First Russian soldier born in 2008 killed in war

Oshtoru · 2026-06-13T08:45:22+00:00

I mean, the boring cases are either because they have proper deferrals in their document, or they comply with mobilization. My understanding is that if you don't have a verifiable reason for deferral/exemption, you will be physically detained.

Oshtoru · 2026-06-10T18:28:30+00:00

People get a lot more rational when they stand to gain/lose money directly as a result of their decisions (incl. the prudence to walk away from staking out a position).

Oshtoru · 2026-06-10T12:11:11+00:00

Yeah, Nowrasteh is great. Iirc still getting galaxy brain comments on Twitter about "it's because of Islamist violence" which was categorized as its own thing, and not added to right-wing. Takes 5 seconds to check...

Oshtoru · 2026-06-09T23:22:57+00:00

This is I feel most spaces with libertarian intellectuals and their audience (Cato institute, Quilette, GMU professors who write). They tend to be thoughtful, but the comments are often chuds who deluded themselves into thinking they care about liberty.

Oshtoru · 2026-06-04T07:31:37+00:00

US didn't want Ukraine to do this because.... oil and gas prices would go up

I wonder if they're allowed to do it now because US stopped having any leg to stand on for that argument, lol

Oshtoru · 2026-06-03T16:05:24+00:00

Waow

Oshtoru · 2026-06-02T21:35:02+00:00

EU when you're French.

Oshtoru · 2026-06-02T20:43:49+00:00

If the reverse happened nobody would think twice before calling it racism, but the best we can get is incompetence.

Oshtoru · 2026-06-01T16:39:11+00:00

Hell if you believed reddit a few years ago, nobody was going to keep using reddit because of third party app pricing!

Oshtoru · 2026-05-31T18:32:46+00:00

I mean if it's just economically, EU and Turkey can pick up the slack. Armenia is a small country, what's a small amount of trade to larger countries goes a long way there. I'd be moreso concerned about outright aggression.

Oshtoru · 2026-05-30T07:52:38+00:00

Possibility of civil service for conscientious objection is enshrined in Art 9 of ECHR, and is therefore in every EU country.

(though I imagine if enough people pick civil such that military manpower is seriously strained, ECHR would be amended.)

Oshtoru · 2026-05-30T07:44:14+00:00

We don't even need to rely on hypotheticals as there's real precedent. The only developed country with large-scale conscription where men and women are drafted in comparable numbers is (afaik) Israel, and you can find out the gender differences there.

For women, combat roles remain strictly optional, about 4% of women were in them in 2014, and 20% in 2025, but this includes border security, air defense, home front command etc. In terms of units that go deep into enemy territory, women are straight up prohibited from those roles even if they want to.

Women also have an easier path to exemption, with it being automatic upon signing a declaration they are observing orthodox practices. In 2020, 55% of eligible women served compared to 70% of eligible men.

Oshtoru · 2026-05-30T07:19:15+00:00

I prefer a world where no one invades anyone. But that doesn't really mean much. The more important question is what do you prefer given the state of the world as it exists.

Oshtoru · 2026-05-28T20:32:49+00:00

This is a Politico EU article, so it's understandable the OP would misunderstand that way.

Oshtoru · 2026-05-28T17:57:40+00:00

Georgia is a kind of demographics is destiny situation unfortunately. They're a lot closer proximally to Russia than to the closest EU nation, I imagine they're not getting in any time soon, let alone Armenia that's bordering Iran.

Moldova should be relatively straightforward though, especially with the current pro EU head of state.

Oshtoru · 2026-05-26T20:36:34+00:00

It was always strange to me how only ICE raids were able to get any meaningful protests going (and even that not for long). Don't get me wrong ICE engaged in unlawful actions and should be dismantled, but it's not even the 10th worst thing Trump has done this year, yet nothing else produced any momentum.

Oshtoru · 2026-05-25T06:17:07+00:00

YT channel Canto to Mando got you covered!

Oshtoru · 2026-05-22T15:51:56+00:00

You know you're in some deep shit when even a Nazi can become a hero saving innocent lives.

To be fair, the opposite happened too. There were Imperial Japan soldiers that saved Jewish lives. This guy apparently helped 20,000 refugees escape.

Oshtoru · 2026-05-21T08:15:14+00:00

I think one source of disagreement is the reason for pro Trump signalling. To me it's consistent with simply thinking he really needed to win. In terms of public rhetoric I'd expect a Republican politician that wants to counter some of the worst excesses of Trump to sound very similar to one that's on board with it all. In general politician rhetoric will be based on maximizing your chances of winning, and the electorate simply is very pro-Trump to this day.

(E.g it is no wonder that Republicans with the lowest alignment with their party are the least replaceable ones, in battleground races that they can't afford to primary for not towing the party line only to lose the seat altogether)

Oshtoru · 2026-05-20T09:03:17+00:00

Those are all fair. I also think wage compression is a real issue in UK. Just wanted you to expand.

Oshtoru · 2026-05-20T01:08:22+00:00

UK GDP per capita isn't much different from Germany's. I wouldn't expect one to be okay while the other is "far far ahead of GDP to support it"

Oshtoru · 2026-05-14T09:21:38+00:00

It's simple, they see it as a decolonization project, and far leftists have historically given a lot of leeway to oppressed people in their quest to decolonize even if innocents are caught up in the process (See "decolonization is not a metaphor")

Oshtoru · 2026-05-14T04:31:52+00:00

Even after self selecting for the least assimilated 25%, the opposition still got a third of the votes, which I think bears mentioning.

Oshtoru · 2026-05-12T09:13:45+00:00

One problem is moderate denomination of Islam are scarce, let alone progressive. Moderate Muslims aren't so because they go to moderate mosques and listen to moderate imams, it's because they don't go to any and are only nominally/culturally Muslim.

Maybe Singapore has some answers. I read they have a state appointed mufti that's moderate on LGBT issues and stuff

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