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>Do you guys feel like racism is one of the main reasons AFU and NATO advisors ve so muchh trouble dealing with the Russian army?
>Like instead of actually coming up with a solid plan they are just counting on Russian army being cowardly and retarded and running away at the first sign of trouble?
oh bigtime. "Stupid, lazy, drunken, unmotivated conscript orcs who cannot innovate" has been the prime assumption driving the war. It took *years* for the West to stop describing every Russian soldier on the front as a conscript.
I actually think it's because the Westablishment doesn't look at their adversaries as human, as having the ability to act out of courage, selflessness, show ingenuity, die for a cause greater than them. While from Korea onwards, every adversary they have faced, including ISIS, it has to be said, has behaved like humans who have all these virtues but just have different causes and perspectives.
Greer's seminal article on the stigmata of Tolkien is essential reading imo
https://www.ecosophia.net/the-three-stigmata-of-j-r-r-tolkien/