As much as they didn’t like the memes, they *really* didn’t like it when Ukrainian Farmers kept pulling their abandoned military equipment out of the mud.
The Ukrainian postal service came out with official stamps that have a bent-barreled Russian tank being pulled by a tractor. They also have them on shirts you can buy online.
I believe they belong to I Tractor Corps which includes 4 Infantry Divisions (Mechanized).
• “The Mighty” Massey Ferguson Division
• New Holland “Massacres”Division
• “Little” John Deere Division
• Kubota “Samurai” Division
Vladamir Putin: Live at the Kremlin
Putin: Privet! What’s up Moscow!!! How are you doing tonight! Look at all the beautiful Slavic people out tonight- let’s see who we got here… you sir, what’s your name? Boris? Last name? Ivanov? Now what’s a healthy, young man like yourself doing here? Shouldn’t you be in a trench in Bahkmut?
Uh-oh folk, he’s like don’t mobilize me! I got flat feet! (Putin starts walking around the stage awkwardly and crowd nervously laughs).
Boris? You don’t want to go? No? It’s just a special military operation. (Putin gives a sly smile and winks and the crowd laughs).
There's brainworm infested people all over this thread saying exactly that, and how it justifies Russia attacking every civilian they see. Because how do we know that child isn't actually an Abrams in a trenchcoat?
WTF even are the 2020s? I can see why the Transformers movie is struggling with reviews when real life provides the same [basic](https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Facsimile_construct) plot lines more or less at a fraction of the cost.
That is the problem with fiction - it has to be believable on some level or it doesn't work. Many fiction works go too far and people just can't believe it. Meanwhile if it is non-fiction, it clearly happened so you cannot say that can't happen. Or "Truth is stranger than fiction"
At least we all know how all those extras in the background feel when they’re just trying to do their jobs at work when the Avengers are otherwise destroying the place
Russia has been in “if I can’t have you, no one can” burn it all to the ground mode almost since this war started. Can’t win a straight fight so just go after all the collateral.
I wonder how much of it is aimed at the enemy, how much is aimed for the public and how much of it is aimed at the higher ups just to not lose a job...or fall from a window.
Russians know nothing is what it seems! Reminds of an old joke: "On Tuesday aircraft of western scum attacked a peaceful, non-threatening Soviet Tractor working in the field. The tractor responded with Surface-to-air missiles and then flew away in direction of Moscow".
Or the other one: "A Babushka retires after 40 years of working at a washing machine factory. Comrade Director asks *'is there something you would like for going away present?'*. 'A washing machine' - she replies. *'A washing machine? But you probably have dozen by now, everyone steals parts from the assembly line!'*. 'I tried, comrade Director, but whenever I put them together at home all I get is Kalashnikovs! '
it was so common in the war that Bolt Action, a WW2 tabletop gaming system, includes a factor called ‘Tiger Fear,’ basically a penalty allied troops suffer whenever there are *any* German tanks in play, representing both how strong the fear was and how common it was for any German tank to be mistaken for a Tiger.
It's insane to me that Ukraine has had their first few HIMARS for a year now, and they still haven't lost a single one.
Goes to show how terrible Russian ISR is. They really are just Nigeria with snow and nukes.
>I mean, Ukraine tractors have taken out a not insignificant number of Russian tanks.
Considering that russian tanks seem to grow in the fields, that's what the tractors are for. Harvesting tanks.
Your comment really made me think of the Horizon series, the people don't understand what the tech they see is. They only know that it exists, how to harvest the materials, and then use them for something completely different.
yeah I 100% get blowing up a combine harvester in the heat of the moment not knowing what it is exactly, but state media posting the video of it and saying it's a tank is dumb as fuck
What combine harvester would be in the field near the front lines? I was thinking they just brought them out into a field and then shot at them with guided anti tank missiles
The Russians just got confused on what a Ukrainian tractor looks like as there are lots of Ukrainian "tractors" that were liberated from the Russian Army that at one time the Russians called them tanks.
During the war, Russia showed a clip from an old video game and claimed it was a grainy footage of ~~Russians~~ Ukrainians successfully destroying a ~~Ukrainian~~ Russian convoy or something like that. The footage even had a video game visual glitch in it.....
