanol poisoning:

https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/poison/methanol-poisoning

To make matters worse, methanol has a large number of military uses, so it is available.


16 posted on 04/02/2023 8:30:55 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All he had was a handgun. Why did you think that was a threat?" --Rittenhouse Prosecutor)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Time for peace.


17 posted on 04/02/2023 8:31:23 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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The Russian army has a history of fighting drunk.


18 posted on 04/02/2023 8:39:55 AM PDT by odawg
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I speak more of having a strong anti drug abuse policy for the whole nation.

A nation of addicts cant defend itself.

I do not speak of prohibition of alcohol. Just drunkenness and addiction.


19 posted on 04/02/2023 8:54:47 AM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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Ukraine should stock up on vodka in Bakhmut (if/when) they pullout and let he russians “find” it. Then they will all get drunk and die or not be able to fight and then Ukraine can easily pick them off.


20 posted on 04/02/2023 9:21:40 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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