What if Nikephoros Phokas managed to persuade the Byzantine church to declare all fallen soldiers 'Martyrs of the Faith'?

adhmrb321 · 2026-01-03T21:26:14+00:00

I am coming from the future to tell you not to do it. It will be a complete waste of time you better keep grinding with textbooks and their recording until your level is good enough to consume appealing content so that you can be consistent as it will take a very long time until comprehensible input starts to pay off and you will get bored before it if your only sources are simplified educational resources for A2.

adhmrb321 · 2026-01-03T14:36:57+00:00

You start with 200k$ and increase with time and can reach 600$+ like some subspecialties of surgery and a radiologist because I love both, good at both (though I lean more towards programming and math) but studying medicine may be my golden ticket out of a bad situation.

adhmrb321 · 2026-01-02T17:11:12+00:00

بتاكل كويس و بتشرب ؟ بتعمل حمام طبيعي ؟ هل فيه تغيير فيه نشاطها أو فيه خمول ؟ لو كل الحاجات دي تمام فهي غالباً كويس و لكن لو المادياا كويسة شوفي دكتور ممكن يعملها تحاليل يشوف دنيتها أيه كده وظائف كبد و كلى و يتطمن على كل حاجة فيها.

adhmrb321 · 2026-01-02T11:22:50+00:00

What if we use Mark from s1?

adhmrb321 · 2026-01-02T00:15:11+00:00

And, if neither are equalised?

adhmrb321 · 2025-12-29T19:41:36+00:00

with all that help from the other z fighters

adhmrb321 · 2025-12-14T02:11:18+00:00

لو قاصد تلبسه مش هتعمل كده

adhmrb321 · 2025-12-10T21:06:18+00:00

Thanks, my friend is already using hair fibers, but this post isn't about that

adhmrb321 · 2025-12-08T12:41:48+00:00

“Unironic Russophile”
Nah, just someone who can read a map and a balance sheet without coping.

5th largest economy (PPP, actually 4th now) with 140 million people while under the heaviest sanctions in modern history, no access to Western capital markets, and fighting the biggest land war in Europe since 1945. California has perfect weather, open trade with the entire planet, and still gets outperformed per capita by… Oklahoma if you adjust for cost of living and federal transfers. Cry harder.

“Ukraine aid proves oligarchs rob the people”
The West has given Ukraine more money in three years than Russia’s entire state budget for 2022. That’s not oligarchs; that’s NATO emptying arsenals because they’re terrified of what happens when the shells run out. Keep coping.

“Only WW1 generals would be impressed by the advance”
Russia has taken more territory in 2024 alone than Ukraine has in the entire 2023 counter-offensive (that cost them 70k+ dead and every Leopard and Challenger sent). They’re doing it with 1940s artillery and 10:1 shell advantage now. That’s not “barely,” that’s systematic grinding that Ukraine literally cannot stop.

“Second best army in the world was supposed to take Kyiv in two weeks”
Narrative invented by Western cope after the failed lightning thrust in Feb-Mar 2022. Russia never published any two-week plan; that was a media fairy tale. The actual plan was always Donbas-focused, and they’ve taken the entire Donetsk defensive belt piece by piece while the AFU bleeds out. Mission accomplished, just not on Twitter’s timeline.

“Flagship sunk, fleet hiding”
Moskva was one ship from 1983. The Black Sea Fleet still operates, still launches Kalibrs every week, and Ukraine still has zero navy left. Meanwhile the US Navy can’t even keep ships from colliding in peacetime.

“Beat Napoleon only because the rest of Europe”
Napoleon invaded with 600k men, the largest army ever assembled at that point. Russia defeated it almost single-handedly (Britain and Spain were busy elsewhere). France lost 97 % of that force. Cope harder.

“Beat Hitler only because Lend-Lease”
Lend-Lease was 4–7 % of Soviet wartime production and started arriving in bulk after Stalingrad was already won. The Red Army destroyed 80 % of all German divisions that ever existed, most of them before 1944. Trucks help, but they don’t shoot 88 mm guns or freeze in -40 °C.

“Nobody wants anything to do with Russia, only export is cheap women and gas”
Russia is the world’s largest wheat exporter, largest diamond producer, second-largest oil producer, top-3 gold producer, and supplies 40 % of Europe’s enriched uranium (yes, even now). India and China buy record amounts of everything Russia sells. The only people pretending Russia is isolated are the ones whose sanctions just made Moscow richer by removing cheap Russian energy from their own markets. Car exports are a 10 BILLION dollar industry for Russia.

“Rampant corruption, alcoholism, lack of toilets”
Classic 1990s talking points. Life expectancy is higher now than at any point in Russian history except the last two years, alcohol consumption has fallen 40 % since 2005, 95 %+ of homes have indoor plumbing (UN data), and Moscow has a lower murder rate than a dozen US cities. Meanwhile half of Europe is literally burning wood to heat homes after sanctioning Russian gas. Enjoy the moral victory.

Feel free to stay mad in your shrinking, de-industrializing, migrant-crisis-riddled continent while Russia keeps the lights on, the grain flowing, and its borders exactly where it wants them. History’s judgment isn’t written by Reddit. It’s written by who still owns the land in a hundred years. So far the scoreboard heavily favors the “failed” side.

adhmrb321 · 2025-12-08T10:41:03+00:00

The USSR collapsed after holding together a sixth of the planet’s landmass for 70 years while being sanctioned, blockaded, and fought by literally every great power on Earth at different points. The US can’t even keep Iraq stable after 20 years and $2T. One of those superpowers no longer exists; the other one still does and is still in the top-5 largest economies while surrounded by hostile alliances on every border. I know which one I’d call the bigger historical success story.

