• jackmarxist [any]
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    10 hours ago

    Bro if ANY government kidnapped me from the streets and made me fight an optional war then my only goal in life would be to Sabotage the war effort.

  • echognomics [he/him]
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    9 hours ago

    [This desertion crisis] comes as the U.S. urges Ukraine to draft more troops, and allow for the conscription of those as young as 18.

    The US suggests implementation of vigorous structural adjustments programs in Ukraine to unlock yet-untapped youthful innovation and dynamism in the latter's thriving meat-processing industry.

  • kittin [he/him]
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    edit-2
    12 hours ago

    There should have been 120 men in each of the battalion’s companies, but some companies' ranks dropped to only 10 due to deaths, injuries and desertions, he said

    92% attrition rate.

    I’d be deserting too.

    Soldiers acquitted of desertion due to psychological reasons set a dangerous precedent because “then almost everyone is justified (to leave), because there are almost no healthy people left (in the infantry),” she said.

    Grim.

    • AmericaDelendaEst [comrade/them]
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      9 hours ago

      well duh I have the obvious Democrat focus-grouped solution: change the definition of a battalion company to 10 men

      idiots. god

      • TrashGoblin [he/him, they/them]
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        3 hours ago

        There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions.

      • Maturin [any]
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        9 hours ago

        “But what if all the other soldiers wanted to desert too?”

        “Then I’d be a damn fool to think anything else!”

  • damnatum_seditiosus [any]
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    11 hours ago

    Broken men and people, coming back to a broken country, possibly to create broken families.

    All this under the insatiable thirst for blood of the bourgeoisie.

    • Lyudmila [she/her, comrade/them]A
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      9 hours ago

      Fighting and dying to feed the bourgeoisie's thirst for proletarian blood, when we should be fighting and [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] porky-scared