• mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    5 months ago

    You could also fall back

    No they can’t. A long prison sentence in a Russian prison is their best case scenario from that.

    They can try to surrender at the first good opportunity, is probably best, but that is also dangerous, maybe very dangerous if you have family back home that you are supporting. There are not options for the average solider on the ground that are any good at all (or for that matter for someone back at home who wants to try to stop the Putin machine), is part of this guy’s voice sounds like that.

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        5 months ago

        Probably so, yes. And honestly that’s the right and the only outcome, sure. And that outcome is in their faces all the time; it’s not like they can have any illusions about it. Remember so-and-so, and so-and-so, that we used to hang out with? That body on the road crumpled up that we just drove past, that was one of those guys. Better we’re moving on from this area, then, I guess. Are we eating soon? I’m looking forward to it. Maybe tomorrow I’ll die and be another of those crumpled up guys on the side of the road, or one of the burned out twisted things inside one of the vehicles, and just stay like that and everyone else going past and looking at what used to be me. Maybe it won’t happen tomorrow. Looking forward to eating tonight.

        Like I said, that’s why his voice sounds like that.

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          I remember reading an interview with a random Russian soldier who said that’s just how it is in Russia.

          Perhaps it’s indoctrination ? like the pilgrims at hajj keeling over and dieing from heatstroke, the indoctrination runs as deep with Russians ?

          I certinaly have nothing but disdain for my country (Australia) so I don’t get the whole nationlism/patriotism ferver in the first place .

          ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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          Fuck him. Hope he dies. They should GTFO of Ukraine or fucking die in the mud where they belong.