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Russia to Hire Contract Soldiers in Bid to Avoid Unpopular Draft. Russia is preparing to enlist more contract soldiers as it presses its invasion of Ukraine, aiming to avoid at least for now another mass call-up that could undermine popular support for the war

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Russians are pussies. Not like war is popular in any country, but if you're going to support it at least be willing to commit to it. In America we protested and they haven't done a draft in over 45 years and we still have plenty of 'patriots' still willing to fight our wars. Or just involve some proxy nation. With Russia, it's either you support it or straight to jail and few Russians have the balls to stand up en masse let alone leave the country.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

With Russia, it’s either you support it or straight to jail

With Ukraine it's the same.

few Russians have the balls to stand up en masse let alone leave the country

Ukrainians don't even have the options of leaving the country, they are imprisoned by the government, with the support from the USA. And almost nobody is talking about that let alone condemning it. After all, it's bad and is a violation of human rights only when countries USA doesn't like (North Korea, etc.) do it, doing it with approval of USA is totally okay and humane! Right?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

popular support of the war

This baffles me

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It shouldn't. Russia controls all of its media. To Russians, Putin is fighting a war to free their ancestral homeland from Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not only its own media, but almost all russian language media throughout the world is monitored and controlled by the russian government. If the only language you know is russian, it’s very hard to get unbiased information.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

almost all russian language media throughout the world is monitored and controlled by the russian government

I am sure you have very credible sources for this conspiracy theory, because as opposed to those stupid Russians, you know English and are capable of critical thinking, so this isn't just something you've heard from totally different and very honest media and accepted to be true, so would you be so kind to share them?

If the only language you know is russian, it’s very hard to get unbiased information

Definitely, after all, it's a known fact that the most popular western social platforms such as Reddit, Facebook, Discord, Instagram and previously Twitter are very open and never ban people for speaking out things that don't agree with the current narration, as opposed to Telegram for example (where a lot of russian-speaking people communicate and get their news from), which is known to ban people based on politics. Or wait, is it actually the other way around?...

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

At this point it's pretty obvious that all you need to make something popular is to have all the media repeat it in unison. Works great on our people as well.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

Russia about to scam some more Indians by dumping them on the front with a rifle.