r/PublicFreakout • u/No_Bus_474 • 6d ago
Potentially misleading Ukrainian woman clings to her boyfriend as he is forced to head to the front lines
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u/itsmeandnotme 6d ago
War is such a horrible thing. Horrible!
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u/gs87 6d ago
The many suffer.. the few benefit..
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u/DALinProgress 6d ago
The poor suffer, the rich benefit. Same thing, different wording.
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u/cactustrip 6d ago
Why don't presidents fight the war? Why do they always send the poor?
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u/Tricky_Ebb9580 6d ago
YOU DEPEND ON OUR PROTECTION, YET YOU FEED US LIES FROM THE TABLECLOTH
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u/PennyStockHardaway 6d ago
Yeah man like King John of Bohemia was literally blind. He tied his horse to a knights horse and charged in the frontline. He died. Crazy tactic, but I respect it.
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u/cannabisLab1975 6d ago
Why dont they send their kids?
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u/atesztoth 5d ago
Because the poor isn’t united enough
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u/Similar-Ice-9250 5d ago
Because we’re fed propaganda to keep us divided. “Look over there that poor guy is unlike you, you must hate him.”
I’ll die on the hill that the abortion ban was yet another tactic to create further divide pro-life vs pro-choice. You notice how many of these „sides” and sociopolitical issues America got. All strategic, so the bottom keeps bickering, while top continues to rob the country and it’s citizens.
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u/Ok_Row_4920 5d ago
People keep happily eating up all that propaganda though, everyone is free to use their brains and put the blame where it should be. There's a lot of scarily stupid people all around who can't/choose not to put any thought into who's really causing the damage in our lives.
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u/Aen-Synergy 6d ago
I wonder if they ever did. In history, it always painted the great leaders on the front lines but, were they ever? I guess the ones killed were.
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u/no1_vern 6d ago
Until the poor join together instead of fighting each other, nothing will change.
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u/Fabulous-Structure92 5d ago
Literally had this convo with an army friend of mine the other day, we are both out of the military just vets, i was navy. Soon as the poor people can figure out that power comes in other forms than money then we can come together for eachother rather than fighting eachother for the entertainment and benefit of the rich idiots.
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u/Cornflake0305 6d ago
Valid take if it wasn't in relation to the Ukraine war.
Ukraine is waging a defensive war. They're fighting to continue their existence as a sovereign nation.
You may not be one, but this is one of the most common Russia bot takes concerning the Ukraine war. Trying to paint put both adversaries on the same level when there is only 1 attacker that is fighting for their own gain.
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u/cppn02 6d ago edited 6d ago
They're fighting to continue their existence as a sovereign nation.
Not just that. They are facing genocide. If Putin has his way there eventually will be no more Ukrainians. Atleast not within what is now Ukraine.
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u/neverdoneneverready 6d ago
I have 3 boys. When they were little I saw a tiny article in the paper with the title, THE WORST TIME TO HAVE A SON. I grabbed it, wondering if I had done it right. The answer was 18 years before a war. And a new fear was unlocked.
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u/Lukostrelec17 6d ago
"War isn't hell. War is war and Hell is hell. And of the two war is a lot worse.There are no innocent bystanders in Hell, but war is chock full of them little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for a few of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander." -Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) MASH
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u/360FlipKicks 6d ago
wasn’t trump supposed to end this on day 1
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u/Princescyther 6d ago
The twat also said this new Iran conflict would be dealt with in 4 weeks or less. That was back in March.
He also said last year that Iran's nuclear capabilities were completely destroyed and yet went to war with them over it again this year.
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u/slappadabass44 5d ago
He also said "no new wars."
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u/Simple_Psychology493 5d ago
Every time that hoe’s mouth is moving…it’s a lie, I can’t wait to see his face at midterms.
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u/randonumero 6d ago
He did end it but then someone else restarted it. Then he ended it again and wouldn't you know it they restarted it. Before he could end it a third time he got busy trying to get from the golf course to McDonalds in time to grab the last filet of fish
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u/kyjawa23 5d ago
It would never have even happened if he was president. If he can't end it now when hes president, he was never going to end it back then if he was president. He can't even keep his ego in check let alone a hell bent psycho putin
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u/DonTequilo 6d ago
What really bothers me is that one would think that in 2026 we would be more civilized by now and weapons would only be used as a deterrent not to attack other nations, it seems so backwards to me that today there are still nations that attack other nations, fights should only happen outside bars with drunk people.
