Current Affairs Ukraine

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I think you are a swell guy and all that, Martin, but my god you need to get over your insecurity! You must be a nightmare to go for a bevvie with. :(
I'm being sarcastic in the preceding post, but the reality is that authoritarian leaders have been getting rid of political dissidents by using them as cannon fodder for millennia.
 
I'm being sarcastic in the preceding post, but the reality is that authoritarian leaders have been getting rid of political dissidents by using them as cannon fodder for millennia.
Well keeping the sarcasm going maybe it'd be a brilliant thing if Vlad did just start handing guns out to the citizens of earmarked for fighting his war. It would certainly enthuse the news editors.
 
All this mobilization calls, so fecked up. I come from military family (mixed Croat/Serb descent) that for centuries had their family members mobilized into Imperial Habsburg-Austrian armies to fight in their endless wars.

I do wonder how those people felt fighting, killing and dying for their foreign Emperor and for causes they probably didn't believe it.

"Glory of Austria and the Empire" as the propaganda was saying (like that meant anything to Croat, Czech, Pole, Italian, Slovene etc..... dying for not their cause)

Same stuff now in Russia
 
Germany now offering a home for any and all Russian deserters/draft dodgers.

Thought about this the other day - NATO should announce that all Russians who want no part in Putin’s war are welcome to help rebuild Ukraine. Offer them a decent wage (gotta be cheaper than launching loads of Javelins and NLAW’s at them).

It will also have the effect of winding Putin rar up.
 
Germany now offering a home for any and all Russian deserters/draft dodgers.

Thought about this the other day - NATO should announce that all Russians who want no part in Putin’s war are welcome to help rebuild Ukraine. Offer them a decent wage (gotta be cheaper than launching loads of Javelins and NLAW’s at them).

It will also have the effect of winding Putin rar up.
They could close borders, no? I believe that was what Ukraine done at the start of the war (for all males of certain age).
 
They could close borders, no? I believe that was what Ukraine done at the start of the war (for all males of certain age).
It's probably what they will do.

If I was in the age range of mobilisation I'd scram too. Sit it out until it sorts itself out either way.

When are the referendums supposed to be happening?
 
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