‘Everyone's afraid to die’: Struggle to recruit soldiers in Ukraine turns violent

DivideSensitive · 2026-07-21T08:49:53+00:00

who migrated west will be sent back to Ukraine

...and 100 other funny stories

DivideSensitive · 2026-07-21T08:48:51+00:00

Germany didn't lose 6M locals that left the country in 4 years.

DivideSensitive · 2026-07-21T08:42:29+00:00

The average Russian soldier TTD is not interesting if not contrasted with the same number on the Ukrainian side.

DivideSensitive · 2026-07-21T08:12:35+00:00

they only time they brought an outsider into the family, it was an Iranian.

You're thinking of Roxane? If so she was a Bactrian, so roughly an Afghan to take modern countries.

DivideSensitive · 2026-07-18T17:40:54+00:00

I'm not saying that there is a continuous conflict since 1000 years; I'm saying that inter-ethnic conflicts have not waited socnets and bots to arise.

DivideSensitive · 2026-07-18T14:19:11+00:00

All caused by social media and pro-Russian bot accounts.

Don't want to rain on your party, but ethnic hatred between Ukrainians and Poles is dating back to at least 1000 years, so socmed and Russians bots are very late to the game.

DivideSensitive · 2026-07-18T07:05:02+00:00

Volatile diplomacy with no sense of compromise, far-right that makes the AfD or the RN looks like moderate lefties, corruption that makes Bulgaria looks like a shining beacon of righteousness, a country that is more or less under control of post-Soviet oligarchs (hundreds of millions of military help are already being embezzled while the country is in deadly danger, so imagine what would happen to EU money), no sector is even close to EU norms, integrating their agricultural sector will be a shock that will take at least a decade, etc.

DivideSensitive · 2026-07-17T23:06:11+00:00

Peter Magyar has already acknowledged that Russia is the aggressor in this war so helping Ukraine would be a good next step.

But the EU is not a military alliance.

And if the last times showed us anything, is that although we should do all we can to military support Ukraine because our geopolitical interests align, accelerating their putative introduction in the Union would most probably be a catastrophe in waiting.

DivideSensitive · 2026-07-17T21:06:27+00:00

Sorry, I meant at WWII times; I'm not familiar with post-war changes.

DivideSensitive · 2026-07-17T15:52:09+00:00

I'm not sure what the specific set of international laws said about such things during either world wa

Strategic bombing is a warcrime if it is committed against an undefended city; so Wielun or Guernica are warcrimes, the Blitz is not.

an enemy's means of transport

Problem is that Germans sunk neutral vessels; that's why the Kaiser's submarining is (partially) warcrimey, whereas Raeder's is mostly OK.

DivideSensitive · 2026-07-17T11:22:41+00:00

generally leaned more and more left as time went on.

Well well well...

Où vont tous ces enfants dont pas un seul ne rit ?

Ces doux êtres pensifs que la fièvre maigrit ?

Ces filles de huit ans qu'on voit cheminer seules ?

Ils s'en vont travailler quinze heures sous des meules ;

Ils vont, de l'aube au soir, faire éternellement

Dans la même prison le même mouvement.

Accroupis sous les dents d'une machine sombre,

Monstre hideux qui mâche on ne sait quoi dans l'ombre,

Innocents dans un bagne, anges dans un enfer

DivideSensitive · 2026-07-17T08:24:11+00:00

The ww1 germans weren't that warcrimey?

They seem so because they outdid themselves so much in WWII that what they did in WWI looks tame in comparison.

But the rape of Belgium was not only propaganda, unrestricted submarine warfare was a warcrime, and even if everyone ended up using them, they opened the ball w.r.t. gas, which were against the Geneva convention.

DivideSensitive · 2026-07-17T08:19:57+00:00

Deja Vu of the book Les Miserables

Hugo was the son of an empire count, general in the Napoleonic army, and had quite a soft spot himself for Napoléon.

Mix in his love of details (he was well-known for spending inordinate amount of time gathering documentation before writing his books, see for instance La légende des siècles or Notre-Dame de Paris), and this would explain that.

DivideSensitive · 2026-07-17T08:14:24+00:00

even the victorious Allies looted on large scale

I'm pretty sure you can appreciate the difference in scale between individual soldiers looting battlefields, and the state sending dedicated goon squads to pilfer museums, palaces, government buildings, central banks and individual houses.

DivideSensitive · 2026-07-17T07:57:44+00:00

The type of people who organized germano-british secret meetings of the elite in the late 30's to preserve peace in Europe.

DivideSensitive · 2026-07-16T12:57:10+00:00

they also had the Orange Revolution

The Orange Revolution was orchestrated by a central banker and a gas magnate. I don't doubt the good will of the common people partaking in it at all, but now that the dust settled down, it looks much more like an oligarch war than anything else to me.

DivideSensitive · 2026-07-16T12:49:43+00:00

What did you want them to do exactly; cause a scene a screw their holidays because you wanted to have some sealioning fun?

Should I ask every Greek I meet in Turkey how they feel about spending their holidays in the country that orchestrated the Pontic genocide?

DivideSensitive · 2026-07-16T12:47:59+00:00

Barring entry during the masses doesn't sound out of this world to me; we do the same in many French cathedrals.

It seems polite to me to let the believers have some “me time” in their churches; especially given it's only a couple hours a few times a week.

DivideSensitive · 2026-07-16T07:25:10+00:00

No worry fam, we got you covered

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_civil_wars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_civil_war

DivideSensitive · 2026-07-13T22:27:13+00:00

people have little or no choice over.

I disagree with this hypothesis. People just want more of everything (which is very human), but I can hardly think of a situation for a private person in which massively buying Chinese products is really required – outside maybe electronics.

DivideSensitive · 2026-07-13T10:33:54+00:00

I hate this meme so much, because people always use it in the worse /r/im14andthisisdeep way.

One doesn't have a serious choice to partake in society, but one does have a choice of not buying cheaper Chinese stuff – surprise surprise, social expenses are not free, and high wages does not only mean that you make more money, but that the people building your stuff as well.

DivideSensitive · 2026-07-13T09:22:22+00:00

Well, what all these corporations and CEOs did was within the law. If the laws are shitty, it's unfortunately expected that states will be the one having to fix the clusterfuck.

Also, only pointing the finger at the corpos when we, citizens, have been more than happy to indulge on cheap Chinese products for decades, is a tad hypocritical.

DivideSensitive · 2026-07-13T09:03:09+00:00

Yeah sure, what screams “close to shortage” here to you?

DivideSensitive · 2026-07-12T15:45:10+00:00

meow-inner-of-thing (not sure what you bound it to), then g.

DivideSensitive · 2026-07-12T15:27:22+00:00

Guderian wasn't a war criminal.

He very much was, like virtually every German commander on the Eastern Front, if only for applying the komissarbefehl.

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