• happybadger [he/him]
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    17 hours ago

    You missed the latest narrative. They're burning the faces off of dead North Korean soldiers so that the noble Ukrainians can't identify them as such.

    • huf [he/him]
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      17 hours ago

      soooo, since every accusation is projection, does this mean that nato's burning the faces off of dead nato troops in ukraine?

      • happybadger [he/him]
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        15 hours ago

        I know they've been accused of hiding the deaths of international mercenaries in the past but can't think of any specific recent crisis they'd need to do propaganda for in that regard. The fog of war makes piecing this together hard. My best guess is that it's racist propaganda to downplay strong Russian recruitment of its Asian minority groups while the Ukrainian TCC can't kidnap enough medically disqualified grandpas to replace its casualties/rotate its forces. I've read that for groups like the Yakuts the amount of money the Russian military is paying can be generational wealth. Maybe there is some North Korean attache learning how to counter NATO weapons, but the big PR crisis they face is the manpower shortage and downplaying Russia's ability to win a war of attrition domestically. Calling those minority groups North Koreans seems like it's World War 3 baiting with the "impossibly weak but impossibly strong" boogeyman.

    • Infamousblt [any]
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      15 hours ago

      Oh yeah totally. They gotta do that just in case future photographers figure out how to get around the photography hacking

    • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]
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      13 hours ago

      Zelensky making this one up is weird because presumably these people are dying on active battle zones, so how would the Russians rush into no mans land and burn the faces without being shot at?

      • happybadger [he/him]
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        15 hours ago

        Teacher I swear I spent all night Quickly ENDING IN DISASTER, but a fire ate my North Korean. It was over and they were dead I promise.