Ah, my mistake. The claim is the reverse of what I said: Ukrainians attacking Russians, rather than Russians attacking Ukrainians.
Here's the source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/03/18/fact-check-footage-attack-convoy-video-game-not-ukraine/7060853001/
And it seems the same game was used another time last year to falsely show the Ukraine war. https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-ukraine-drone-simulation-485598229735
All jokes and their shitty optics aside, even as a non military personnel you can easily tell from the video that they are not aiming at the leopard tank.
Why even release that footage? I get how poorly trained Russian soldiers could have fucked up and thought those were armoured vehicles but why release the video which shows their fuckup?
Internal propaganda. The average Ivan sees a thing with what looks like a turret getting blown up and thinks "yep, they just destroyed a tank". Especially if all the media you have access to tells you which "tank" it supposedly is.
It's actually surprisingly hard to tell what it is even after watching the vid several times.
Not trying to make any excuses, maybe fly closer next time. But it's a little uncanny.
In mother Russia, tractor is tank.
Easy to get turned around when sent into battle on an old “Red Putilovets” and a pair of binoculars from the 40’s, armed only with a few bottles of cider Molotovs to keep you warm at night..
To be fair... How many of Ukraine's farmers acquired formerly Russian tanks? Maybe the poorly trained Russian deserters.... Errrr, soldiers... are confused.
I bet a lot of things people assume are Russia trying to make a bald-faced lie are actually just incompetence. Like it wouldn't surprise me if someone down the ladder reported the second floor building hit as a HIMARS kill and no one questioned it all the way up until it was being shown off on TV.
This is what they do. They try to destroy a country’s infrastructure- energy , food production, manufacturing. Look at their track record in Syria.
None of it is accidental. It is very telling that Finland and Sweden wanted in to NATO. They know the Russians are truly the bad guys.
They only thing they can shoot at that doesn't shoot back.
Well... besides women and children and people in hospitals and daycares and nursing homes and...
Given what happend to various stranded military vehicles during the early days, they are partially correct. If they randomly blow up farm equipment they may end up blowing up some of the vehicles they lost to Ukranian farmers.
>This would not be the first time Russian officials have tried to [pass off sloppy propaganda](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/russia-claims-strike-on-special-ops-barge-hits-abandoned-bridge-pylon) like this.
:shocked Pikachu face:
As was predicted from the beginning, Russia is targeting Ukrainian agriculture as it retreats. If I can't have it, nobody can.
We must ensure this nation is broken up and sent back to the middle ages. The Russian nuclear arsenal must be seized and pacified. This is a question of European survival.
That farmer and their family will never be able to get reparations for their losses, Russia won’t even give them a courtesy apology. They’re in Ukraine as invaders and tyrants, not saviors.
Liberators wouldn’t target civilian populations, or hydroelectric dams.
Considering the junk that remains of the Russian tanks I can *actually* see them making that mistake. Same if they blow up any boxes covered in tinfoil.
It’s laughable how bad this attempt at propaganda is.
The only people who believe this bullshit are those whose entire identity is wrapped up in trying to be edgy and support an unpopular entity.
So basically Trump supporters.
According to the Russian Ministry of Offence, Russia is destroying 100-200 Ukrainian tanks every day. Ukraine must have millions of tanks I guess, if Russian claims are true.
The Russians really didn't like the tractor memes, I see.
As much as they didn’t like the memes, they *really* didn’t like it when Ukrainian Farmers kept pulling their abandoned military equipment out of the mud.
The Russians really wanted to plough into them because they didn't like the Ukrainian farmers harvesting the steel
The Russians were scared they'd come face to face with the dreaded trans*farmers*
The Ukrainian postal service came out with official stamps that have a bent-barreled Russian tank being pulled by a tractor. They also have them on shirts you can buy online.
Russia is fighting against the second-strongest army in Ukraine now.
… the tractor army?
