there’s an old World War II saying that goes like this:
If you encounter a unit that you cannot identify, shoot once over their heads so it won’t hit anyone.
If you encounter a unit that you cannot identify, shoot once over their heads so it won’t hit anyone.
- If the response is rapid, precise rifle fire, they’re British.
- If the response is a shitstorm of machine-gun fire, they’re German.
- If they throw down their guns and surrender, they’re either French or Italian.
- If you hear a whistle, and then all of a sudden your position is charged by hundreds of soldiers screaming ‘UUUURRRRRAAAAAA!!!!!’, then they’re Russian.
- And, if nothing happens for five minutes and then your position is obliterated by artillery or an airstrike…