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
      191·
      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.

      • Murvel@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 year ago

        Not really. You just use the word ‘racist’ as a general insult to people who disagree with you. I don’t really take it as an offense since it means nothing in that context, but using the word ‘racist’ ignoring its actual meaning is problematic.

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        241·
        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
      42·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, why not let Hitler Putler occupy us?

      I mean: how bad can it be?

      /s

          • autismdragon [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
            71·
            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
              11·
              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.

                • erik@lemmy.ml
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  Intent matters more, just because ruzzians[1] are inept doesn’t make it less punishable.

                  [1]:happy now that I have narrowed it down to only those who actively support it instead of the vast majority who just passively support it?