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submitted 3 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

Summary

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered 160,000 more Russians aged 18–30 be drafted from April 1 to July 15, amid U.S.-brokered ceasefire talks.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned the Kremlin is preparing a major offensive in Sumy, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia, accusing Russia of stalling negotiations to gain territorial leverage.

Over 100,000 Russian soldiers are confirmed dead. Ukraine reported 46,000 dead and 380,000 wounded.

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[-] hikuro93@lemmy.ca 87 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Where's Trump and his "young, brave men"? You know, that speech. The one aimed at Zelensky stating he should just stop the war and stop being desperate by conscripting more people for the defense effort?

Eh, must have left it in the same place he left the "Zelensky is a dictator" comment after he was asked if Putin was also a dictator.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

I mean, it's a fucking pointless, blood drenched meat grinder on both fronts. Like some kind of WW1 reenactment with the safeties turned off.

You don't need to be a fan of either side to want this nightmare to end. But since the people in charge have no real skin in the game (because they're sociopaths who are more than happy to see these populations sacrificed to their vainglory) the killing simply will not end.

[-] hikuro93@lemmy.ca 56 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If that simplistic and dismissive view is your take on the whole Ukraine defending their sovereignty against a foreign invader...

Then Doktor Jidanbo prescribes you with less Fox News consumption - as 9/10 dentists say it clouds judgement.

Stopping the 'meat grinder' is actually very simple. All that needs to happen is for Russia to stop attacking Ukraine and leave Ukrainian soil. All Russia needs to do is wanting to actually end it, which is the part all the greedy vultures wanting to carve up Ukraine conveniently leave out.

I rather die a proud fighter who fought my oppressors than live in misery while they gleefully take what's mine, and my loved ones. Capitulating to bullies only leads to more bloodshed. Standing up to them and making them regret their barbaric ways is how you actually stop them.

Take that any way you want, as that's all I'm gonna say.

[-] Doesnotexist@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

I’ve had a relevant quote in my head about this for a long time: “if Russia put down their guns, there would be peace. If Ukraine put down their guns, there would be no Ukraine”

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[-] torrentialgrain@lemm.ee 10 points 3 months ago

Ukraine is fighting an existential defensive war to save their country. Their soldiers fight to defend their loved ones and families.

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[-] index@sh.itjust.works 66 points 3 months ago

Politicians never fight their wars. Conscription is slavery.

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[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 64 points 3 months ago

Ukraine is Russia’s Vietnam.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 46 points 3 months ago
[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 60 points 3 months ago

Afghanistan is Russia’s Afghanistan.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 17 points 3 months ago

glad you picked that up haha

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[-] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago

Afghanistan is everyone’s Afghanistan 😂

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[-] Podunk@lemmy.world 42 points 3 months ago

Rest in peace you poor bastards. Forced to fight a rich mans war... for nothing.

[-] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 13 points 3 months ago

Yep so many will due horribly because of their awful dictator

[-] peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world 41 points 3 months ago

How many will be oligarchs sons?

[-] venusaur@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago
[-] chrizzly@feddit.org 10 points 3 months ago

My first thought was CCR - Fortunate son

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[-] random_character_a@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

Or even any from large cities?

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 30 points 3 months ago

Russia isn't going to have any young men left.

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[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

Vlad should call his MAGA supporters to join his cause and it will fulfill their need for violence.

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago

Also they would take heavy casualties. Use them as pure cannon fodder.

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

Are they going to be equipped like the Russian soldiers in late WWII? One soldier gets a rifle, the other gets five bullets, and both get helmets the thickness of tin cans.

[-] Apollo42@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Russian soldiers in late WW2 were typically very well equipped, as were most soldiers by that stage in the war (even German soldiers were pretty decently equipped late war, though mostly due to having almost no soldiers left to equip).

Late summer 1941 and even at points during Stalingrad, sure there were definitely times when soviet soldiers were being thrown into battle massively underequipped, but this was the exception rather than the rule.

By 1944 (even by 1943) the Red Army was more mechanised than the Wehrmacht and was better at Blitzkrieg than the Wehr ever were.

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[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

That is ww1. Not world war 2. The whole 'wait for your comrade to die and take his weapons' did not happen during ww2. It did happen in ww1.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago
[-] Swuden@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

I can hear this image.

Conscript reporting.

[-] lietuva@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

more fertilizer for the ukrainian soil

[-] Ksin@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

The last round of conscription was meet with uncharacteristically loud pushback from the russian public so pushing ahead with even more is interesting. Is the kremlin that confident in the effect of it's propaganda? or is it just that desperate?

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[-] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

I have a friend who insists he can defeat any animal in a fight as long as he has enough size advantage and lay on the animal and pin it down. He has apparently never seen a cat, much less a chimp.

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[-] random_character_a@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Oh, look. Russian "brain drain" heading to Russias southern borders.

[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

More like blood drain, their brains are probably in atrophy.

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[-] Monstrosity@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago

Die, you fuck.

[-] Denixen@feddit.nu 9 points 3 months ago

Let's just imagine what it would look like if Europe mobilized and armed 160,000 soldiers. The fact that it sees undoable for most tells us how badly situated we are...

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[-] GrassCat@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

on the bright side the Russian meatgrinder companies should see increased sales

[-] crazyhotpasta@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago

Good. More russians in the meatgrinder equals weaker russia.

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