AMERICAN VS. CHINESE VS. RUSSIAN MILITARY ADS

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[@TheIvasyl]

Russian ad literally says "You need an enemy, because with no enemy there's no struggle, and without struggle there's no victory."

[@asherroodcreel640]

Is my enemy descartes inability to write what could be said in one sentence, in less than five?

[@realworld9607]

Based

[@matiasyannuzzi9655]

Between that and the two-headed eagle, it feels like GW steals most of their setting for 40k from Russia than from other works of sci-fi.

[@atransarcticfox]

@@matiasyannuzzi9655 trueeeee

[@johngr1747]

Hard times blah blah blah lol

[@OnlyRoke]

"As graduation approached.. I realized that I wanted to taste the blood of the innocent."

[@amo1704]

Read that as soon as the part came up 😂

[@NinjaShark2002]

Tbh the Russian ad just makes me think of Axe body spray

[@egesanl1]

Did you by chance went to conscription. Guys used to punch a hole on the cans and roll them in the baraks. (From Turkey dont know if it is universal) Most off army smells like mashine oil and AXE body spray

[@Delicious_Oreoz]

Its funny because the Russian and American Ad basically conveys the same message of nationalism and serving your country. Just one is more aesthetically woke while the other is more traditional conservative. But at the end of the day they both serve the same purpose

[@ninjacats1647]

Its funny even more so when you see the performance of the Russian military and realize that all that so called muscular training is nothing but an emperor with no clothes. That Russian ad is a personification of the emperor with no clothes meme. Yeah the ad looks tough, but its all a façade.

[@Glibbers]

> they both serve the same purpose Do they, though?

[@xkozyTV]

their both nationalistic but thats by default because morale enough to get into the military to begin with is necessary part of recruitment, however is clear theres a decent distinction in though yes “aesthetic” but how we percieve our forces broadly as being a career and not as much , proving yourself as a man which cuts down recruitment opportunity, but also diversity is extremely extremely op when it comes to developing technology cause your effectively thinking more outside the box then anyone else cause you welcome people from other boxes to joing your box instead of drawing from select boxes and screaming at them to get creative, different cultures brings innovation, thats a given, i mean hell, its why we have succeeded so many conflicts throughout history, turns out diversity brings a lot to the table because two heads are better then one, especially two different heads

[@katakesh8566]

Eh, they get more troops. But I think the quality of troop and type of individual you want in your rank is important. And I think that's what they're trying to do Getting more people that reflect the nation. And I'd rather have left leaning people there even if its performative than outright Nazis But that's me

[@realworld9607]

One having woke ideology in it does affect the purpose

[@iamaloafofbread8926]

2:33 The funny thing is, if war breaks out against China or Russia, they will get clapped by the girl with 2 moms.

[@TURBOMIKEIFY]

So, we'll turn China's men more feminine like we did Japan when we nuked em? 🤔🤣

[@sneedmando186]

Why am I imagining a dom/sub situation…

[@realworld9607]

Cope

[@piccoloatburgerking]

@@realworld9607 Good luck with your cope brother.

[@matiasyannuzzi9655]

Imagine being the chaddest Russian to ever stride this Earth, the bane of non-straight and non-male people, the traddest orthodox christian who subsists only on incense and vodka, only to get turned to mush by the Patriot missile operated by Corporal Becky with her 2 moms. Absolutely wonderful.

[@johngr1747]

"When millitary ad good, millitary good." - Right-wingers

[@falconeshield]

Even better if they never joined the military

[@Pazuzu4All]

Aesthetics are everything to fascists.

[@Svnipni]

man I LK loved the Dutch military commercial. They were savage. Some bloke at family breakfast grabs a banana and starts COD LARP'ing pretending to be rambo. Cut to him getting back to eating breakfast and a tickbox appears in the topleft of the screen to scratch him as "unsuitable".

[@zenbear9952]

haha ok thats pretty good

[@dirtyrigs8591]

I rly wanna see this lmfao what's it called

[@Svnipni]

@@dirtyrigs8591 it was a big campaign and there's several of them. But if you look for "geschikt ongeschikt reclame" you'll find most of them

[@appa609]

The dutch don't want enthusiastic applicants?

[@Svnipni]

@@appa609 enthusiastic? Sure. Trigger happy and aggressive? Absolutely not.

[@Ghee_Buttersnaps]

Ah yes, the three genders of military ads…

[@than217]

Xi, ZZ'er, and "Them".

[@leeam7050]

Men women and chinese

[@hippycrit5125]

Also the new third, fourth, and fifth genders that just dropped

[@erikvan9582]

Chinese gender,American Gender and Russian gender

[@v0id_d3m0n]

@@leeam7050 💀

[@theorangeninja6486]

when Joe Brandon was asked how many genders there were and he said "at least three", this is what he was talking about

[@JustAnotherNamelessGuy]

It says that in the Bible.

[@Empyre18]

3:18 “It is funny that even though this one has a literal gay couple, the Russian one is way gayer.” Took the words right out of my mouth.

