Following the passing of Ukraine’s May 17 law to allow certain categories of prisoners to volunteer to serve in the military it was assessed that up to 20,000 would be eligible.
    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
      181·
      6 months ago

      that my neighbor thinks I’m such an existential threat

      Your neighbor doesn’t actually believe that. They’re just using that as an excuse to invade you, claim your natural resources, and population for their own desires.

        • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
          91·
          6 months ago

          Weird how they were happy to trade and provide loans to me before 2014.

          You mean while Moscow’s puppet President Viktor Yanukovych was in power? Hmm, what ELSE happened in 2014? Oh yes! The people of Ukraine rose up with Euromaidan and kicked Yanukovych out. Yanukovych ran to Russia and soon after that Russia invaded Crimea.

            • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
              51·
              6 months ago

              Personally if I was a country, not getting a hundred thousand of my own people killed and million displaced while their survivors are immiserated would be a pretty high priority.

              We were talking about Ukraine before, but since you switched to talking about Russia we appear to agree at the huge mistakes Putin is making by killing so many Russians and becoming a vassal state of China.