• atro_city
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    244 months ago

    How are they being so easily captured? What’s going on there?

    • Ellia Plissken
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      604 months ago

      it’s a mindset. pretty much none of them asked to be there, and they’re not fighting to defend their homes, so why the fuck should I do anything dangerous?

      • The Quuuuuill
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        264 months ago

        Also think about what the Ukrainian soldiers know about what’s at stake, and think about that core to the Russian experience is never knowing what truth is

    • @[email protected]
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      74 months ago

      Ever see a prison riot get stopped? These are conscripts that were promised freedom if they killed enough people.

      They fall back on their most recent training; prison training. They sit when told, doesn’t matter who instructs them.