• Bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org
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    23 hours ago

    I wonder if in retrospect this will be considered “the straw that broke the camel’s back”?

    Putting aside the jokes about “they don’t gain ground fast enough therefore I win”, Zelensky’s strategy of fighting with a slave army of kidnapped men was and still is quite sucessful - Russia liberates no more than tens of km2 a day.
    But now, for whatever reason, he lets a good chunk of potential cannon fodder leave. Eventually running out of cannon fodder was always a ticking time bomb, and now it’s even worse…

    • freagle@lemmygrad.ml
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      21 hours ago

      The reason Russia liberates no more than tens of km2 a day is because Russia has the advantage at multiple levels and therefore can afford to move more slowly, risk fewer casualties, gather better intelligence, and maintain a sufficiently responsive position in the case of surprise.

      It is not to Russia’s detriment that they move slow they are choosing it.

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        14 hours ago

        Ah right, thanks for pointing out my mistake!
        When talking about army of kidnapped slaves I of course meant the one from the country where busification (act of violently kidnapping someone to send them to the meatgrinder, obviously against their will) has become “the word of 2024” according to a dictionary organization from that same country.
        Would you be so kind to help me to identify this country, pretty please?

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          14 hours ago

          Russia. They conscripted. They also ran out of them so had to empty prisons and use them. And when that wasn’t enough, conscripted again. And also enlist from overseas, offering lavish pay to Africans and Pakistanis et al for engineering and analytics jobs in the army but were actually sent to the front lines (so they’d die and not have to continue paying them).

          A marked difference from conscription in defence of the homeland wouldn’t you say?