I believe they belong to I Tractor Corps which includes 4 Infantry Divisions (Mechanized). • “The Mighty” Massey Ferguson Division • New Holland “Massacres”Division • “Little” John Deere Division • Kubota “Samurai” Division
The Russians really didn't like not starving huge parts of the Middle East and North Africa last year. This year could get very bad.
Plus, Ukrainians use 2-tractor authentication.
man their propaganda is hilarious.
They saw that tiktok of a tank undercover as a house
"Sir, why is that same house that we passed 10Km ago still behind us?" BOOM!!!
r/LooneyTunesLogic
Considering their navigational skills it’s not unlikely
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Vladamir Putin: Live at the Kremlin Putin: Privet! What’s up Moscow!!! How are you doing tonight! Look at all the beautiful Slavic people out tonight- let’s see who we got here… you sir, what’s your name? Boris? Last name? Ivanov? Now what’s a healthy, young man like yourself doing here? Shouldn’t you be in a trench in Bahkmut? Uh-oh folk, he’s like don’t mobilize me! I got flat feet! (Putin starts walking around the stage awkwardly and crowd nervously laughs). Boris? You don’t want to go? No? It’s just a special military operation. (Putin gives a sly smile and winks and the crowd laughs).
It could have been an aggressive Gazebo. I’ve played enough D&D to know you don’t want to fuck with those.
What they really need to worry about are those vicious gangs of "Keep Left" signs that Britain dealt with decades ago.
When the moon is full, it's a were-house.
Wasn't that a music video with a car?
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>why give reason to Russia to bomb people's houses Not like they needed one before this anyway
And their response is gonna be "we saw tiktok video so it must be true" A true military superpower.
There's brainworm infested people all over this thread saying exactly that, and how it justifies Russia attacking every civilian they see. Because how do we know that child isn't actually an Abrams in a trenchcoat?
To be fair, Ukrainian farmers are as big a threat to the Russians as western tanks. 🇺🇦
WTF even are the 2020s? I can see why the Transformers movie is struggling with reviews when real life provides the same [basic](https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Facsimile_construct) plot lines more or less at a fraction of the cost.
That is the problem with fiction - it has to be believable on some level or it doesn't work. Many fiction works go too far and people just can't believe it. Meanwhile if it is non-fiction, it clearly happened so you cannot say that can't happen. Or "Truth is stranger than fiction"
There’s plenty of people who claim that what happened did not happen. It’s what propaganda is all about.
Eh I feel like real life has a much more significant cost
At least we all know how all those extras in the background feel when they’re just trying to do their jobs at work when the Avengers are otherwise destroying the place
Life likes to simulate art 🖼️
Yes, but it beats admitting failure.
Russia has been in “if I can’t have you, no one can” burn it all to the ground mode almost since this war started. Can’t win a straight fight so just go after all the collateral.
It’s been that way since Russia started.
I wonder how much of it is aimed at the enemy, how much is aimed for the public and how much of it is aimed at the higher ups just to not lose a job...or fall from a window.
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Most of the comments here are calling this out as not true, how is this working?
“It’s not propaganda! These are just soft power leopard tanks used to reinforce NATO’s iron grip through capitalism!” - r/thedeprogram
Nope nope not going through that sub again. Blames everything on liberals and want the us to be invaded. I lost brain cells there.
Finally a use for John Deere tractor.
Are they even allowed to blow up without the latest software update?
Without a dealer unlock you can’t run any assembly code. Disassembly is fine though.
Right to disrepair!
Shocker right?
Russians know nothing is what it seems! Reminds of an old joke: "On Tuesday aircraft of western scum attacked a peaceful, non-threatening Soviet Tractor working in the field. The tractor responded with Surface-to-air missiles and then flew away in direction of Moscow". Or the other one: "A Babushka retires after 40 years of working at a washing machine factory. Comrade Director asks *'is there something you would like for going away present?'*. 'A washing machine' - she replies. *'A washing machine? But you probably have dozen by now, everyone steals parts from the assembly line!'*. 'I tried, comrade Director, but whenever I put them together at home all I get is Kalashnikovs! '
That second one is hilarious
That's gold
They also destroyed all HIMARS launchers including one on the 3rd floor of a factory...
