Ukrainian Men Desperate to Escape War Are Drowning as They Flee
Ukrainian Men Desperate to Escape War Are Drowning as They Flee
They died like human beings, doing something for themselves, instead of dying like pigs for someone else's money.
It's horrifying when you realize a modern day country has legit thrown out an entire generation of their youth to the wolves to be eaten or die as they flee at the behest of western capital, freakin' WWI all over again with empty towns that no one is coming to return to.
Peace with no occupation would be ideal.
For two years the dominant propaganda has been : Russia is losing.
Suddenly, we are expected to believe this?
? How is that even related? Wether russia wins or loses, a lot of people (both in ukraine and in russia) dont want to participate in a war, so will try to fuck off to somewhere else.
This is what people like @poVoq@slrpnk.net are cheering on.
Ita crazy how most every post I come across expecting to see people fighting underneath it is posted by this person. It seems they're only here to cause unrest.
If you prefer to see posts and comments which only regurgitate one single opinion, literally all other social networks are better at that. Lemmy is not a good pick for the echo chambers. Reddit for example seems to have single orthodoxy on the Ukraine war.
Ok yeah but this dudes whole gimmick is posting unpopular opinions without ever seeing the other side. I get having a differing opinion here and there but when you're whole personality is just 'what everyone else thinks is wrong' is crazy to me. I genuinely have never seen this person post something the majority agrees with.
Granted I've never just went through his profile, but when I go through my feed and see a post that's trying to stir up people, 90% of the time it's Y
Tough decisions all around. The army needs people for defense and they seem to only be able to get men (are women being conscribed?). But men also want to live. Their deaths would be less certain on the front lines if NATO countries hadn't dragged their feet for a decade.
Oh yeah, to forcefully kidnap people from the streets/homes, put them into vans and send them to die a horrible death or not, a truly tough decision we got here...
And please don't forget, those people for whom this is a hard decision are the good guys trying to save the world, while those who see this as totally not fucking okay are fascists, Russian bots, "want to take our freedom away and kill us", etc.Funny you should mention fascists.
- BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
- Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
- The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
- The Guardian, 2017: 'I want to bring up a warrior': Ukraine's far-right children's camp – video
- WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
- Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
- The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
- openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences
- Jacobin, 2022: A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War
- Al Jazeera, 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?
Goshdarnit, I commented on a lemmy.ml post. My bad. Let me exit this echo chamber.
Yeah, NATO letting this linger and dragging their feet for no reason has resulted in so much extra suffering, it's the classic case of trying to appease people with a one second single issue attention span while dealing with conflicts that span decades and involve thousands of complex elements.
And of course trying to appease people that literally just want to see the world fall into chaos because order and the long path to social progress aren't as romantic and fun as playing the heroic idealist. So many people suffer because so few are willing to actually engage with reality.
yeah its a tough decision. get killed in war or get killed by invaders. Do you fight or run when faced with invasion? I think much will depend on if you have wives or children but even single men have mothers and nieces and nephews. Ultimately some will not have such attachments or maybe already lost them to missiles or drones.