/siberia/ - Off-topic

Chauvenistic ameriKKKan pigs were prjecting the whole time

I don’t like Indians. Simple as

>>704089
and that's racist. simple as

westoids pretend to be outraged over reactionary shit in the third world meanwhile their own country gets a pass, ignoring the fact that the working class in the west are all a fascist death cult

>>704086
I really hope those soldiers with the guns and lame uniforms are just larping because if that was genuinely the best gear they could afford…

>>704155
Naxalites were unfortunately pretty poor, as is most of India. But they still held a lot of power at their peak.

>>704161
They could at least buy drones, headwear, bags, and belts so they at least come as if they’re better prepared for actual combat. It isn’t the Cold War or the early periods of the war on terror. You cannot rely entirely on guerilla tactics and hand made weapons to deal with modern equipment and squad tactics.

>>704155
Guerillas with shitty guns can still cause tons of disruption for a government. Also, they just need to ambush well equipped government forces and steal their shit. You'd shit your pants if one of them held you at gunpoint because a 100+ year old gun is still a gun, after all.

>>704164
Depends on the distance actually. Disarming tactics have evolve to a point where some special police squads and even normal officers (exceptional cases include normal people) can use them against modern faster firing guns.

>>704164
>>704167
Besides it’s not even the guns I would be concerned for, it’s everything else. No bags, belts, vests, masks to protect identities, formally built or even informally built stations and hideouts, formal or informal factories, I can only rely on faith that anyone in that image knows how to use a gun and explicitly tje ones they’re carrying, connections to the public etc

>>704163
If you look at the bigger picture of insurgency, it's all about imposing costs on to the occupying government. Insurgents don't necessarily need to be particularly effective on the battlefield to force concessions out of their opposition. I don't know anything about this group in particular, but I would assume they're not actively engaging in open battles. Because, yeah, they're underequipped.

Also I think bulletproof gear is overrated for insurgents. These guys presumably don't even have a logistics network that could accommodate timely medical care anyway. Wide spread body armor is a practice that's only like 2 or 3 decades old and was utilized by counterinsurgents (people with a lot more resources to spare and the ability to call for medevac relatively uncontested).

>>704167
When I was thinking of ambushing, I was thinking of luring a squad/individuals somewhere and holding them at gunpoint to take their shit. Not really engaging in a melee to snatch it. That seems suicidal

>>704171
Good point. It's also entirely possible that those guns, and their ammo, are poorly taken care of and as dangerous to themselves as any opposing force. But it is really interesting to think about how poorly equipped these guys are in terms of equipment. Like you could buy airsoft tier shit on Aliexpress for cheap. Sure that's not "professional" grade, but it's way better than nothing and can't be that bad when the alternative is 1 piece of Cold War era kit for every 4 guys.

>formally built or even informally built stations and hideouts

This is also really interesting. We don't know for sure if this hasn't already been tried, but presumably they have some kind of tradecraft considering that they've managed to continue to exist for decades.

Thinking more about India, I'm pretty sure units in their reserve military and law enforcement still field Enfields. So I suppose they aren't that disadvantaged.

>>704180
Good reply. Not many thoughts but yeah, that point about not having actual stations is the biggest red flag for me because it directly suggests that these guys have functionally zero meaningful territorial control effectively rendering their influence on society as zero

>>704086
It is just that it is socially acceptable to be racist against South Asians. Hate is repeated in 'memes'. In a few years people will look back at how bad the racism was, without admitting their own part in it.

>>704155
What do you expect? Also the PLGA fighters have the best guns. The militias sometimes have only black powder guns. But Mao said something along the lines of "We have guns and artillery, whilst the enemy has planes and tanks. But our guns are the people's tanks, and our artillery is the people's planes".

>>704171
>>704180
The picture was taken a few years ago, before drones became necessary. They do have significant territorial control, the people love them, and they have actual gun factories making even ak47s. They do have stations and hideouts but what do you expect, they are guerrilas not a standing army, they do not need to occupy any base for long because they can't defeat the army of the bourgeois. This is the nature of the strategic defensive.

>>704180
>Also I think bulletproof gear is overrated for insurgents

Also, assuming they're relying on guerilla tactics in a rural environment, I don't see how wearing armor really helps. It makes sense for counterinsurgents to use it when they're raiding houses and doing policing activities, things that bring them close to the population, but guerillas are picking their engagements decisively and ideally avoiding upfront confrontations (at least against the government). That and it would tire them out during all of the maneuvering they'd be doing. Even Western armies tend to go light on armor when doing recce and the like.

>suggests that these guys have functionally zero meaningful territorial control effectively rendering their influence on society as zero

I could just be misunderstanding what you mean. But its possible they influence society by interfacing with other aspects of civil society, rather than being their own thing. Like just showing up to hangouts and temples or whatever and recruiting. In the Middle East, some terrorist organizations are/involve themselves with aid organizations or other organizations with state-like functions. If by "stations" you mean marked buildings with their flags, I disagree that a lack of presence in that way means they're ineffective. They may not have territorial control, but if they can make it harder for the government to govern, they're still relevant. Even if that just means taking pot shots at security forces, forcing the government to either give up more control of the area than they'd like or to allocate more resources.

>>704155
This, you aren't a real guerilla force if you don't equip every single freedom fighter with a $50k kit of level XIII plates the new mutlicamo chameleon with orange opreya and panoramic shoes