• 🏳️‍⚧️ 新星 [she/they]
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    1 year ago

    His concept of combat power is the same as the regular definition, but raised to the tenth power.

    So reduction from 100% to 50% in his metric is really a reduction from 100% to 93.3%.

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      1 year ago

      What’s funny is even reducing Russian combat power by 5% in 2 years of proxy war actually sounds impressive to me, but I’m no general.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, I debated whether to do something more extreme like 100th power…

        That said, this says a lot about the original comment if you think about it.

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          It does. Though whether it says a lot about the speaker (that he’s dumb enough to believe such an exaggeration, or thinks Americans are), or the American public for foolishly believing something so outrageous, idk.