Ukraine sacks army recruitment chiefs in anti-graft shakeup
www.reuters.com
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy broadened his battle against graft on Friday, firing all the heads of Ukraine's regional army recruitment centres as the war with Russia enters a critical stage.
  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    4212·
    1 year ago

    “Opposing military conscription is stupid” and other hot takes from westerners that have never had to fight a war at home.

    How is it stupid to oppose Zelenskyy’s suicidal conscription polices? It makes Russia’s mobilisation/conscription look pacifist by comparison.

    • WittyProfileName2 [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      181·
      1 year ago

      If you pop into that users history, you’ll see that the interacting they’re talking about is whining at me for a couple of days because I called them a racist.

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        221·
        1 year ago

        Negotiations? It’s clear after the attempt at a “counter offensive” that Ukraine do not have the ability to gain any significant territory, and they are just throwing lives and equipment into a void of mines and trenches. And Ukraine is not going to gain the ability to break though these fortifications anytime soon, I cannot see western nations giving Ukraine the weaponry required (an air force is the main missing component needed for NATO style combined arms tactics to function).

        Unless Ukraine can find a way to convince western nations to give them the equipment required to make breakthroughs (very unlikely), they are stuck in an attrition war with Russia. And I don’t see any path to victory in an attrition war against Russia. The article we are commenting on is one of the major reasons why, they’re having to fire people just to get more conscripts. At that point, negotiation is the best possible outcome.

    • erik@lemmy.mlEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, why not let Hitler Putler occupy us?

      I mean: how bad can it be?

      /s

        • erik@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Tell me one thing Hitlers regime did that Putins regime hasn’t done one a smaller scale. I’ll start with the only thing I am not aware of Putins regime having done: medical experiments on prisoners (although I personally think “punitive psychiatry” is close enough).

          Things everyone knows:

          • baseless aggression against most neighbors; check
          • a history of genocidal warfare: check (ask Chechens)
          • their own Direlewanger Sturm Brigade made from convicts: check (Sturm Z)
          • propagandists openly agitating for genocide (burning or drowning Ukrainian kids): check (as I said I have followed both sides)
          • forced removal of children (also falls under genocide): check
          • denying people to speak their own language and punishing them for it (also falls under genocide): check
          • terror bombing cities with no military value like Germans during the blitz: check
          • breaking agreements (like the Budapest Memorandum): check
          • killing prisoners en masse: check (although thankfully Putler doesn’t have the logistical evil geniuses from Endlösung working for him)
          • razing cities to the ground like Warszaw and preventing the population from fleeing: check (see Mariupol)

          I even have two more that I am not aware of the Nazis doing:

          • blatantly breaking their own cease fires to shell agreed upon evacuation corridors for both civilians and unarmed military personnel
          • openly arguing for and taking practical steps to use hunger in the third world for their own political advantage.

          I hope this should be enough to convince everyone except for the dumbest of the dumbest that Russians are almost just like (thankfully) dumb Nazis with less stylish uniforms.

          • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
            21·
            1 year ago

            Tell me one thing Hitlers regime did that Putins regime hasn’t done

            The Holocaust.

            Russians are almost just like (thankfully) dumb

            Generalizing Russians and instead of Putin’s regime AND calling them stupid. Not racist at all.

            • erik@lemmy.mlEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              So easy to beat someone when you leave out half the sentence:

              I wrote “Tell me one thing Hitlers regime did that Putins regime hasn’t done on a smaller scale”.

              And yes, Putin hasn’t done the holocaust, because they thankfully aren’t well enough organized to do that.

              The rhetoric is there as I already mentioned. The smaller scale “disappearances” of civilians Nacht und Nebel style and experiments on larger scale exterminations like Olevnika are there.

              Word plays won’t get you anywhere.

              And if it it racist to point out that Putins regime is evil but thankfully dumb then so be it.

              Someone would probably tried to arrest me for hate speak against the nazis too.

              • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                And if it it racist to point out that Putins regime

                You didn’t say Putin’s regime, you said Russians. Look who’s leaving shit out now?

                And idk how to tell you this but scale matters.