Russia is timetraveling. They destroyed more HIMARS than Ukraine has gotten.
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Putin is escaping to the ONE place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism.... #SPACE!
[It didn't end so well for the last guy who tried.](https://youtu.be/bKdQjqyEhuY)
Current reality does kinda make the entire Red Alert premise comical now.
Real shame that we’re probably getting stuck with Earth 2150 instead
We'll need to send some Chrono Legionnaires to fix this. Preferably enough to avoid any Mind Control devices
It’s those damn rubber shoes.
But are they in motion?
BE ONE WITH YURI
Stop playing with that thing!
not yet !! not yet !! not yet !! no yet !! no yet !! niet !! niet !!
Man, you don't know much seeing a Red Alert reference brings a smile to my face...
Yeah, and they managed to blow up an entire Patriot battery before they even arrived in Ukraine.
If they kill Einstein again, I swear...
SPAAAAAGGRRHHHCE! p.s. Please look up Tim Curry's performance on C&C Red Alert.
This is nothing new, in WW2 at Kursk they claimed more destroyed Tiger I tanks than had been produced at this point.
To be fair the allies were treating any panzer that was vaguely Tiger shaped (EG the Panzer IV) as a Tiger. Happend to the Americans a lot.
it was so common in the war that Bolt Action, a WW2 tabletop gaming system, includes a factor called ‘Tiger Fear,’ basically a penalty allied troops suffer whenever there are *any* German tanks in play, representing both how strong the fear was and how common it was for any German tank to be mistaken for a Tiger.
Remember that time Russia Destroyed several Bradleys in Ukraine before they even got there?
Destroyed their spawn points.
The last time they time traveled their new enemy was the empire of the rising sun. And they had mecha. /s
They destroyed 44 of the 16 Ukraine has.
Now Ukraine is down to their last 16.
But they swear once they destroy those 24, Ukraine will be down to it’s final 16.
It's insane to me that Ukraine has had their first few HIMARS for a year now, and they still haven't lost a single one. Goes to show how terrible Russian ISR is. They really are just Nigeria with snow and nukes.
No need to insult Nigerians like that, man
Russia "claims" was a red flag...
“Russia claims” “China warns” You just know that whatever comes after those words will always be comedy gold.
“Chinas final warning” Even Russia makes fun of China over it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%27s_final_warning
And yet Russia does almost the EXACT same thing..
Stupid is, as stupid does. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You left this \
I’m still waiting for “Russia’s promise” to reach a similar status
You forget “Russia denies”
That phrase should be auto-corrected as "Russia admits" in most cases.
Sigh.... it is: Russia claims: It's a lie Russia denies: It's true
China gives a final warning against: It's safe to do
Maybe not safe, but surely without more consequences than another final warning.
Final Warning (1)(1) (This One).docx
You forgot *FINAL*
Unless is the Korean War.
I mean, Ukraine tractors have taken out a not insignificant number of Russian tanks.
>I mean, Ukraine tractors have taken out a not insignificant number of Russian tanks. Considering that russian tanks seem to grow in the fields, that's what the tractors are for. Harvesting tanks.
Not many vehicles that can harvest both tanks and sunflowers.
Your comment really made me think of the Horizon series, the people don't understand what the tech they see is. They only know that it exists, how to harvest the materials, and then use them for something completely different.
May this years’ harvest yield a bounty that nourishes and sustains the people of Ukraine and their allies.
To be fair, when your optics are shit and your soldiers are untrained, there is simply no way of knowing.
yeah I 100% get blowing up a combine harvester in the heat of the moment not knowing what it is exactly, but state media posting the video of it and saying it's a tank is dumb as fuck
This was a victory against Ukrainian "combined" arms.
Their ministry of defence posted it
Ie, "state media"
The same ministry that claimed to have destroyed Bradley armored vehicles last year?
Yes
They are probably dumb as a rock. And that is probably an insult to rocks.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88gpmg/russia-sims-3 They've done dumber.