[@justinlacek1481]

Anyone making fun of the US ad and claiming the military is falling behind has never served a single day of active duty, and doesn't understand how our military works. E.g., the USMC could deploy a combat-ready fighting force larger than the Ukraine military practically anywhere in the world within 48 hours, and that force will be made up of troops that have spent virtually all of their time in the military training for just that situation. That deployment will have been supported ahead of time by a variety of elite special forces and army rangers - again, troops that years of experience and training, not counting an air force that could field more stealth aircraft than most countries have planes in general. People really have no sense of the level that the US military operates at compared to others. The great thing about our military, and the point of the ad, is that you dont have to be a combatant. You dont have to be a grunt, you dont have to be 03. MOSs are there for a reason. Not everybody has to be on the frontline or even in combat support roles, and thats a good thing. We don't spam ads with guys running into a firefight and shit because we don't need to, and most people aren't really looking for that tbh. It's just smart.

[@hughquigley5337]

What is an MOS? Also yeah it is kinda shocking how little Americans know about our own military. I try to explain it to my friends and family (when situation calls for it) and it feels like you are hyperbolizing but in reality you’re probably still underestimating it’s terrifying might.

[@danieltobin4498]

Exactly, these ads aren’t for the guys who wanna join the infantry but the for the guys and gals who have medical or technical knowledge. Unlike Russia, the United States understands the importance of logistics.

[@embrikchloraker8186]

@@hughquigley5337 Military occupational specialty. Armies march on their stomachs and logistics win wars. Tons of people in the military will spend their time filling out spreadsheets or driving trucks or cooking food. Maintaining a fighting force is immensely complicated and it's not just front line infantry.

[@truckerdave8465]

@@hughquigley5337 MOS is military speak for ‘job’. It stands for Military Occupational Specialty. It’s usually 2 numbers and a letter (as far as I’m aware). Like Army infantry is 11B (but you say 11-Bravo).

[@verager2493]

Ah, the ads are to get more degrees and certs into service. That makes sense, you get most rifles from low income areas, and they don't need the commercials as much

[@TheSpeep]

10:04 Hey be fair to the Russian ad, Vaush, it wouldnt be right for them to show their equipment like that. Because as weve clearly seen over the past months, most of it barely works.

[@marcusaureliusantoninus2597]

What a grand and intoxicating innocence

[@kylegonewild]

"Need strong man, very muscle, to go die for glorious Mother Russia using WW1 equipment." -Russia "Goosestep in harmony brethren for the betterment of society!" -China "We can find a use for literally anyone capable of passing basic fitness because we're a real military." -US

[@hughmungus2760]

keep in mind china's military sees alot of action as disaster relief as well. Every time theres a hurricane, flood or earthquake they are deployed.

[@verager2493]

Only America remembers the power of the sacred band of Thebes.

[@DarylStreete]

Based ancient history reference

[@SuperGorak]

now I want to see a military ad for a hypothetical, monstrously large private army owned by Amazon. You'd think their ads would have this shit corporate animation style and some ukulele music in the background. They'd probably do the gay girl boss ad way better

[@sneedmando186]

“Gemma and her two moms” still a better plot line than China, Russia, and Game of Thrones

[@Dave102693]

Forreals

[@SafavidAfsharid3197]

Sadly war is not decided by individuality or Gemma and her two moms but by training and equipment.

[@FelisImpurrator]

@@SafavidAfsharid3197 That's kind of the point too though. The US literally has the best training and equipment on the planet. They have more military spending than any other sector AND better training.

[@zenbear9952]

@@SafavidAfsharid3197 War is won through logistics. EVERYTHING is secondary to logistics Edit: Equipment and training are under logistics but also it encompasses a lot more than just that. Like how that training and stuff is utilized might be even more important, The US had better training and equipment in Nam but it didn't help that they were constantly sent into quagmire after quagmire with no knowledge of what was really going on there until they landed (and even than a lot of em had no idea what their objective even was). Just realized it looked like I was kinda refuting you when I meant to add to it lol

[@dereinzigwahreRahl]

@@SafavidAfsharid3197 The ability of NCOs to make individual decisions that a situation requires, instead of just following a command no matter what, is a pretty important thing in the efficiency of a military. It's also important to recruit as much capable and willing people al possible. Why it makes sense to try to get to everyone, even woke liberals. At the end of the day, Gemma just needs to press a button to annhilate both the chinese and russians we saw in the ads before.

[@Dovoline3]

BTW: The 68-pounder cannons on British 1st rate ships are what are called "Carronades". You'd usually only have a couple of them on a ship, and they were generally very short ranged weapons, but of course they fired a very large round. Their use case was to sail astern of the enemy ship, and fire grape shot from them - the idea being that such a large quantity of shot travelling so fast would be able to penetrate the armor of the enemy vessel and travel almost the entire length of the ship, killing or maiming anyone it hit - and the spread on these things was such that you could cover almost the entire breadth of the ship as well, and with how tightly packed the midshipmen were, you were going to kill a LOT of people that way. The idea was to effectively depopulate the ship so there would no longer be enough living men to crew the ship, or at least litter the gun decks with so many corpses you couldn't operate the guns - not to mention that if you wanted to board the ship, there are now less people with swords and guns to deal with. There was also a use case involving de-masting enemy ships, but this was less common.