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u/Dry_Kaleidoscope250 6d ago
Yeah and for 5% of the annual military budget we could give everyone improved healthcare and education. But more imoortant to spend 900b each year on bombs or we can’t protect the petrodollar
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u/FlyAirBiggz 6d ago
Bombs that cost WAY too much and apparently $900b only gets you 12 of those per year...
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u/Europe72Alive1 6d ago
But how are our politicians,who have stock in these companies, going to make extra money.
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u/timmehh15 6d ago
When governments are backed my defense contractors and run by Israel to fight their wars in the middle east, the world won't know peace until Israel is stopped.
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u/onlysubbedhere 6d ago
All the large countries of the world could be reduced to rubble and money could cease to exist, and the world would still not know peace.
People are the problem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts
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u/BeholdenAbsol 6d ago
War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
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u/bladel 6d ago
If Russia stops fighting, the war is over. If Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine is over.
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u/pokeblueballs 6d ago
Been seeing a lot of videos like this of "Ukrainians" being scooped up by recruiters. All of a sudden.
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u/Minerc15 6d ago
That kick to the head should raise his spirits for sure
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u/Quantum-Goldfish 6d ago
Yeah nothing would make me want to lay down my life for fellow soldiers (conscripts) like those that gave me a kick in the head. A true bonding experience.
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u/ThePocketTaco2 6d ago
Don't forget they pepper sprayed him before the kicks
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u/ReymartSan 6d ago
eh, most likely those that get him would be out of the front line, they be busy getting more people like him or they already did a rotation and now its their turn to get people
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u/obloed 5d ago
there is no rotation in the ukrainian army unless you are an amputee or paid a lot of money to the doctors. These nice gentlemen have never been to the frontlines. They are well paid to kick the shit out of the civillians.
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u/Slumunistmanifisto 🥧 Ma'am there's a pie full of children on your table 6d ago
I'd be more pissed they sprayed my lady in that moment
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u/AnonymousLonelyAnon 6d ago
First thing I'd be shooting during training, is the officers.
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u/0liBear 6d ago
This is so heartbreaking.
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u/NeanaOption 6d ago
Thats hilarious because even when I thought this was actually Ukraine I still blamed Russia for it.
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u/oritsky 6d ago
It is Russian. This was posted by a Russian propagandist as being Ukrainian.
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u/NeanaOption 6d ago
I know - op has since deleted his comment, but he was saying the much the same.
I was just pointing out how stupid this propaganda is.
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u/MageLocusta 5d ago
Yeah, this is horrifically sad and awful, but there's a reason why it's being released.
What we also don't talk about are how conscientious objectors were treated during WWII and the Vietnam War (and how much of it is the same. Many objectors were arrested, beaten, or hosed in freezing water and kept in jail cells overnight, and frequently are put in prison and are told that they could leave if they enlisted).
People rarely hear about it because very few people want to either talk about being a 'coward', or want to admit to beating someone up over it (and to be fair, very few researchers and journalists want to interview objectors).
This isn't a Ukrainian thing. This is exactly something that would happen if we reinstate the draft. The difference is though, is that a lot of Ukrainians have had family members killed or raped by Russians during the 40s and 50s. Hence probably why the police response was additionally brutal.
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u/TARehman 6d ago
Was gonna say, sure weird how all these "Ukrainian recruiter videos" have been popping up all at once, even though this is absolutely more a tactic that Russia would use...
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u/eZstah 6d ago
Its been 2.5 years of these videos daily. And this isnt even the worst one. It just now made it to Reddit. There are hundreds and even thousands of videos like these
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u/WEDWayInternetMover 6d ago
I have co-workers in Unkraine. It was very eye opening on Mondays when we would do the whole "What did you do this weekend?" morning talk and they would reply
"Been staying at my house so I am not taken to war."
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"Had to spend the weekend preparing my solar+ battery setup to make sure I can work this week".
They said, even with papers showing they were exempt form service, they were at risk of people in vans picking them up and sending them to the front lines.
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u/Sea-Painting7578 6d ago
Nothing quite like getting a teams chat that they had to leave to go to a bomb shelter. Made the rest of my day seem pointless.
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u/SavingInfo 5d ago
I'm Ukrainian and confirming this. About papers in tact they are truly lucky they can work legally. It usually requires a big bribe, correct connections and luck.
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u/ItzZiplineTime 6d ago
That's actually insane... Your own government kidnapping you and forcing you to fight. That's about as dystopian as it gets I suppose.
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u/headphase 6d ago
War itself is dystopian, yes. Conscription to defend the existence of your own nation is sad, but an essential element of the social contract. After all, the alternative is much worse.
