• RiverRock@lemmy.ml
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    What do you think losing a war looks like?

    It looks like snatching terrified 50 year olds off the street to man the skeleton crews of positions alongside robots. It looks like six-digit desertions.

    Nazi Germany, for example (but I repeat myself), is a war that everyone agrees they lost long before they stopped fighting.

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      It also looks like tricking foreigners to fight for you, since you are running out of locals to send to the front lines. Or brainwashing children to think war is fun, in the hopes they’ll volunteer as soon as they’re old enough.

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        You are describing “hiring mercenaries” and “glorifying the military”, two things that I personally find problematic but that are not at all indicative of losing a war.

        running out of locals to send to the front lines

        They have not even activated a draft yet

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          LMFAO! What are you talking about? Russia has been conscripting soldiers for almost the entire war. smh.

          And you can hardly call deceiving potential immigrants into coming to Russia, only to make fighting in the war a condition of their citizenship, once they get there…“hiring mercenaries”.

          How’s that kool-aid taste, man?