[@hughquigley5337]

Thank you for this information but also Jesus fuck this is horrific.

[@OctyabrAprelya]

@@hughquigley5337 As my mom says, it's absolutely incredible the amount of creativity we humans have to devise ways to kill other humans in the most horrific ways.

[@delos2279]

That one on the Victoria that is shown in the picture was a real cannon, not a carronade. Though 68 pounder carronades were also a thing. Carronades could also shoot solid cannon balls and reloaded faster than cannons with the shorter barrel which translated to more firepower for the weight but much shorter range.

[@zotaninoron3548]

Ship to ship shotguns. Eh?

[@Her_Viscera]

What else you autistic about, lil mama

[@ultimapanzer]

These ads can be viewed through the classic Sun Tzu advice: Appear weak when you are strong, appear strong when you are weak.

[@LPVince94]

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” This one also applies, since the Russian and Chinese propaganda has the explicit aim of deluding it's people into thinking that they're stronger than they realy are.

[@kyzinga266]

Ayman al-Zawahiri been real silent since Emma with two moms joined the army

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

Ah yes. The Flying SlapChop.

[@SirKemzyGodle]

These military ads are perfect for my gay homies, thank you governments

[@aaroncabatingan5238]

One of the few good things to ever come out of Russia. Homoerotic ads

[@Tg-kh8po]

A good context would be that our 6th generation fighter is in prototype phase. Russia and China don’t have a 5th generation fighter in mass production

[@hughquigley5337]

That’s pretty insane. It is also kinda funny because whenever the US Armed Forces sends out requirements for a new gun/plane/flashlight/whatever, their expectations basically sound like magic… and then they somehow get most or all of what they wanted, eventually. It’s pretty crazy honestly. I mean, don’t look into the amount of money they pump into some projects because it will make your head spin, but when they get a finished product it is pretty incredible.

[@zenbear9952]

@@hughquigley5337 The expense is worth it though. A lot of dummies think all that equipment is a waste but what is a waste is a million dollar plane that easilly gets shot out of the sky from a SAM site. US airforce is spending a ridiculous amount of money to make sure the planes won't be shot down so in the long run it's actually more cost effective because you don't need to build replacements and the pilots life is worth a lot

[@aceshigh1984]

@@hughquigley5337 im fully convinced the US military has weapons or equipment that might as well be magic. Putin can claim that Ruzzia has the most modern equipment of them all, but i bet the US is secretly working on railguns or sound based weapons or some shit

[@chickenheart3612]

@@hughquigley5337 engineering isn't just a matter of throwing money at a problem. In order to meet most of these requirements, or in any field, some real ingenuity and outright human skill is required... So, Labour! That's the required step to turn the physically impossible into the technically possible. Only then, you start throwing money at it. And who has more money than the US Military...

[@realworld9607]

China litteraly has one. Cope

[@lisanadazdy7832]

Russia: "We'll turn you into a hard man making hard choices with a hard... gun in your hands. Hard."

[@christopherneil8265]

There was an interview I saw a while ago with an ex chief US military officer. The topic of the interview was “If it was the US vs the world, who would win?” And his answer was basically, the best the world could do was invade, but never conquer the US. It mostly revolves around the fact that the US has the majority of all amphibious landing equipment.

[@beatleplayer1011]

“Wait I don’t want Vietnam to win Luna Oi would get really smug about it” - online discourse 2022 LMAOOO love it

[@doratheace]

Vietnam has actually beat China in a war btw, before the America Vietnam one.

[@beatleplayer1011]

@@doratheace yeah this is true, Vietnamese farmers really been stylin on empires lol (being half facetious)

[@dereinzigwahreRahl]

@@doratheace Half of Vietnam beat the US and the other half of Vietnam in a war. I don't think there is any doubt that they can beat the west-chinese.

[@alpaczka6078]

I mean if we imagining war, we can imagine one doesn't have smug Luna. I don't think Sake Tanuki got "China starts dead-on-arrival war"

[@KnightofAntiquity]

@@dereinzigwahreRahl The Vietnamese did not defeat the U.S. per say. The U.S. did not have concrete military goal in Vietnam which meant they had nothing too win.

[@drksideofthewal]

The fact that the US military is competent enough to actually appeal to wider demographics by signaling progressivism and using animation is *way fucking scarier* on an existential level.

[@tannerbanner1660]

Which is why although cringe makes sense for the us (a population of over 330,000,000 million people) to do

[@DodgeDart]

How?

[@drksideofthewal]

@@DodgeDart Imagine Cthulhu comes to your house, but he’s talking like a normal person, and he’s wearing a face he ripped off someone else.

