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Ukraine is not losing. And for Russia, that's a major defeat.
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/…

Ukraine Is Not Losing. Russia Is Not Winning.

A momentum shift that changes everything
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yes but for #russia the attrition is people, and for #ukraine the attrition is drones

it's not that if you get an "F" at university you get sent to the frontlines, it's that if you don't bribe your professor to get a good grade you get sent to the frontlines

there is also a quota of employees placed on businesses for drafting into frontline service

businesses have responded by "hiring" people to immediately send to the frontlines

abc.net.au/news/2026-06-07/rus…

'Happening in every university': Students sent to Putin's 'meat grinder'

Lessons look a little different at some universities and technical colleges around Russia this year, as the Kremlin tries to entice students to enlist in the military to cover massive casualties in Ukraine.
Riley Stuart (ABC News)
#ukraine #russia
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Nicole Parsons

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Russia also seems indifferent to the population bottlenecks created by their wasteful military practices.
cnbc.com/2026/02/24/russia-ukr…

codastory.com/armed-conflict/t…

geographical.co.uk/news/why-ru…

iwm.at/publication/iwmpost-art…

institutmontaigne.org/en/expre…

It stagnates their economy & leads to depopulation. What family chooses to have children destined to become cannon fodder?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demograp…

Why Russia’s demographic decline could threaten its future power

Russia still projects military force abroad, but beneath the surface it faces a deepening demographic crisis that is shrinking its population, weakening its workforce and narrowing its future options In 1976, the young French demographer Emmanuel Tod…
Geographical Contributor (Geographical)
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It's a reminder of the real agenda behind the natalism of White Supremacy & Christian Nationalism: Warfare.

As Gwynne Dyer points out in his documentary "War" every imperialist regime begins with removing the civil rights of women.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOox7MHR…

m.youtube.com/watch?v=zH_DbVqF…

It's to supply bodies for wars of conquest.

They ignore the fact that nuclear wars or hybrid wars don't care about demographic policies.

"Gwynne Dyer’s War" Part Two - "Anybody's Son Will Do" (1982)

Part 2 of 7 -- PART TWO: "Anybody's Son Will Do"This episode was nominated for an Academy-Award. Photographed on location at the United States Marine Corps ...
LionHeart FilmWorks (YouTube)
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@Npars01 @michaelgemar @benroyce @TimFinnerty @pgiulan I've been thinking lately how the Trump immigrant detentions facilities have a lot in common with Serbian rape camps.

pbs.org/newshour/nation/hundre…

Hundreds of immigrants have reported sexual abuse at ICE facilities. Most cases aren't investigated

Records obtained by Futuro Investigates reveal a systemic pattern of abuse by detention officers, contractual guards, and ICE employees, accused of sexually assaulting people in their care.
PBS News
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@Npars01 @benroyce @TimFinnerty @pgiulan I've read that Russia has about half the population it should have due to all the wars and killing there. Stalin didn't care either.

One thing that postwar Russia did right, given they were short of men: unconditional state child support for unmarried women. The surviving heroes had a lot of fun and Russia had a baby boom.

Nations that did not do that had a lot of women emigrating. Russia wouldn't allow that.

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@benroyce @pgiulan I guess it’s propaganda or nationalism or something…I was hoping there’d be rebellion by now. Surely a sizable portion of Russian citizens don’t want to leap into that meat grinder.
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i think that in a society where there is no avenue for expressing discontent, discontent still exists, but you raise the threshold before it becomes apparent. and at that higher threshold, the discontent becomes quite fucking venomous

so it's not a matter of the resistance is not there, it's more a matter of a pressure cooker that will explode

i think

it would be quite sad if people are just fed to their senseless death to the last person meekly

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@mister_shade02X2 money. Ridiculous amounts of money. Like a few million rubles just for signing contract + 300k per month, while average salary is around 40-50k

....but usually those money go to commanders as bribes, to not end in useless meatgrinder battle, and if your relatives try to get payoff for your death...well, it would be a real challenge.

Also criminals have option to sign the contract and get free after (if they don't die in process)

@benroyce @pgiulan @anneapplebaum

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@mike805 I mean, there're multiple cases of trouble caused by ex-criminals with additional war PTSD, so they let at least some of them go

Usually its not for long, because criminals are too traumatized to live in normal society, so they commit crimes again, and cycle repeats...

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@Anne Applebaum Why would Russia wanna invade Fascist people?
Tell me all you want led by mainstream intell etc but aknowledge that UO is becoming fascist and right populist as the Ukrainians collaborated with the SS Germans back then, so tell me why they ever want to occupy such territory instead of just flatten it?
AZOV squad is a neo Nazi origins squad, let alone the rest of Ukraine.

In a democratic continent as to say I never was put up the question should Ukraine be in the EU or NATO at cost of clash with Russia and all what we pay today so please stop the propaganda.

I dislike your arrogant and ignorant kind.

@Anne Applebaum
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@Khleedril @Anne Applebaum yeah I often forget to filter the others in a sub response.
My point is this post was proposed as not your article but her thoughts about it while people have to recon these days we would be stupid to start a war with them and shows the real face of EU a fascist Union led by extreme right
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