Ukrainian intelligence released an intercepted call from Donetsk in which a Russian commander threatened to shoot any soldier who tried to retreat, shouting, “Victory or death.”
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Country press-ganging civilians into conscription vans as unpaid cannon fodder accuses professional soldiers of being forced to be there 🤓
Something tells me you don’t complain about the Soviet conscript armies for the Revolution and Great Patriotic War.
I don’t like conscription as a concept but is not the one nearly universally justifiable exception defense of a society against imperialist fascists funding and allied to Nazism worldwide?