[@DodgeDart]

@@drksideofthewal I get that, but at the same time I want it to be a norm for LGBTQ+ to be “invited” to be a part of society/society adapts to include them. Maybe not directly the military, but it’s nice that gays have the option to join America’s most funded and respected organization. Like it or not, the military has always been a pathway for some form of “respect” to minority groups. Take Vietnam War, with the black and Hispanic soldiers. Were they treated well? God No. But back home (if they lived through the war, big if), as civilians they got access to benefits that they would have normally been denied. And local bigots would lay off the bigotry to a minority in a uniform/had served.

[@DodgeDart]

I also think the current reality of them pandering to diversity/inclusion is better then if they ban/other minority groups like how trans veterans were removed from service during the Trump administration.

[@erikvan9582]

Yep,recruitment ads,the greatest indicator of millitary power,as evidenced by their great sucess in crushing the Ukranian millitary

[@matiasyannuzzi9655]

Turns out broad shoulders, huge pecks and an 8-pack are good for jack shit when a HIMARS finds you.

[@Molecular-Brainwaves-Translate]

"Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend." - Moslih Eddin Saadi

[@salim5394]

What does your name mean

[@Molecular-Brainwaves-Translate]

@@salim5394 The first word is a portmanteau of "Latinx" and "nexus". The second word is a magic word and I won't tell what it means. "Simulacrum" means "an image or representation of someone or something".

[@wwewify]

@@Molecular-Brainwaves-Translate :0

[@Molecular-Brainwaves-Translate]

@@wwewify Ishnu dal dieb

[@RedSpade37]

@@Molecular-Brainwaves-Translate Well, the quote you posted may apply here as well. Would you answer more questions? I'm mostly curious about the hyphen.

[@jloiben12]

14:20 It will forever be funny that America has the two largest air forces. What is even better is that we have planes that have literally never even gotten a missile lock, let alone come close to being touched. The F-35 is basically a flying supercomputer. We don’t just have a metric fuckton of planes, we have the best planes too.

[@appa609]

The USAAF has 5309 aircraft The VKS had 3863 aircraft pre war. The PLAAF has 3510 aircraft The USN has 2623 aircraft The IAF has 1850 aircraft The PLANAF has 710 aircraft

[@sunnijo]

Why the fuck would a college graduate with talent in music and dance sign up to be a launcher dog? That recruiter did her so dirty.

[@wargriffin5]

She joined and put Open/General for her career choice. 😉

[@CrazyYarick]

College grads can go to officer school. There is a good reason to join the military even if you have a degree.

[@sunnijo]

@@CrazyYarick they can, but she said she was a CPL at the end of the ad. 😆

[@CrazyYarick]

@@sunnijo oh. Nm. That's weird.

[@baronblackdragon9078]

Greek life broke her 😭

[@Isaac-vq9gw]

Why is the American ad literally giving me The Sims 4: Journey to Batuu trailer vibes?

[@Dovoline3]

If you wanted to make an honest comparison, the American military ad is just the opening carrier deck scene from Top Gun. Pick either one honestly. Edit: Also, you don't need to wait for China to get involved in a modern war to see what would happen, they went into Vietnam almost as soon as the US left with a much larger force including armored units, nearly got their entire force encircled, and had to run back abandoning their equipment like the Russians did in Kharkiv. Except in this case, they never actually fought the Vietnamese army - the Vietnamese main force was in Cambodia at the time, occupying it, and were on their way back when the Chinese decided to retreat. The Chinese and all of their tanks got turned back by MILITIAMEN.

[@hughquigley5337]

Oh my god that is hilarious and so unbelievably humiliating.

[@danieltobin4498]

To be fair, said militiamen were probably experienced Guerrilla Fighters…but that’s still an epic fail on China’s part

[@sneedmando186]

When the trees speak 5th grade level Vietnamese 🌳

[@emilchan5379]

To be fair though, 1979 was a very long time ago.

[@ignemuton5500]

@@danieltobin4498 interestingly, the chinese army should've been that too at that point, the civil war ended only like 20 years prior and china had plenty of skirmishes between then

[@RedSpade37]

(Sigh...) Standing there, she realized...

[@lljkgktudjlrsmygilug]

"Just like me, trying to make history" doesn't apply considering how pitiful the rest of the world is to America in terms of defensibility.

[@RedSpade37]

@@lljkgktudjlrsmygilug Oh, sorry, I still haven't played the game it's from, I just hear it referenced a lot, and the ad reminded me. At any rate, when is this simulation going to be over? I'm starting to get existential... Again.

[@datwee7576]

I love how in the American ad it’s implied that the girls moms were dating for at the very least 17 years

[@falconeshield]

Harold they're lesbians

[@goodpol5022]

Food Theory actually made a video on the Pepsi Navy thing. Chat was right, the USSR collapsed before the deal could actually be put into fruition.

[@jonc3519]

The USA one is like an Overwatch short.

