Ukraine is an empire? US hegemony excuses invading your neighbors?
There are presently two “empires” bleeding themselves dry in wars of choice versus smaller, heavilly-industrialized countries, either with many allies, natural-fortifications, or the ability to choke-off resources the world depends on. Countries which no sane power would violate like-so.
Neither Empire doing any invading is Ukraine.
Imagine pretending even a country being invaded should never institute a draft, you know, ten years after encouraging women, the young and infirm to leave your country for their safety in the face of the invading force.
Imagine invading your neighbors and getting so many of your own killed that you must trick and kidnap foreigners, plus your own disabled, young and elderly, to keep your attrition-machine going.
Getting told you’ll be flying drones is far different from being told you’ll be doing a civilian job in Moscow. The US Marines were turning would-be drone pilots into Riflemen over 25 years ago, and no-one batted an eye.
Knowingly signing-up to kill people has never been a safe affair, nor should it be.
Propaganda? As long as there’s battlefields to go get killed-on, idiots like myself will jump at the chance.
There’s getting decieved into dying for the side that’s trying to win by attrition, versus getting upset because the side some not-so-professionals choose still needs cooks, and they’re too stupid to turn their smart-phones off in a combat zone.
Idiots getting themselves and some Ukrainian-soldiers killed does not make Ukraine accepting foreign soldiers who too-often turn out to just plain suck equivalent to Russia bait-and-switching “civilian jobs in Moscow” for front-line roles.
That’s great. My problem is TRICKING people into cannon-fodder roles, not people almost exactly-like myself doing incredibly-stupid shit for money and lulz.
Were they TRICKED? The UN is the one with a problem with mercenaries.
I’m over here saying the stupidest thing South Africa ever did was caving to International pressure, making most of the world’s professional mercenaries stateless overnight, like no-one could see Blackrock/Palantir coming, or like somehow Apartheid couldn’t end without giving the US even more plausible deniability to work with.
As a woman, she could just take her money and leave, and arguably should, for her safety. Every moment she stays to aide her country-men is a favor, full-stop.
Call me when the Ukrainians start tricking foreigners into front-line slave/cannon-fodder roles like Russia does. I’ll wait.
EDIT: Bolding. I’m shaking in my boots over all the Putin fans and easilly-distracted rubes this comment’s offended.
I’m not sure I even know any Trumpers who wouldn’t just join-up with the Canadians on day-one. Its bizare the juicy tea these commenters are convinced they’ve found in a nothing-burger.
Orange man couldn’t even rally the people around invading a land with all-of 56,000 people, and anyone believes he can drag even the most ignorant USians into Canada? Half of any would-be “invasion force” would be shot in the back before they reached the border. THAT’S how AMERICAN or even “real” this idea is.
Keep saying that as-if its true. Maybe Putin will send you a cookie.