At first I was a bit skeptical about the 14/88 thing, admittedly it did sound like it could plausibly have been 2 random numbers of tanks(maybe it is anyways it doesn’t really matter tbh it’s still being used to defend a client state of Imperialism) but after seeing this comment, idk. This almost makes me double down as illogical as that sounds. The entire analysis is ridiculous and I almost thought it was a joke.
"Akschually it's a roman salute, not a Nazi salute" - favourite defense line of Nazis everywhere
Last year Russian troops captured an Azov base, and the pictures released showed, along with the usual swastika mugs, flags, etc., several laptops with Rick and Morty stickers
just using 88 for anything as a German would be suspicious by itself
"My friend account was deleted for inapropriate name because he had 88 in nickname, but he was just born in 1988!"
"What was his full nick?"
"gasthejews88"