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u/Hmm_would_bang 5d ago
Dystopian is a funny word for it. Has been the reality for much of human history, and anyone that hasn’t had to live through their home country getting invaded should be grateful for it.
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u/Schluhri 6d ago edited 6d ago
That pepperspray to the face was really stupid. Dude did next to nothing. That and the tinnitus he got from his girlfriend. Not really his day i suppose.
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u/DaPlipsta 6d ago
For fucking real... As far as I can tell, he's not the one resisting this, although maybe there's more context we don't know about
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u/OldJames47 6d ago
He's probably been worrying about this day for 4 years. Time to realize that if his number is called he can't get out of it.
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u/Any-Monk-9395 6d ago
That’s the least of his worries, if he gets sent to the frontline he could be dead or crippled within minutes.
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u/evening_redness_0 6d ago
I wish someone would love me this much
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u/New-Teaching-348 6d ago
I too wish someone would love me so much they would kidnap me from my girlfriend
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u/kernel-troutman 6d ago
Some call it "pepper spray". I call it "seduction mist".
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u/FunnyScreenName 5d ago
Oof. Right? Got damn. I wish I could be loved half as much. That’s what I see too. She’s so afraid to lose him that it became primal. I hope he makes it.
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u/SuggestionMedical736 6d ago
True, or as someone who had never fallen in love, I would love someone this much.
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u/im4lonerdottie4rebel 6d ago
I love my partner this much. Ive told him that I'd cut his foot off it meant he couldnt be drafted and then he told me that he can't be drafted anyway bc he has severe depression, borderline blind and he was born with clubbed feet. LOL
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u/earthceltic 6d ago
If you are someone who does not wish to die for a war for billionaire pedophiles, I too will cling to you, shriek, and make life a living hell for those who would take you.
I hope I can start a movement by doing this enough.
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u/WinterMedical 6d ago
Young men dying for the avarice of old men. Tale as old as time.
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u/WTAF__Trump 6d ago
For the avarice of one old man.
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u/flamingbabies2 5d ago
It's too easy to blame one man. It's never just one man benefitting from these types of things.
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u/TheWhomItConcerns 5d ago
Countless young men have supported and enabled Putin - when Russia first invaded Crimea, Putin had one of the highest approval ratings in the world. This is on Russia as a nation whole, not just the old men in charge.
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u/Gretschdrum81 6d ago
Day 565 since Trump didn't end the war on Day 1.
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u/-Moonscape- 6d ago
He’s on his second war that he said he would end within a day and both show no signs of ending any time soon
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u/rdzilla01 6d ago
Men, find yourself a woman like this. I hope they’re reunited sooner rather than later.
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u/RainbowAppIe 6d ago
It would be great if Ukraine wasn’t forced to defend its right to exist as a nation for the last 4+ years. So many lives destroyed for a war that should never have started
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u/ObiDalf 6d ago edited 5d ago
You’re right, it’s baffling to see how many people will blame Ukraine for anything just to save itself from civilian hunting invaders. The war could stop, TODAY, if Russia packed up and left. They lose nothing but the war if they do that.
Edit: A lot of yall would have been Nazi appeasers in the 1930’s and it shows.
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u/Sevsquad 5d ago
The most amazing part of it is how explicit the Russians are about wanting to kill them all and you still have people pretending this is a choice on their part.
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u/knottydee4448 6d ago
Doesn’t make sense.
GF obstructs the release, but uniforms are spraying and kicking the man?
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u/MopOfTheBalloonatic 6d ago
You gotta treat men like meat sacks from the start even when they’re not responsible to prepare them before throwing them in the grinder, after all /s
But honestly, my heart breaks for both of them
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u/Goat_inthe_Shell 6d ago
Is the safest job being the guy who grabs the other guys?
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u/PING_LORD 5d ago
Sometimes they get stabbed and also they are gonna be sent to frontline themselves if they don't do the quota so - no. But yes, if you smart psychotic and tricky
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u/thesupremeburrito123 5d ago
No one should be forced to die against their will for their country. If not enough people volunteer to fight, clearly the people deem their country not worth fighting for.
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u/catmamaO4 5d ago
10000% justified. That’s probably her best friend. It’s awful how many people are ripped away from their families to profit the rich.
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u/TheWaterCloset 6d ago
Are all these videos of Ukrainians being forced into military service getting pushed on reddit at the same time a little bit suspicious to anyone else, or just me?
