• Bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org
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    16 days ago

    NGL, I am quite surprised by this move.

    They have either already agreed on a peace deal behind the curtains, and the clown just tries to somehow boost his rating (I don’t believe it can possibly work…), or… idk… Voluntarily giving up your cannon fodder is super weird… The kidnapping can now only be extended to 23YOs (from current 25YOs) - could it really help? All the fascist are saying that kidnapping age should be lowered to 18 and include women as well, and we see the opposite here… Super weird move, unless a peace deal has been reached 🤷

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      16 days ago

      btw, any lib here wants to take a guess why “the last bastion of democracy with legitimate and democratic president” would want to create a law for imprisoning for up to three years people who want to flee to the “aggressor country that tries to genocide all Ukrainians” (or whatever is the current narrative)?
      What idiots would want to that, isn’t that literally suicide? And on such a mass scale that they want to create a law for that purpose? Huh.

      https://m.antikor.ua/en/articles/788045-v_ukraine_predlagajut_sahatj_na_3_goda_za_popytku_begstva_v_rossiju_ili_belarusj__nardep

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      15 days ago

      His rating is irrelevant, he can hold on to power indefinitely as long as he controls the security apparatus. Even if he allows elections which is highly unlikely, it is very easy to rig them given how nearly the entire state apparatus is under their control. So i don’t think this is why he’s doing it.

      A more likely explanation for me is that this is a way of further dialing up the pressure on the Europeans, threatening to unleash a wave of migration that the already strained societies in Europe, already on the brink of economic crisis and with their own social tensions brewing, cannot afford. It’s a form of blackmail so they continue to give him a blank check.

      He also knows that most of the forcefully mobilized, with rock bottom motivation and nearly non-existent training, are virtually useless at the front as anything but fodder to sit in trenches.

      Worse still, this is exactly the demographic that if pushed to the brink could unleash massive protests, and, if too many of them are mobilized at once, meaning faster than they can be broken and brainwashed by the prevailing Nazi culture in the army, there is also a real threat that they could start a cascade of mutinies.

      Further, there are also no jobs and no prospects for these people now which makes them even more of a powderkeg, so it is safer to unload them on the Europeans.

      His only hope is for the Europeans to put boots on the ground and send their actual militaries, because that is the only way to replenish his now all but depleted stock of real, professional soldiers. He needs to continue to find ways to drag Europe deeper and deeper into the conflict.