[@mememachine6022]

Dark slav warrior sounds like a tumblr persona

[@jerryhampton5755]

If intense shouldering stares won wars we’d be in real trouble.

[@asmuel]

Everyones masc till the team of teen girls operating himars arrives.

[@filipmaly6603]

Anime was wrong about Mechs but otherwise rather correct.

[@aaroncabatingan5238]

Your comment makes me terrified that the US might accidentally create Girls und Panzer in real life.

[@titaniawallace4223]

alright I'm fully convinced Vaush pronounces everything wrong on purpose now, there's no way in hell anyone on the entire planet has ever said "Gerald Ford" like the fucking guy from the Witcher

[@shocknawe]

YES. He looked up the aircraft carriers. I just hope he looks up that 2nd place worldwide has 2. Thats the difference. Research how much these cost to maintain daily.

[@silaskuemmerle2505]

Japan has 4 in practice... They just call them helicopter destroyers so as to not violate their constitution.

[@shocknawe]

@@silaskuemmerle2505 I'm talking about aircraft carriers, not helicopter carriers. And, yes, Japan has 4 helicopter carriers. I have no knowledge of the naming thing you reffered to.

[@shocknawe]

@@silaskuemmerle2505 look up "aircraft carriers by country 2022"

[@gremlin9692]

cringe vs cringe vs cringe

[@themaxterz0169]

Tbh one is more tolerable than the other

[@XMysticHerox]

Russian ad < chinese ad < US ad though. All still quite cringe but not on the same level.

[@SirKemzyGodle]

The Russian one is by far the goofiest, especially now more than ever

[@aaroncabatingan5238]

@@SirKemzyGodle Its the best ad for gay people.

[@scholaepalatinae4988]

I like the US ad the most though. The Chinese one at least shows real military hardwares in action. And then the Russian one... it's like a poorly made video game trailer.

[@f1nger605]

It's generally just a bad idea to underestimate any force in a military conflict. Yes, all the people who assumed the Russian military machine would just steamroll Ukraine turned out to be wrong, but that's better than assuming they would fail miserably, getting everyone smug and complicit, and then be proven wrong. Even corrupt militaries can meat grind their way to victory and we shouldn't dismiss them out of hand.

[@brandontadday6288]

The Russian ad gave me big nutri-grain vibes. If you’re Aussie, you’ll know.

[@Tg-kh8po]

We HAD to have made that ad as a psy-op 😂😂

[@davitdavid7165]

No. Even the US military understands that in the 21st century, if you are not pandering to progressive politics, you are doing it wrong. That's what it is.

[@hughquigley5337]

Which ad? The American one? Oh for sure. They’re looking to recruit liberals and city dwellers generally speaking.

[@jacobs2099]

Yes it's gov propaganda of course it's a psyop

[@Sneaker3719]

Aren’t all ads psy-ops, in a way?

[@Tg-kh8po]

@@Sneaker3719 yes

[@optimisticpasta4246]

I can’t believe Vaush missed the pointing Soyjack on the right at 5:24

[@Leo40214]

It turns out spending near a trillion bucks a year on military means its kinda strong. weird

[@Notllamalord]

The best russian army ad is the HOI4 no step back trailer

[@Gooberpatrol66]

Wow it's almost like Marx was right when he said the revolution had to start in the imperial core...

[@travispaskiewicz2663]

It's no secret that the US military used ALOT of paid actors and body builders in recruitment ads. Russia is still advertising like it's the 90's. I dig the homo-erotic vibe of just a muscular sweaty dude. An 18 year old me was astonished that when I joined the Marines, all the infantry were... scrawny. Like fit, but obviously scrawny. Turns out, what makes an infantryman successful isn't being a human tank, but being able to haul ass and get into advantageous positions quickly.

[@hughmungus2760]

the 90s was peak america. Everything else felt like downhill from there.

[@SpiderCat420]

"dude he's right there" 💀

[@jloiben12]

10:00 Vaush is right. You can say what you want about how much we spend on our military but at least we get something out of it. There is a reason why we have won every war, except for one, since WWI. Hell, the last 3 wars we just obliterated the other side. Our last three wars, if you were to add up all the time sequentially, comes out to less than one year. We just suck at occupations. Well, we just choose to not follow our own playbook

[@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan]

The American one looks like the Starship Troopers one. With both men and women who look like they're actors from Beverly Hills 90210

[@hollister2320]

Vaush, you buried the lead on the Chinese-Vietnamese war, China got beat so bad they ran away and called a ceasefire. Against Vietnam which spent 15 years fighting America😭

[@appa609]

Russia = masculinity China = nationalism USA = inclusivity

[@les_chegwin]

Vaush doing the Dave Courtney voice "highly illegal" due to hearing it on WTYP without knowing where it comes from is very funny to me

[@erikvan9582]

Yep the great muscular Russian millitary,currently doing a mass self injury to avoid getting gunned down by Ukranians

[@rogerstroklund6809]

IIRC, Russians were so hooked on Pepsi, that Crystal Pepsi was originally designed for visiting Russian leaders. They could drink Pepsi in front of Americans, and the Russians watching back home would think it was Vodka.

