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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months ago

Desertion threatens to starve Ukraine's forces at a crucial time in its war with Russia

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Desertion threatens to starve Ukraine's forces at a crucial time in its war with Russia

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months ago
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Desertion is starving the Ukrainian army of desperately needed manpower and crippling its battle plans at a crucial time in its war with Russia
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  • Bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org
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    Ukraine? Desertion? That doesn’t seem credible…

    Can someone familiar with the topic please enlighten me on why is this happening?

    I remember Zelensky saying “We cannot force people into war with sticks”, so you are telling me that people are joining the army only to desert en masse later? That makes little sense to me…

    Don’t they know that if Putin wins they will all be exterminated in his concentration camps, like those poor people in Crimea and Melitopol that orcs have already captured?

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      Is this a mix of earnestness and sarcasm, or is it all sarcasm? Because most people on Lemmy are fully steeped in Western propaganda, and any sarcasm will whoosh right over their heads.

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        I’m trying to catch a liberal here, don’t spook them :(

        But jokes aside, yeah it is sarcasm. I’m a Ukrainian so I know very well why people don’t want to fight for the slave owning clown with a main character syndrome.

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          Ah, a self-hating Ukrainian then.

          Why would these clowns have main character syndrome?

          • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_of_the_People_(2015_TV_series)
          • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apprentice_(American_TV_series)
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            Dunno why you consider me self-hating, but OK :)

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              It’s a joke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hating_Jew

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                Ah, I see :)

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