I wonder if in retrospect this will be considered “the straw that broke the camel’s back”?

Putting aside the jokes about “they don’t gain ground fast enough therefore I win”, Zelensky’s strategy of fighting with a slave army of kidnapped men was and still is quite sucessful - Russia liberates no more than tens of km2 a day.
But now, for whatever reason, he lets a good chunk of potential cannon fodder leave. Eventually running out of cannon fodder was always a ticking time bomb, and now it’s even worse…

You’ve got your armies mixed up there.

Ah right, thanks for pointing out my mistake!
When talking about army of kidnapped slaves I of course meant the one from the country where busification (act of violently kidnapping someone to send them to the meatgrinder, obviously against their will) has become “the word of 2024” according to a dictionary organization from that same country.
Would you be so kind to help me to identify this country, pretty please?

Russia. They conscripted. They also ran out of them so had to empty prisons and use them. And when that wasn’t enough, conscripted again. And also enlist from overseas, offering lavish pay to Africans and Pakistanis et al for engineering and analytics jobs in the army but were actually sent to the front lines (so they’d die and not have to continue paying them).

A marked difference from conscription in defence of the homeland wouldn’t you say?

Don’t get discouraged, few lemmy instances are just ripe with pro-Russian scum. It’s important to counter their pro-Russian propaganda with pro-Ukraine.

(It is also true that Ukraine detains young men who are doding the draft)

Two things can indeed be true.

When your country is under invasion and you have a legally mandated conscription … of course people will be scared and try to evade it.

But they try and hand wave over the fact that Russia also does it and much worse, especially when they don’t need to because they’re fighting an offensive war (badly).

America had the draft and so did Britain. Was that decried as abhorrent?

Two things can indeed be true. Like Russia invading Ukraine and Russia defending itself from NATO expansion in the bigger picture.

Or like the fact that Ukrainian people are the biggest victim of this war and Ukrainian government is a Yankee proxy that caused this war.

Ah the NATO expansion argument.

And yea Ukrainians are suffering, from Russia, who didn’t need to invade and genocide them.

Ifs, buts and what about

Genocide lmao. Y’all need to shut the fuck up with that.

Despite Ukraine’s best efforts, civilian casualties in this war have been remarkably low compared to other conflicts and ESPECIALLY compared to any conflict the US has been involved in so do shut up and unlutch those pearls if you’d be so kind.

Civilian casualties have been low 😆y’all need to shut the fuck up with that.

Do you think flattened villages, towns, cities in the first year had no casualties? That the massive missile and drone attacks each night yield no deaths? I mean they’re low now, almost four years in and laughably ineffective but some do get through and kill random civilians.