• jackmarxist [any]@hexbear.net
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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.

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    [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.

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    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.

  • damnatum_seditiosus [any]@hexbear.net
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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.