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Russia bet 50 vehicles that the drones would miss. The drones did not miss. (euromaidanpress.com)
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Never underestimate the ability of authoritarian idiots to convince themselves the strategy that has failed 100 times will succeed because they came up with the strategy.

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[–] Vergissmeinnicht@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago

Did a higher-up without military training make a demand that they do this mission?

Feels like the most likely answer.

Probably the same phenomenon that gave us Chornobaivka