[@davitdavid7165]

I can't express how larpy the words in the Russian one are. It is like "you prove yourself to yourself, the commander is inly there to be your enemy, because with out an enemy there is no fight." It is even cringyer than you think. Also, I don't get why there are what appear to be mosin animations. I mean, it is accurate but not something to be proud of.

[@OccuredJakub12]

I'm sure propagating the idea that your own commander is your enemy would in no way have any negative repercussions on solider morale and organization. It is true, though.

[@davitdavid7165]

@@OccuredJakub12 pushing individualism in an add for an organisation reliant on cooperation. Very smart.

[@Dave102693]

@@davitdavid7165 very smart indeed

[@zenbear9952]

Wait the commander is there to be your enemy? No wonder they can't fight Ukraine when they have to deal with their commander first lol

[@AoiZassoOFCL]

@@OccuredJakub12 it's purely to appeal to teenagers who wanna "take back their masculinity", they're desperate for personnel

[@twisted_fo0l]

4 sixth generation jets exist in the world. 2 of them are owned by the United States. 4 sixth generation jets exist in the world. 2 of them are fully operational. 2 of those are american 🤣

[@morganangel340]

none are operational today... USA will have by 2030, and China by 2035 (also it can be a massive flop, like the F-35 fiasco 🤣🤣)

[@ObliviousPenguin]

The F-35 is cheaper than previous generation French Rafales fighter jets. It doesn't sound like a failure to me considering all the capabilities that it brings.

[@asherroodcreel640]

@@ObliviousPenguin you can't be good at everything, honestly I really don't think it will be much more then a meme

[@XMysticHerox]

There are no 6th generation aircraft. Not by any common definition. Many even argue there are no 5th generation ones. The EU next generation fighter will probably count but it is quite some time away.

[@morganangel340]

@@asherroodcreel640 F-15 and F-18 are better at what they do than F-35 (now you can huff as much insane amount of COPIUM as you want, won't change the fact that is a trillion dollar disaster)

[@YvraineSimp]

The newest carrier has less people, but most carriers are still nimitz class ships, when the air wing is aboard it is around 5k people. My last two deployments on the TR and the vinson were these types. cant wait for our zumwalt class destroyer and gford to be the standard rail guns and mag launched aircraft babyyyyyy

[@jonasgrant]

These ads remind me of the expression "Speak softly and carry a big stick."

[@323guiltyspark]

2:44 You and I started laughing at the exact same time.

[@ThePento5]

18:00 the Gerald Ford is specifically designed to operate with a 1/3 smaller crew compared to previous US aircraft carriers

[@theangryricefarmer6715]

I remember when I first joined the Navy, I was in boot camp and one of the instructors was talking about how we had just glassed some dictators Palace from 40 miles away off the shoreline with a missile barrage.

[@TURBOMIKEIFY]

I want the world united so bad. A recent want in my life, maybe 6 months old. But, DAMN, do I love living in a country with the biggest military! Didn't even know we had 2 of the biggest Airforces.

[@mrsnrub282]

You know what's even better? Living in a country protected by the 2 biggest air forces but with healthcare and no school shootings

[@hughquigley5337]

That would be fucking DOPE

[@hughquigley5337]

Also yes I would like to see the world as a cooperative endeavor and not a competitive one. Maybe one day…

[@embrikchloraker8186]

Ever played Command and Conquer? Lore-wise, the geopolitics are very different and very interesting. That said, I'd rather live in a country with guaranteed food, housing and medical care than history's strongest military.

[@bobbirdsong6825]

@@mrsnrub282 exactly, the thing is that the military gets these benefits. some people might say "that's because you fight for it" but most members are not in combat roles and these benefits are extended to direct family members and civilians that just work for the government with a NAF or foreign affairs job. and the fact that such a ridiculously strong support network that could make even the most socialist northern Europeans cream at the thought of it doesn't even take up that significant of a portion of the total "operations" allotment for the budget is what is really crazy.

[@matiasyannuzzi9655]

China: Our numbers are endless, our discipline is ironclad. Russia: We casually wrestle bears into submission as a part-time. USA: Haha railgun goes boom

[@hughmungus2760]

USA: retreats after losing to peasants and goat herders.

[@markmaurer6370]

Wolf Warrior is the real Chinese recruitment video

[@markmaurer6370]

@HuskyOps China made a couple of military action movies that are kind of like commando or top gun

[@GeneralBongmeister]

1:30 it looks like a HOI4 mod

[@silaskuemmerle2505]

China or Russia: Announces new piece of hardware American Military Industrial Complex: "That's cute, we already have a countermeasure ready to be deployed and something technically superior to boot"

[@andrewlynch4126]

What’s even better is that most of the time it’s just an inferior version of US tech they stole via cyberattack

[@hughmungus2760]

chinese spies: Yoink.