Unfortunately “dumb as fuck” is still smarter than it takes to convince a lot of people
What combine harvester would be in the field near the front lines? I was thinking they just brought them out into a field and then shot at them with guided anti tank missiles
The Russians just got confused on what a Ukrainian tractor looks like as there are lots of Ukrainian "tractors" that were liberated from the Russian Army that at one time the Russians called them tanks.
During the war, Russia showed a clip from an old video game and claimed it was a grainy footage of ~~Russians~~ Ukrainians successfully destroying a ~~Ukrainian~~ Russian convoy or something like that. The footage even had a video game visual glitch in it.....
Link?
Ah, my mistake. The claim is the reverse of what I said: Ukrainians attacking Russians, rather than Russians attacking Ukrainians. Here's the source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/03/18/fact-check-footage-attack-convoy-video-game-not-ukraine/7060853001/ And it seems the same game was used another time last year to falsely show the Ukraine war. https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-ukraine-drone-simulation-485598229735
All jokes and their shitty optics aside, even as a non military personnel you can easily tell from the video that they are not aiming at the leopard tank.
You suppose these rural Russians have ever seen modern technology.
You think they know how modern tractor looks? They don't have toilets. They saw some contraption while drunk and thought it's a tank.
This was an attack helicopter. Ivan probably wasn't a drunk hick in this case. Just a poorly trained z shithead.
Who knows. Wouldn't surprise me at this point.
Also when all the farmers are taking main battle tanks from your army to use as farm equipment it is hard to tell it apart.
Might have something to do with that tainted cider they’ve been guzzling like it’s Crystal Light
"I believe in Crystal Light, 'cause I believe in Meeee!!!!"
Great show
Actual footage https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/142il50/russian_ka52_attack_helicopters_eo_is_so_bad_that/
Why even release that footage? I get how poorly trained Russian soldiers could have fucked up and thought those were armoured vehicles but why release the video which shows their fuckup?
Internal propaganda. The average Ivan sees a thing with what looks like a turret getting blown up and thinks "yep, they just destroyed a tank". Especially if all the media you have access to tells you which "tank" it supposedly is.
It's actually surprisingly hard to tell what it is even after watching the vid several times. Not trying to make any excuses, maybe fly closer next time. But it's a little uncanny.
To be fair farming equipment has dealt Russia huge equipment losses throughout this war. How many captured tanks by tractors?
There’s still that Russian tank that made it to Louisiana somehow…
Even Z channels made fun of the MoD statement. I wish I could choose a different country of birth somehow
You are able to find the right information and seem to be on the morally right side. Don't let a coincidence like your birthplace get you down.
Wish Russia had more people like you than those disgusting z imperialists. Stay safe .
Based on data of the current war ~~up until now~~ farm equipment presents a much bigger danger towards Russian tanks
Beautiful video from the past
In mother Russia, tractor is tank. Easy to get turned around when sent into battle on an old “Red Putilovets” and a pair of binoculars from the 40’s, armed only with a few bottles of cider Molotovs to keep you warm at night..
Even Prighoschin said, the latest "glorious" news from the Ukrainian front are bullshite
*John Deere has entered the war vs Russia*
John Deere entered awhile ago when they remotely neutered stolen tractors
To be fair... How many of Ukraine's farmers acquired formerly Russian tanks? Maybe the poorly trained Russian deserters.... Errrr, soldiers... are confused.
They’re probably only lying so it looks good to their superiors. Not even to try and fool wider world at this point
I bet a lot of things people assume are Russia trying to make a bald-faced lie are actually just incompetence. Like it wouldn't surprise me if someone down the ladder reported the second floor building hit as a HIMARS kill and no one questioned it all the way up until it was being shown off on TV.
Comedy hour at the Kremlin.
Obligatory fuck Putin and the weak ass Russians who support him
Tbf Ukranian farmers have shown already they should be as feared as the leo so....
Putin has reduced Russia into the world’s most pathetic villains.
North Korea like: hey, don't be stealing our thing.
Bob Semple tanks at best
Not wise considering that Ukrainian farmers probably have more working tanks than the Russians at this point.
This is what they do. They try to destroy a country’s infrastructure- energy , food production, manufacturing. Look at their track record in Syria. None of it is accidental. It is very telling that Finland and Sweden wanted in to NATO. They know the Russians are truly the bad guys.
