• FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    The recruitment crisis could be solved, she added, if Ukraine’s allies sent their own troops. If they did not, and Kyiv fell, Vladimir Putin would keep going. She said: “As I see it, it is Europe’s armies that are absent without leave. They don’t understand – or don’t want to understand – that this is their war too.”

    ukkkraine : Pwease help us start World War 3

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      Ukranian to the world: Hey, if you want to fight a war on our country you really should be sending your own people to fight in it. We’re… uhhhh… running out of people.

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      They don’t understand … that this is their war too

      It’s adorable when the pawns of imperialism think they have insight into what’s going on and can dictate terms

      The West is abundantly aware and has been abundantly clear that this isn’t their war. They don’t give a fuck what the outcome is provided Russia gets a black eye during it

      The fact that Ukraine still thinks it’s going to have the West come charging in to defeat Russia is almost sad, tbh

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      The most obvious mainstream facet of the “Orcs” narrative is this unquestioned assumption that once the Ukrainian coup government is defeated, the Uruk-Hai Russian horde will sweep forward like hungry locusts and devour the World of Men Europe.

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        This is sadly a trope that is inherit in modern thought. From the Golden Horde allegedly only being stopped from conquering europe by a single death, to the tsar to the soviets to the modern russian state & china.

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        Like, if it was conquest he was after, why wouldn’t he just immediately blast Ukraine down to bedrock?

        Russia still has ballistic missiles and bomber planes

        Could have just turned Kiev into a smoking crater in the first few days if he wanted

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          And they act like Russia is going to be in Lisbon by the end of the year but they also act like Russia is both crawling towards Kiev and suffering heavy losses to get that far.

          I doubt Russia could keep going into Western Europe even if they wanted to do it.