cannon fodder

Was scheduling cannon fodder such as Missouri State a necessary step to reach the College Football Playoff or a cynical effort to conceal USC’s mediocrity?

To this day, an official cult of Stalin endures, deployed today to motivate Russians to serve as cannon fodder in Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine war.

The Storm-V units have been used by Russia as cannon fodder, sent to stage assaults on the worst parts of the frontline.

Then, just like the Confederate slave conscripts, just like the Russian cannon fodder in Bakhmut, they’ll be discarded — forgotten, broken and left to rot in the very ruins they helped create.

The bad guys are cannon fodder, though I did like the way one mobster sadly sighs at a grenade before he explodes.