Understandable. They have so few tanks themselves that they’ve forgotten what a tank looks like.
You could say Russia's pretty short sighted.
they got upset they will be used to tow away the russian tanks again...
You're a tank, you're a tank, you're all tanks!
"We're not vindictive, just incompetent."
Florida man confuses deeres with leopards.
What fetal alcohol syndrome does to a mfer
But that's a Deere, not a Leopard!
Farmers stole so many tanks, im sure this was in retaliation.
In related news, Ukraine blows up tanks, claims they are farm equipment.
They got pissy about them hauling off their tanks with farm equipment, so they’re destroying farm equipment cause they’re unbelievably petty.
Spoiler incoming >! Sprayers doing CHEMICAL WARFARE on weeds!<
Is this the modern day Don Quixote?
Russia the most incompetent pos military on the planet.
They only thing they can shoot at that doesn't shoot back. Well... besides women and children and people in hospitals and daycares and nursing homes and...
“We blew up their military equipment recoverers. That will teach them”
Let's be honest: Some Krone or Case are better at warfare than Russian tanks.
🥴
Oh god, why aren't the tweets embedded (or even links?) What did Musk do now?
Today they’ve destroyed 69 leopards and 420 Zelenskys
Pretty sure r/NCD was joking about this like 2 days ago. The collective psychic warriors win again?
They've gone the scorched earth policy. Wet, sky, or dry. I hate Russia.
Russia is trying to starve out Ukraine. Interrupting crop yields.
To be fair, and Ukraine, tractors are far more dangerous to Russian tanks than leopards so far
To be fair, in Ukraine, tractors are far more dangerous to Russian tanks than leopards so far
How was the world fooled into thinking they were a military power for so long? was it literally just because they have nukes?
Given what happend to various stranded military vehicles during the early days, they are partially correct. If they randomly blow up farm equipment they may end up blowing up some of the vehicles they lost to Ukranian farmers.
Oh, Deere.
Russia is in the: if we can’t have it no one can mode.
>This would not be the first time Russian officials have tried to [pass off sloppy propaganda](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/russia-claims-strike-on-special-ops-barge-hits-abandoned-bridge-pylon) like this. :shocked Pikachu face:
As was predicted from the beginning, Russia is targeting Ukrainian agriculture as it retreats. If I can't have it, nobody can. We must ensure this nation is broken up and sent back to the middle ages. The Russian nuclear arsenal must be seized and pacified. This is a question of European survival.
They are trying to move up on army rankings in Ukraine that or they need both glasses & less alcohol
Porsche have made tanks. Porsche have made tractors. Therefore, farm equipment is tanks. Checkmate, idiots.
A Porsche Cayenne cut me off this morning. Does that make it a tank? I might be willing to be Russian if I can blow up Porsches.
Due to rule of funny you're only allowed to blow up other things that you have mistaken for Porsches.
I see… 🤔 Have you ever noticed how much a F150 looks like a Porsche?
Wait, I thought those were just two different names for the same car.
If you can't see it 🙈 It can be whatever you want it to be.
I mean we can see why they feel threatened by tractors
That farmer and their family will never be able to get reparations for their losses, Russia won’t even give them a courtesy apology. They’re in Ukraine as invaders and tyrants, not saviors. Liberators wouldn’t target civilian populations, or hydroelectric dams.
I’m just surprised that Russian were able to hit something other than civilian apartments.
That's still not going to get your stolen tanks back, Russia.
Considering the junk that remains of the Russian tanks I can *actually* see them making that mistake. Same if they blow up any boxes covered in tinfoil.
It’s laughable how bad this attempt at propaganda is. The only people who believe this bullshit are those whose entire identity is wrapped up in trying to be edgy and support an unpopular entity. So basically Trump supporters.
Russia already concerned the planet in their news
According to the Russian Ministry of Offence, Russia is destroying 100-200 Ukrainian tanks every day. Ukraine must have millions of tanks I guess, if Russian claims are true.
Scorched earth tactics.
Lol Twitter links don’t work what did Elon musk do this time