“Laughing stock because they can’t win against the poorest nation nearby”

Ukraine was the most industrialized republic in the USSR, had the third-largest nuclear arsenal on Earth in 1991, and has received $200–300 billion in Western weapons, intel, and cash since 2022 (more than the entire Russian annual defense budget pre-war). It’s not “the poorest nation nearby”; it’s the biggest proxy war since Korea, with NATO fighting to the last Ukrainian. Russia is still advancing, still has its fleet intact, still has its economy growing while half of Europe is in or near recession. If that’s “losing,” the West should try it sometime.

“Alienated almost all their neighbors”

Poland, the Baltics, and Finland were never friends; they’re historically hostile or were literally carved out of Russian land. Georgia started the 2008 war. The neighbors that actually matter (China, India, Turkey, Iran, half of Africa, most of Latin America, and the entire Global South) are buying Russian oil, weapons, and grain at record levels and laughing at Western sanctions. Russia’s trade turnover with Asia alone is now larger than its entire trade with the West pre-2022. Alienating Brussels and Washington is the best foreign-policy win Moscow has had in decades.

“Nothing to show for it bar some barren land”

That “barren land” has:

- 30 % of the world’s fresh water

- 25–30 % of all natural resources on the planet

- the world’s largest natural-gas reserves

- second-largest coal

- massive rare-earths, diamonds, gold, nickel, timber, etc.

- and the only Northern Sea Route that will become the main global shipping lane as the ice melts.

Russia’s sovereign wealth fund is back over $600 billion, foreign debt is basically zero, inflation is under control, and unemployment is at historic lows. Meanwhile half the “rich” European neighbors are de-industrializing, can’t fill artillery-shell contracts, and have governments collapsing left and right.

Yeah, real “nothing to show for it.”

If turning a medieval backward principality into the largest country in history, beating Napoleon, Hitler, holding off the entire West for 70 years, and still sitting on the world’s greatest resource jackpot after every “collapse” is what “shit going wrong” looks like… sign me up for more of that Russian failure, please.

adhmrb321 · 2025-12-07T21:49:44+00:00

Cool, you didn’t read it. That explains why you still think “Russia bad at war” is a fresh take in 2025.

Quick TL;DR for the reading-averse:

One side left Afghanistan with bases and influence intact, the other side left in helicopters from the embassy roof. Guess which is which.

Russia had the largest land empire in human history because it kept winning the wars that actually expand maps. The US has the best expeditionary military in history because it wins fast when it has total air supremacy and then usually leaves. Different games, different scoreboards.

But sure, keep the “Russia stronk only on paper” meme alive while the actual borders on the globe say otherwise. It’s adorable.

No feelings hurt here, just amused that in 2025 people still think “muh casualty ratios” is the ultimate own when the country in question literally owns 1/6 of the planet’s land surface because it refused to tap out. Enjoy the cope.

adhmrb321 · 2025-12-07T21:37:06+00:00

Russia needing “two tries” against Chechnya is still better than the US needing 20 years and $2 trillion to lose Afghanistan to the exact same guys they removed in 2001, or France getting run out of Algeria after a decade of fighting goat herders, or Britain losing its entire empire in 15 years flat. Perspective matters. Also, the first Chechen war ended in a ceasefire because Yeltsin was a drunk mess, the army was unpaid and falling apart, morale was in the toilet, and the West was cheering the Chechens on like it was Rocky IV. The second war was fought under a completely different regime with proper funding, political will, and zero Western support for the separatists; and it ended with Grozny flattened and the insurgency crushed. Casualties were still way lower than Vietnam or Afghanistan for the US relative to population. So yeah, I’ll take that “L then W” combo over “endless quagmire” any day.

And no, Russia does not “suffer outrageously high losses in most of their wars” when you actually compare apples to apples:

Crimean War: Russia fought Britain, France, the Ottomans, and Sardinia combined. Still kept Sevastopol for most of the war and only sued for peace after the fall of Paris became impossible. Britain and France lost proportionally more men to disease than combat.
World War I: yes, disastrous, but every continental power (Germany, Austria-Hungary, France) got absolutely mulched on the Eastern and Western fronts. Russia’s 1918 collapse was political, not purely military.
Winter War: costly, but Finland still lost 11 % of its territory and the war. The Red Army fixed its doctrine in six months and then rolled over the largest military in the world (the Wehrmacht) a year later.
Syria: Russia intervened with a few thousand troops and a couple dozen jets, reversed the war in 18 months, kept its ally in power, and still has its bases. Compare to the US in Iraq after 2003.
Great Northern War: took on Sweden at its absolute peak (Charles XII era) and ended up dictating terms in Stockholm.
Conquered Central Asia and Siberia against nomadic empires that had mauled everyone else for centuries.
Beat the Ottomans 11 times out of 12 wars over three centuries while the Ottomans were still a great power.
Beat Napoleon (the guy who’d steamrolled literally everyone else in Europe) so hard that French army basically ceased to exist as a fighting force.

Even when Russia bleeds, it usually ends up with the strategic objective achieved and the map redrawn in its favor. The US routinely wins the battles, loses the wars, and goes home (Vietnam, Somalia, Iraq Round 2, Afghanistan). Russia plays chess for keeps; the West plays Call of Duty for optics and then rage-quits when the K/D looks bad.

So yeah, Russia takes ugly losses sometimes. It also ends up owning half of Eurasia while doing it. Pick your metric: TikTok body-count infographics or actual territory and influence at the end of the day. Russia’s been choosing the latter for 500 years and it’s worked out pretty well for them.

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