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[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 205 points 2 months ago (4 children)

About two weeks ago, another Penza resident reported that her 61-year-old husband, who has no teeth, suffers from hearing problems, and has a disabled arm, was summoned to the military enlistment office on Skladskaya Street. According to her, he was suffocated with a plastic bag and forced to sign a contract.

She said that her husband had previously fought in the war in 2022 and returned home after being wounded. Their son has also been mobilized.

.ml users will continue to support Russia and Putin though...

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 61 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (14 children)

I am surprised they haven't downvoted this comment yet.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago

The tankies tend to block lemmy.world.

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[–] bandanawearingbanana@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The average .ml user is even more detached from reality than Putin, Trump or any other politican.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Because theyre not on the front lines.

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[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 139 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Because sending 400 000 more people to die will just make them love him even more.

[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 80 points 2 months ago

You are misunderstanding the situation. He is afraid of the people with power, money, influence - those are not the people they will send to die in a pointless war

[–] Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Fewer folks around with access to rope!

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 25 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Ah, but more rope available per person.

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 112 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Imagine making the decision of sacrificing hundreds of thousands of additional lives to delay your own inevitable demise caused by your own astronomical fuck up.

Putin is a cowardly bitch.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 44 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Honestly it need not even be his demise. There are any number of countries he could flee to, countries without extradition treaties and willing to look the other way for any rich despot looking for a safe harbor. Some small Middle East dictatorship seems a logical choice. But even China would probably offer him refuge. Even North Korea if he's truly desperate. Hell, if he offered to end the war tomorrow, most Western countries would probably be willing to offer Putin amnesty, as painful as that would be. If the choice is between holding Putin accountable and saving another hundred thousand innocent lives, I'll let Putin go.

What he is truly afraid of is losing power. He can keep his life. He can keep at least a lot of his wealth. The one thing he can't flee the country with is his power.

In the modern world, dictators never need fear their personal survival. International pariah dictators all support each other. There's a reason Trump cozies up to despots. The dictators all realize that any of them could be deposed, and that losing power will result flight or death. They're all paranoid and afraid of losing power and their lives. So they all backstop each other and provide what assistance they can. And what even the poorest dictator can offer is protection from extradition.

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[–] kurmudgeon@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Imagine blindly following such an asshole and allowing your own fathers, sons, brothers to blindly become part of the meat grinder because you're too ignorant to fucking rise up and get rid of this dipshit.

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[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 59 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Im personally in favor of him getting Ghadaffi'd

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 46 points 2 months ago (8 children)
[–] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 30 points 2 months ago

Once upon a time, people knew what to do with authoritarian dictators.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

He can get Putined once somebody invents a sufficiently horrible meaning.

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Hung by his feet and dead body beaten by mothers of dead soldiers.

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[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 2 months ago (4 children)

The actual quote:

One source said Putin believes ending the war without capturing at least all of Donbas could threaten his survival. “They will hang me,” he reportedly told people close to him.

So this isn't him saying "I think we're gonna lose the war and I'll get hanged" it's more "if I don't completely win the war I may get hanged"

There's no indication that he thinks they're going to be defeated. I think he recognizes that at worst this will result in a pyrrhic victory and they walk away with a large chunk of Ukraine, not Ukraine defeating them and driving the Russians back out.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 17 points 2 months ago

Yeah. It does show where the political motivations are currently in the war and why it isn't going to be over any time soon. There is no politically acceptable end to the war for either side, so the war of attrition continues.

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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 48 points 2 months ago (24 children)

Dear Russians,
please get on with it.
Sincerely,
A guy who's very tired of this shit

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[–] Nurgus@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago (24 children)

Unpopular opinion: We should offer all dictators and their friends a safe retirement package.

Cornered dictators are dangerous. They will always keep escalating because the alternative isn't just their neck on the block, it's all of their friends and family too.

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 34 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Even if they do, it'll come too late.

And it won't serve any purpose. The next guy won't be much different, and everyone thinks "well, I can learn from his mistakes, I'll be smarter, it'll never happen to me", until it does.

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[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

"I fucked up and now I can't stop."

[–] GolfFoxtrotLima@sh.itjust.works 30 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I look forward to the day when Putin finally dies, I will pop a bottle of champagne if Putin dies

[–] peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Imagine if Putin and Trump dies the same day.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Would be a world holiday for centuries to come

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[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is there a GoFundMe I can contribute to?

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[–] aggelalex@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

They will hang me

As they ought to

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 24 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It's been 1.4 million casualties so far, 400k is just 6-9 months worth at this point.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Ukraine has basically eradicated Wildberries, a main distributor of components and gear used by the Russian army.

Who would have thought outsourcing critical goods distribution to Chinese dropshipping fronts would have negative consequences for your imperial wars of aggression?

It gets even worse because Putin has said that in order to protect critical infrastructure such as these distribution centers, they can request military aid to protect them, but they have to pay for the privilege and once they pay the kremlin gets to decide what to protect, where, when, and how to spend that money at its own discretion.

🤡

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not only that, but if they don't protect their businesses themselves, then the Kremlin will nationalize them and "protect" them.

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[–] itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 21 points 2 months ago

Why is he afraid? Why are these assholes who have no problem sending millions of young people to their death always afraid of the consequences?

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[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Leaders killing several hundred thousand to cover up their mistakes and crimes is pretty common these days.

So much corruption and death to preserve the child&oil economy.

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[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 months ago

Oh no!

Anyway...

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

One source said Putin believes ending the war without capturing at least all of the Donbas could threaten his survival.

Even if all of Donbas is captured, he had relegated all of Russia into irrelevance for generations to come. Russia will become a vassal to China. The future Russians will despise him for it. Putin may not personally care what people think of him, but he certainly cares what will happen to Russia's prestige.

[–] Smaile@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Your lucky if they hang you Putin.

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[–] DrStanleyGoodspeed@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 months ago

Get fucked tyrant

[–] brastak@feddit.org 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That looks like a vicious circle of authoritarianism. You suppress free media, you suppress anyone who says things you don't like. Your servants only provide you the information which won't make them punished. You end up completely detached from reality which leads your rule to fall eventually

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[–] acchariya@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I've said this before but once the families of a million dead soldiers realize that thier sons are fertilizer in Ukraine and not just on extended deployment, Putin is going to be hanged.

A large majority of the relatives inside the media bubble of Russia really are not aware of how the war is going.

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[–] ironpangolin29@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Something is coming we do not know about. 😏 The billionaire/ultra wealthy class have been erratic the past couple years, plundering all the wealth they can thinking it matters.

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[–] greggish@lemmus.org 14 points 2 months ago

I hear not attacking your neighbors does wonders for your longevity.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 2 months ago

I mean, I support Ukraine, but I certainly don't trust them to quote him accurately. Doesn't mean that he doesn't think so.

[–] Endgame@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm surprised he hasn't already gotten the Julius Caesar treatment to be frank.

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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

bold of him to say within 100 miles of a russian death window

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)
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