Being told this is fairly reliable for info on the situation in Ukraine. let me know if it isn’t. https://liveuamap.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine#/media/File:2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine.svg

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]M
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    3 years ago

    I disagree with him arming civilians and stopping them from fleeing, but at the same time that’s a pretty rational thing to do if you believe youre in a total war, so idk.

    Except it's not a total war though. You would have to be incompetent to the point that being removed from power would the objectively best course of action to consider press-ganging civilians with zero combat training to fight in a modern war a rational thing to do, and to actually do it

    • hwoarang [any]
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      3 years ago

      I think and hope that the pressganging of civilians was almost entirely a front, like a 'look how serious we are' move. I don't expect them to fight in any serious way. could well be wrong.

        • Vncredleader [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          This.

          If it is a front, it is a fucking horrible one which can only break moral and risk getting civilians labeled as targets. If you are losing and decide to lie for dick measuring, you are not responding to the threat but just saving face.

          • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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            3 years ago

            I agree. If the official government line is that you're arming civilians to fight an urban war, that's a good way to get your civilian population shot at and asked questions later, or for the formal enemy armed forces to pull-off a good ol' Obama drone strike where they kinda can get away with it because the line between combatants and civilian population is blurred.