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‘Number of our deserters is too high’: Ukrainians flee fight against Russia

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[–] hamid@crazypeople.online 6 points 23 hours ago

White people white peopling

[–] Twongo@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 day ago (4 children)

i love reading the comments on posts like these :3

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

What's with all the "cope" comments?

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago

I'm shocked by how many people genuinely don't understand the difference between is and ought

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 day ago

Same, all the impotent hostility of a wasp hive in a hydraulic press

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[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 day ago

He said he chose to desert after realising how perfunctory and ineffective his training was for real combat, and that he would inevitably become a front-line stormtrooper with no chances of survival.

“There’s zero training. They don’t care that I won’t survive the very first attack,” Tymofey said, referring to the drill sergeants who were training him in April after police rounded him up in central Kyiv.

He claimed that his trainers were mostly preoccupied with preventing desertions from the centre, which was surrounded by a 3-metre (9.8 ft) high concrete wall covered with barbed wire.

Warhammer 40K is not an instruction manual, guys

[–] CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago

People don't want to die in a ditch for the interests of some dudes that sit in comfortable chairs and just watch? Those are worldolds

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