Yeah, it is.

But I don’t know what to tell you, the term predates the nazis by quote a bit.

They adopted it, but it was known from the age of dragoons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_troops

The sacred band of thebes were considered shock troops, and I’d suggest that’s closer to what the Russian idiots meant.

But I also wouldn’t be surprised if they were just copying the nazis without knowing.

A storm trooper is a member of storm troops, also called shock troops, which are trained for sudden assaults. They carried out attacks in World War I and in World War II, and they were a politica militia of the Nazi party (see Sturmabteilung or Brownshirts). The English storm troops is a direct translation of the German Sturmtruppen.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/storm-trooper

They were called storm troopers because they were the ones who stormed trenches during an assault.

It wasn’t considered a bad thing then, they were considered the elite.

It’s a commonly used term now, just like Assault Rifle from Sturmgewehr.

It’s become verbed, like googling.

Sturmtruppen was the German word for ‘assault troops’, much like sturmgewehr is their word for ‘assault rifle’ which was adopted by everyone else.

It means troops to storm a position, the heaviest troops for assaults.

We’d call them assault forces, or honestly, just marines (amphibious assault corps).

Hitler had a bunch of paramilitary followers (think Trump and his Jan 6 crowd) called the sturmabteilingen (sp?), which translated to storm troopers, because he thought it sounded impressive.

He later betrayed and murdered them, to curry favor with the army, which is so Hitler.

So no change for Russia then.

He’s a Midwestern republican, it’s less bad there and they can keep deniability that people are so insane.

A lot of the worst of this spread from the dixiecrats when they joined the GOP, what’s tragic is how Midwesterners keep convincing themselves that this is just normal politics and not the legacy of Jim Crow racism run amok.

I mean, he’s still a politician, but he’s a politician within the bounds of sanity.

Dewine isn’t crazy, he’s mostly a paleorepublican from before the dixiecrat coup.

He’s been fighting this insanity for a while, with mixed results.

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Who are you, who is so wise in the ways of science?

Not really, they’re kind of hated as a brand, when Chinese people see the Samsung brand they immediately think Huawei because they were taught Huawei is the Chinese Samsung.

I don’t know, I’ve heard of bdsm but even I don’t know anyone who gets off on invading a country 1/10th the size, getting your shit pushed in for 2 years and then having them invade YOU.

If you put that in pornhub I think it would just send the police to free anyone trapped in your basement.

But if there is one thing Russians have a very high tolerance for, it’s brutal public humiliation.

Yeah, but Canada never has to worry about being cut up for spare parts.

The whole reason putin attacked Ukraine was to look like an equally strong partner, much like mussolini did with Hitler when he attacked Italy, but that didn’t work out for putin.

Because they’re buying from Russia.

Which is the whole point, duck season’ing China into tying itself as closely to Russia as possible.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-war-belgorod-bomb-1.6817748

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/07/01/russia-glide-bomb-belgorod-fab/

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60528828