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While there are reports of people being sold into military slavery or fooled to sign the contract, majority are there voluntarily - whether following an ideology, desire to avoid prison or simply money.

As sad as it is that people have to make those choices, they still made them and given how pootin has weaponised political apathy, they also don't care about their actions until they meet a drone.

As I'm slowly evolving my own flavour of spec driven development, I'm starting to think about the generated code as a secondary artefact where main quality criteria is that it's doing what it needs to and it's covered with tests.

I guess my current analogy is that I don't care about how readable or dry is the assembly code generated by compiler.

I have the specifications and the working code with tests. I can always regenerate it if I need to.

But. I still read the produced code, steer the design and correct the obvious blunders. No vibes.

Ah, that's a relief, I was afraid it was me in the picture...

Nah, my original message was a quick braindump full of shortcuts. I'm glad you gave me the opportunity to formulate it orderly.

Bro. I have Ukrainian roots and I'm very confused about the Ukrainian stuff :)

All I know about Finland is that Soviets attacked it and, essentially, lost, so I guess Finland didn't have much choice - it was the known evil of the Stalin and the who-knows-what with the Germans that weren't even their neighbours.

I'm sure there were actual Nazis both in Finland and Ukraine, but I don't see how Finland could have stayed independent and neutral in that situation.

But again, I know way too little about those parts.

so first things first. pogroms and volyn were terrible and seems like Ukraine is working through that.

the point i'm making here is that the binary "worked with nazis" leads nowhere, and we have to bring things into the historical perspective.

today we have the luxury of retrospective and know what fascism is and its dangers. which, ironically, doesn't seem to stop us from sliding into it.

things were very different and slightly less binary in 1941. after all, the German American Bund (aka First US Nazi party) was dismantled only in December 1941. to make matters worse, germany, france and poland were all researching on the "re-settling" of jews to madagascar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_Plan

what makes a difference for me is that while the main nazis (germans, italians, japanese and soviets) were all about "we are better, let's enslave the neighbor monkeys", ukrainian nationalists in that time were about fighting against occupation. polish, soviet, nazi and then again soviet. in that order.

they lost, and as usual with history, it's written by the winners but the fact that (the modern nazi) ruzzia appears to have inherited fear of bandera from the (fairly nazi) soviet union, tells me that it's worth looking at him not only from the ruzzian perspective.

I'm afraid you are misinformed. Stalin and Hitler were Nazi mass murderers and best buddies. Bandera, while not an angel, was imprisoned by Hitler and murdered by Stalin.

"Bandera was a nazi" was soviet and now ruzzian line, this statement is neither true nor false, but repeating it helps spreading ruzzian propaganda.

This is why the military came up with the idea of force multiplication. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_multiplication

In short, it's something you can give a soldier or a weapon so that they become more effective. A gun in the knife fight is one example.

Ruzzian war doctrine, if I understand it correctly, was "shoot artillery until the area is flat, advance with meat". So artillery is their force multiplier and matching and countering that is essential.

Add to that better training, cross-unit communication and cohesion, better weapons and you don't need to match soldier per soldier. Especially if you are in defence - the attacking side usually takes greater losses.

So while staffing is a major issue for Ukraine, luckily it doesn't automatically translate into their loss.

Never been to Canada. Must be rubbing off :)

Ah, I see, you're referring to those "good russians" some people keep mentioning.

Guys, I really enjoyed your conversation. Deep, insightful and respectful. Given a chance, I'll buy you a beer.

Thank you for this