Very true. And if you stop and think about it, 2033's only 10 years away. Maybe Metro.co.uk could post a followup to this story then. Just for that "Yo dawg, I herd u like 2033" meme potential.

[–] DarkGamer@kbin.social 68 points 2 years ago

The brain drain and pointless bloody war will continue until morale improves.

[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago

I'm sure he wasn't planning on returning anyway.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 33 points 2 years ago

Glad he's okay and not in Russia anymore. Makes playing his games a lot more enjoyable.

He's a great storyteller

[–] vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Great books by the way!

[–] godless@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

2033, yes.

2034 felt disjointed to a point I wasn't even sure it was written by the same person. Gave up reading eventually, about 1/3 in.

[–] docwriter@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 2 years ago

I had the exact same experience. I love 2033, but I couldn't finish 2034.

[+] Blursty@lemmygrad.ml -45 points 2 years ago (1 children)

and the pretexts under which it [the invasion of Ukraine] was started look more and more insignificant and false.’

Really? In what way? More and more people are learning about the origins of the war all the time.

[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

The origin of this war is that Putin wants to restore the Soviet Union and thought Ukraine is easy prey, because of revolutionary forces within Ukraine and because his collaborators lied to him. They then continued to invade with limited success, thanks to low morale, aged tactics and corruption in their badly equipped military. Now Russians die in the thousands not because of Ukraine, but because of him.

[–] cooljacob204@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

No point in feeding the troll. Look at his profile, it's a either a Russian in denial or an extreme case of tankie.

[–] BeegYoshi@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

pretty much everyone from lemmygrad and hexbear dismiss anything from any western outlet as propaganda while uncritically spouting insanity from the putin regime or the ccp.

i saw someone unironically posting about "democratic dictatorship" yesterday. good times

[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Have you seen the profile of that guy? I fear he's dead serious.