[@deadpan237]

the javelins destroying russian tanks being from the 80s isnt all that impressive considering the russian tanks are from the 60s lmfao

[@CrowePerch]

The Russian ad trying its absolute hardest to be gayer than Telltale's American Bisexual Drone Pilot Brigade ™

[@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan]

Gotta have Pepsi with that Pizza Hut

[@con-radical5481]

Thanks for The Blue Book, von Steuben. And for America as well. Couldn't have done it without ya!

[@v0id_d3m0n]

I like that China's at least shows u what you're in for. Looks pretty discouraging to me tbh

[@joystickanimations4367]

Got a military add during this lol

[@nok4799]

You know, I probably would join the military, given I don't know what the fuck to do with my life ATM. What stopped me from considering it was that they cut your hair though💀

[@hughquigley5337]

I don’t want to join it because I don’t think I could handle the pressure and also I giving me a weapon is a very bad idea. I would use it to um… blast myself into the afterlife. Let’s put it like that.

[@hughquigley5337]

Also if you really want to join (they have healthcare and stuff so honestly why wouldn’t you) then maybe double check the hair limitations. I know that different accommodations have been made for people with different cultural backgrounds/religions/etc

[@doratheace]

Check out Adam Something's parody of the Russian ad.

[@Alex_Vir]

@derzzsh Person who doesn't want russia to win in Ukraine = Ukrain nationalist

[@asherroodcreel640]

I own a Truck...

[@asherroodcreel640]

It's painted Red...

[@jansettler4828]

@derzzsh You're obsessed with Vaush'n'Friends little tankie boi

[@jansettler4828]

@derzzsh There are no banderites, clownboi

[@lamb6549]

This is just my experience, but seeing all that military hardware in the chinese ad would scare the fuck out of me

[@andrewlynch4126]

If you get scared by military equipment in an ad then being in the military probably isn’t for you

[@lamb6549]

@@andrewlynch4126 yeah, but if your goal is to convince the biggest amount of people, reminding them that they could be riddled with gun shots or that they could blow up in a supersonic jet, doesn't look like the best strategy to me: people who like those things, are most probably already thinking about joining the military nonetheless

[@lamb6549]

@@andrewlynch4126 The American one is the best one at this, IMO. They know that people who love guns and jets and battleships and tanks are easier to convince, so they moved their target (yes, in a disgustingly corny way) to people who usually don't

[@andrewlynch4126]

@@lamb6549 I suppose you’re right that the military needs a bunch of admin positions and mechanics but that doesn’t mean they will never see combat, pushing papers in a war zone is still being in a war zone it seems like false advertising to say “hey we have safe desk jobs too don’t worry” maybe the US one is the best at lying if that’s an accomplishment

[@lamb6549]

@@andrewlynch4126 the military lies nonetheless, the USA one Is doing It the right way

[@beelzebublovers5809]

It weirds me out that in the American military ad the woman is like “what have I accomplished on my own?” As if she didn’t, in her own words, graduate high school at the top of her class and then graduate from college. Those are challenges. Those are accomplishments. Why belittle academic success?

[@BornOnThursday]

Plus, college for what? Did she just pick a random major without a plan? Also, as said in the video, why the military, like, wtf?

[@methuselah8885]

I'm guessing that it's supposed to appeal to high schoolers/graduates and insecurity at that age. But it might have worked better if she said that she decided to prove herself in college by joining the military and studying in a stem field for free

[@aidandurkan15]

It should also be pointed out that armer can't keep up with new weaponry. That's why tanks are so less efficient than they used to be. Because one guy can take out a tank. But also you can't have a ground war with out them. But if you add in drones and others things you can take out armed vehicles.

[@briannaburrows3748]

If she graduated from college why did she enlist as a noncom?

[@thenewestdivinhell8979]

That whole backstory was likely made up.

[@theangryricefarmer6715]

The town with flash just now made me burst out laughing in my car

[@keyboardoracle1044]

China were in Korea, that’s why it was called a draw, the US couldn’t defeat them, China also had. A proxy war in vietnam which they won. USA has never fared well against China in war. But no, they have no recent experience.

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

Their last experience ended with them declaring victory and retreating from Vietnam.

[@hughmungus2760]

@@ChucksSEADnDEAD right after the US bailed from vietnam.

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

@@hughmungus2760 The US left Vietnam as they were under a peace deal. China fled Vietnam to avoid being encircled during a war.

[@hughmungus2760]

@@ChucksSEADnDEAD the US abandoned the south expecting them to survive, they didn't

[@darrellmurray4928]

Funny thing about the video recommendation at the end of the US promo, I live in Philly, and I don't remember that Wawa incident at all. Some kids must have ran in and stole makeup and condoms or some bullshit like that.

[@appa609]

The army song goes hard

[@xanosghoul]

The Russian, Chinese and American Army differ in that the former to require blind jingoism and only prefer competency as much as it can make the state look beautiful. While the latter requires competency and prefers jingoism so much as it makes the state look beautiful.

[@MickGallJr]

Real question here. The woman in the American recruitment ad graduated college, but is a corporal?

