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'Busification' - forced conscription - is the tip of the iceberg for Ukraine's military crisis
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Serious question, how are liberals coping with this? There's been more articles coming out about it recently. I'm wondering if they're bloodthirsty enough to call these people cowards.
or it's ruzzian [sic] propaganda
simple, they just ignore this and pretend it's not happening
the same way they were coping 3 years ago when I sent them videos of forced conscription: by saying russia does whatever ukraine does, but worse.
Just ask them for their source
^1^It is Known
They ignore it and pretend it isn't happening. They call it Russian propaganda. They say the videos were actually taken in Russia. They say the videos are AI. They say it's only one or two isolated incidents. Or they just straight up justify it saying Ukrainians have a duty to defend their "freedom and democracy". Take your pick.
Ukrainian politicians and the nationalists in the Ukrainian media definitely do. They go on Ukrainian TV and just openly say that everyone who doesn't serve should have no rights as a citizen. In Europe they are trying very hard to get all male Ukrainian refugees to go back to Ukraine so they can be conscripted. Right now they are just scaling back on the money they give to refugees, but soon enough it may be deportations.
Ironically these deportations won't be done by the right wing (who only want to deport non-white people) but by liberals who are fanatically obsessed with fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian.
They just ignore it or say "it's worse in Russia therefore it resets" (and proceed to ignore it), or say that Russia is so evil that everything is justified to stop them (and proceed to ignore it).