May Russias war machine grind to a crashing halt. My hopes are slim but behind Russias cold and strong facade they're trying to throw everything at grabbing more last-minute territories before a potential peace agreement. They need peace more than anyone as their economy isn't sustainable. They just know pressure on Ukraine is high and the population also really wants war. Thats why they think they'll get away with the land grab

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I thought that picture was a magic eye, was going to stare at it until I saw the hidden message.

Instead it's just a bunch of untrained people that will die in Ukraine, with no gun in their hands unless they grabbed one off their dead comrades.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Potemkin uniforms, I’m sure. They’re all uniformed and look the part in the image, but as they get pushed to the front they’ll get whatever hand-me-down garbage is available to the soldiers. The Russian single rifle and two bullets.

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

The Russian single rifle and two bullets.

"Thats not historically accurate, that only happened once. i swear!"

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He he he he

[+] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago (6 children)

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[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 26 points 2 days ago

Every life lost is a shame but if Russia wanted us to stop laughing at their tragedies then they could fuck off and go home.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Cool, you should join the fight or support Ukraine so we can stop laughing quicker.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I'm supporting Ukraine.

And BTW the "wHy DonT yOu Go tO thE TrEnCheS??!" is a so overused kremlin troll line I'm only 99% sure you already knew (otherwise, now you do!)

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I'm supporting Ukraine.

Ok good, I didn't demand you go to the trenches I simply pointed out it is a far more productive use of your time than arguing here about the humanity of russian soldiers while we laugh at their deaths.

Don't push a nation into having to repeatedly stop massive meatwave assaults in the largest near-peer military conflict in decades and then fixate on people making acidic comments about it.

Spins gatling gun with a smile.

Fuck them, we will kill them, as many as it takes. If we laugh while doing so, so what? This is not a war Ukrainians get up everday and choose to participate in as it is for russians.

[–] Carmakazi@piefed.social 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Rule one of this community is "sympathy for enemy combatants is prohibited" for what that's worth.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah in the first year I get it, but now people know why they enlist in the russian army.

[–] Carmakazi@piefed.social 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Many at this point didn't enlist at all, they are basically slave-soldiers pressed into service. And not just Russians.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 20 hours ago

Africans lured there? Yes. Russians? Who ever wouldn't know what they're in for? And sure, there's always someone who claims they did it "by mistake" but the vast majority know.

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 1 points 19 hours ago

Hard to have sympathy when they illegally invaded with no justification against greed and if they wanted the death tonstop all they have to do is leave.

Russia has spent what, 4 years now, trying to comvince everyone their shitty invasion was some sort of provoked two sided event but it wasn't. They are entirely the agressor against a non agressor opponent.

Then they kept poking hoping other countries would start fighting (NATO) to prove their lies about NATO agression, and that never happened either.

All they have done is make the world hate them even more and show the world their "great military might" is trash from all the corruption hollowing it out for decades.

Ukraine was a nothingburger country that some "great" country like Russia should have been able to roll through in a day or two. And Ukraine has held off Russia for four years now. Russia has shown they are a joke.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

When someone attacks you senselessly, it makes perfect sense to fight back.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Even the "nice" Russians I've met in America — who should know better than to believe Kremlin propaganda — swallow every ounce of bullshit eminating from Moscow.

I don't doubt the 90% Putin approval ratings. Most of them are true believers — until they get drafted. Then suddenly they have a conscience.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Desensitize yourself, orcs won't feel any sympathy for you while they kill you so you shouldn't feel any sympathy for them either.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Oh no how unfortunate