[@thenewestdivinhell8979]

Likely fabrication

[@flyindevil]

1:48 BOOPY

[@Andy-br1hq]

Just for the record, the larger aircraft carrier has twice the crew as the largest sail ship. No knocking the sail ship. Also, pronouncing Gerald Ford’s name is something I didn’t know had multiple options

[@MrHodoAstartes]

The thing about those enormous carriers is that they are still vulnerable. A single torpedo can cripple or sink them. During exercises German submarines have successfully infiltrated a carrier group and simulated a torpedo launch before disappearing again. During this maneuver there were American officer present on the submarine. Who probably aged ten years in the process as they had to watch a demonstration of their most underfunded ally executing an attack on a carrier without ever being noticed. Based on their submarine not being nuclear but hydrogen-powered, which made it too quiet to be picked up. Naval might is deceptive in that it can always be broken if anyone gets the least bit of an angle. Large carriers are ridiculously more expensive than any weapon that can sink one.

[@ObliviousPenguin]

Military exercises are often meant to be lost, as it's less costly to "lose" during training, than in real combat. They're literally designed to expose and address vulnerabilities and shortcomings.

[@XMysticHerox]

@@ObliviousPenguin They are meant to simulate reality to learn lessons. The exercizes were not designed for the carrier to loose. They were designed to simulate a real situation in which a carrier group gets attacked by advanced attack subs. The idea that the US would win against the rest of the world is pretty absurd. Yes the US military is more powerful than China by a lot but the entire worlds industry would very quickly outperform anything the US could do. A united EU military would already be a serious challenge as a lot of the tech is on the same level.

[@jansettler4828]

@@XMysticHerox I agree with this, but I hoestly think the US would beat Russia and China 1v2 in a non nuclear war.

[@XMysticHerox]

@@jansettler4828 Definitely have the advantage though it'd depend on the war. I don't see the US invading China succesfully for instance.

[@jansettler4828]

@@XMysticHerox Ye. On neutral grounds. Like South East Asia or eastern/central europe or middle east or south america. On Homegrounds it won't be possible. Though I think if a non-nuclear NATO invaded a non nuclear russia today I think after half a year of lies corruption and failure the russians would just kill Putin and make peace

[@baronblackdragon9078]

Greek life was so bad it made her join the army 💀

[@Mox1990]

Vietnam vs china would lead to the end of all tankies

[@c.m.9369]

Turns out: Building your army around being the most maskulin manly man-men won‘t translate into military success. Who‘d have thunk!

[@Altorin]

america is just trolling. Gotta say, I love it.

[@PedestrianPony]

People constantly post about the size of China's Navy but if you dig into it the majority of their ships are super out of date and the technology (even on their new carriers) is so bad that their ability to project force basically crumbles to zero outside of the south China sea. Most of the threats we see about other country's militaries are just related to them making gains but the discrepancy isn't even close when it comes to the US.

[@hughmungus2760]

not really, the majority of chinese surface warships are newer than the US, they're smaller but they're all built within the past 20 years. The US as it stands is suffering the problem of 80s era warships retiring and not having enough shipyards to build replacements.

[@zotaninoron3548]

I'll be honest, I don't think China could beat pre-Ukraine conflcit Russia. They have all the same issues with corruption but without ever having deployed a successful military doctrine beyond the theoretical. Given its lack of action to flush out the inept. I can't imagine it is anything but *heavily* laden under the burden of nepotism and favor trading for prestige.

[@themajesticmoose8147]

You’d reckon the nepotism and corruption would be routed out. With eventually the army and the government getting their shit together when the chips are down. But Russia has proven that the opposite is entirely true. Sadly in China’s case we’d probably have to wait and see, hopefully not though.

[@themajesticmoose8147]

Rooted*

[@persistentpedestrianalien8641]

Troubling that commercials for the armed forces are cartoons.

[@thenewestdivinhell8979]

Troubling that the armed forces advertise.

[@Warsmith_The]

Sad to see that Vaush is in the "short E" camp of how to pronounce "cretin" and not the "long E" one... I expected more from him... 😔

[@manjackson2772]

Sorry he mispronounced the name of your people

[@iamaloafofbread8926]

2 of them are coping ads, I'll give you a loaf of bread if you guess which ones. :v

[@hughquigley5337]

China and Russia?

[@egesanl1]

@@hughquigley5337 You sir are the proud owner of our gift! All we need to send you the gift of [1 bread] is your state ishued credit card number , comunist numbers on the back and your glorious comarad mothers maiden name

[@iamaloafofbread8926]

@@hughquigley5337 very good 👏 have a loaf of bread 🍞 , don't let Beky with the 2 moms clap you.

[@alexandertownsend3291]

Buster calls? Nice! I love One Piece, but now I have the voice of that one character stuck in my head. I think his name was Used Condom or something like that.

[@hughquigley5337]

His name was what

[@asherroodcreel640]

@@hughquigley5337 Grover Cleveland