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Real good sign your side is winning when you're conscripting a 39yo, especially someone who is arguably way more valuable left helping run your propaganda war on reddit-logo zelensky-pain

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[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 94 points 1 year ago

said his role has helped him prepare for being in on the frontline

What's he going to do, ban Russia from Ukraine? Delete incoming artillery fire?

This is is going to be the rudest awakening since our vets discovered Russia isn't sending unarmed civilians.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 88 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Demoted from propaganda poster to cannon fodder stalin-joking

Literally the plot of edge of tomorrow

[–] Yllych@hexbear.net 85 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Select hits from his profile

spoiler

Well current government of russian federation is trying to whitewash the facts and alter history history as always. I mean they even have their own name for the war - The “great patriotic war” to hide the fact they’ve been allies with Hitler between 1939 and 1941, so I think it’s quite important to remind them of that. Just look at r/pikabu dweebs downvoting away at a simple historical truth.

And

There are documented instances of soviet squads dressed as Ukrainian freedom fighters during WWII committing warcrimes against civilian population, Poles and Jews to rob them of support from the populace. Good thing about these kind of affairs is that if they get captured they don't get the benefits of Geneva convention.

Please replace the relatively sane soldiers with these guys

[–] amphibian@hexbear.net 85 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

hide the fact they’ve been allies with Hitler between 1939 and 1941

I forgot people actually believed shit like this wtf

[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile Ukrainian Father of the Nation was not only allied to the Nazis, he helped them with the Holocaust and got sent to a concentration camp as a reward.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

They even use it to say that the Nazis were socialist, actually

[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This guy was a r/neoliberal nerd lmao. Let him rot.

[–] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

Incoming post about how “triage is an example of means testing working” as he bleeds out with an expectant tag.

[–] nasezero@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now I regret not posting this to c/the_dunk_tank

[–] HexBroke@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Probably more opportunities in future with this guy

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 74 points 1 year ago

My role as a Hexbear moderator is preparing me for the front lines (of a protracted peoples war)

[–] nurjahreszeiten@hexbear.net 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hilarious, hope he gets droned, cause thats what they think is extremely funny when it happens to russians who-must-go

[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably will. Russia also has a huge drone warfare operation. They're just not publicized as much as Ukrainian ones.

[–] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

Because Ukrainians use bomb dropping drones so they can post it online, Russia used fpv drones that just fly towards you and kill you.

[–] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 57 points 1 year ago

Have fun on the front line bozo! Maybe you should've used your role as a mod to push for peace?

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 57 points 1 year ago

99% chance this bozo posts to reddit and gets blown up.

[–] Commiejones@hexbear.net 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm I bad for wanting to not die? I really would like if he went and saw the front for a few days before being wounded and shipped home so that he can go back to posting and change the narrative to "we need to surrender" (while having to shit in a bag for the rest of his life).

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

If he did that, he would be disappeared by the Ukrainian security services like all the previous critics of Fuhrer Zelensky.

[–] coolusername@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He's no different than Nazi propagandists. He should die. His actions have very likely caused others to die as well. /r/volunteersforukraine

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 52 points 1 year ago

"We did it, reddit!"

[–] Bloobish@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago

Have fun getting sacrificed for the good of the western capitalist death cult

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago

He’s about to realize what happens when you find out all that “objective journalism” you’ve been posting is actually massive cope

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago

May he be buried with snoos and KFC.

[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago
[–] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

This is unironically what should happen to some of these war watchers

[–] DEAD_YUCKY@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

HOW LONG WILL HE LAST?

KEYBOARD WARRIOR TRAINING, DOES IT PREPARE YOU FOR THE REAL THING?

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ukraine has recently stepped up its efforts to replenish soldiers. It lowered the conscription age from 27 to 25

They aren't drafting people under 25?? Most serious war effort

Ukraine's parliament also passed a bill earlier this month that would allow the country's military to recruit prisoners to fight.

"In bad country..."

In August, Zelenskyy fired all of Ukraine's military recruitment chiefs after an investigation revealed they were accepting up to $10,000 in bribes to help people avoid being drafted.

I'm sure there's some level of corruption in any conscription process, but this seems unusual.

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

Ukraine's parliament also passed a bill earlier this month that would allow the country's military to recruit prisoners to fight.

I remember near the begining of the war, Redditors were trying to mock Wagner for all being recruited from prisoners.

[–] itappearsthat@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The 25+ conscription age is unusual. Isn't it the opposite in most places? You want your soldiers young, dumb, and full of cum as the saying goes. If I'd been conscripted in my early 20s I'd probably have gone along with it as I was an uncritical idiot. It was only after age 25 that I would have probably abandoned my life and gtfo instead of dying in a ditch for some nationalist myth.

[–] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The average age of a us infantryman in ww2 was 26 I believe. In Vietnam it was 19 and was kinda noted for being too young. Also in Napoleons grand army the conscription age was 20-25 so long as you weren’t married. Then when you consider special forces guys are all pretty much early to mid 30’s you kinda realize 18-20 year olds in the military are pretty much cannon fodder. A military needs “young” but capable (read life experience) to actually be effective. For example Russia recently upped their minimum age to 21 for that reason pretty much. Especially now that we are definitely in an age where technology is playing a major role in combat.

[–] waluigiblunts@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

@420blazeit69@hexbear.net

Ukraine does not have that many men between 18 and 25.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ukraine_population_pyramid_2024_UN.png

Look at the gigantic dip near the bottom.

Conscripting men between 18 and 25 would not provide many men, while completely destroying that already tiny generation.

[–] Leon_Frotsky@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

wow i wonder what could have happened around the late 80s and early 90s to cause the birth rate to massively decrease as social stability was upended thonk

[–] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Why save lives when you could fruitlessly fight for land?

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Interesting. I wonder if they thought that through -- "this war will destroy a generation" has rarely stopped countries from fighting wars.

[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago
[–] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

easiest way to end all wars is to send those that call for it..

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

Unlimited conscription on the Redditors.

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sokalskii spent a long time thinking about the country's conscription process, which has been plagued by corruption. He said he believes it would work better as a lottery where "everybody has to suffer equally" — with the option to trade with a family member or friend willing to take your place.

In North Soviet China, you can be drafted to fight neighboring nations based on lottery, though you have the option of throwing someone else under the bus as well to save yourself.

[–] TeddyKila@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just like in my Hunger Gamerinos! so-true

[–] ksynwa_from_lemmygrad@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A reddtior gave him this advice in his AMA

keep shopping bags or trash bags…line your helmet with it for a mobile latrine

I don't understand this. Is he talking about shitting in the helmet?

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

think it's just a place to stash the bags until use

EDIT: nope, after thinking about it more I think you are right, the bag is stretched over the helmet as a frame and you squat over it.

[–] coolusername@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This guy whitewashed Naziism and COUNTLESS war crimes in Ukraine, as well as the reasons this war is happening in the first place. I have no sympathy for him.

[–] StalinStan@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I am not even mad. If he is willing to die on that hill

[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Just came back to this post to see what this dork was up to, and the guy is working with the Hospitallers, which is a group working under the Ukraine's Right Sector.