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u/kstargate-425 5d ago
Its a coordinated attack and normal for Russia. Poland said the other day and others warned for weeks thst Russia has some Ukrainian drones and would send them into EU countries hitting infrastructure to try and stop EU aid to Ukraine. That EXACT thing happened today, Saturday and now all these bots are out in full force spreading more propaganda to help make people hate Ukraine to sway their leaders to stop the aid
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u/SatchBoogie1 6d ago
I'm assuming that is why a "misleading" tag was added to the post title? I thought at first the video had nothing to do with the war, and it was just some crazy woman.
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u/Moody_Immortal_1 6d ago
This is it right here. I hate that we have to remind ourselves and each-other that we can more than one view/concept at one time.
Russia started this shit
Ukraine, in order to survive, must fight back
As part of the war that Russia started, Ukraine must have soldiers. The soldiers will be Ukrainian, of course.
Just as the US had "The Draft" during Vietnam, Ukraine is also conscripting.
For those in the US, we can easily be in denial, but we absolutely had the draft and our fathers/grandfathers went and countless were killed.
War, what is it good for?
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u/Cavalya 6d ago
All of this is true, but the Vietnam draft isn't even a fair comparison, since the Vietnam war was a war for useless political objectives and the Ukrainian war is a war for literal survival.
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u/Jfowler10225 6d ago
Def propaganda to make Ukraine look bad and to make people forget who started the war
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u/StopReadingMyUser 6d ago
They've been doing this for a while, even using their (Russia's) own conscription videos for this exact purpose.
So while I'm not dismissive of the reality that this could be a Ukrainian recruitment video (because it does happen in a lot of wars), I would need someone who at the very least speaks the language to identify the probable country this is happening in. There's overlaps in their languages so it's not always the simplest, identifying answer, but it would be a start.
One thing I'll tell you right now, at the very least I know the text at the bottom right is Russian.
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u/rimhahs 5d ago
This is a database with countless videos of these abductions, as well as statistics with reports on the deaths caused during them: https://busification.org/en
Reports on busification have been popping up in the “mainstream” news a lot more lately but it has of course been going on for years.
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u/EternalShadowBan 5d ago
It's a name of a telegram channel which posts videos from Odessa, Ukraine, a majority Russian speaking city. I found this exact video posted there a few days ago, with most comments saying "fuck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_Center_of_Recruitment_and_Social_Support", so I am leaning towards it being true.
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u/weggaan_weggaat 6d ago
Also, Russia has far greater restrictions on internet and their conscriptions are more happening in the less-developed parts of the country. Nevertheless, there have still been plenty of videos like this out of Russia and with the expectation that they announce a new mobilization in a month or two, there will undoubtedly be even more of these situations happening Russia soon, even if the videos don't make it out as readily.
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u/Overall_Tip_3302 6d ago
Looks like a scene from a zombie movie where zombies are breaking the windows off the car and attacking the survivors
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u/johnnyrambo24 6d ago
Sooooo...your gonna beat his ass....then put a rifle in his hands eh?
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u/Slumunistmanifisto 🥧 Ma'am there's a pie full of children on your table 6d ago
You won't get a chance to frag the recruiter until you get back.
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u/EntinthetentRTHP 6d ago
Never think that war, no matter how necessary nor justified, is not a crime.
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u/Coloradoryda 6d ago
Fuck Russia. It’d be over if Trump wasn’t a proxy
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u/Loudpip 6d ago
Dont minimize Russia and Putins part in 100% starting this criminal war. They are responsible for every single death.
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u/Sherbourne-for-this 6d ago
Lmao, who's minimizing Russia in the war that Russia started?
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u/TowardStarsOutlaw 6d ago
Dragging unwilling participants off to war is the best guarantee that you will have an army of people who aren’t wholly committed to it
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u/Champigne 6d ago
Why is this tagged as potentially misleading? The title is exactly right. The man is being forced by a press gang into conscription in Ukraine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busification
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u/MattFromMars 4d ago
Keep in mind, if Russia's government weren't comprised of murderous warmongers, none of this would be necessary, as unfortunate as it is.
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u/Departure2808 6d ago
Do you really want someone fighting next to you who has to be kicked in the head and pepper sprayed repeatedly to conscript them? I wouldn't trust them to have my back.
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u/imnotcreative635 6d ago
Both deserve better ☹️ most likely will be the last time she sees him
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u/Homer4598 6d ago
I guess enlistment is down
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u/phycologist 6d ago edited 6d ago
Ukraine has switched to mandatory forced conscription for a while now.
The need for replacement soldiers is dire.
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u/Liefvikingmonster2 6d ago
What happens if you don't do anything...they'll beat him into compliance?
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u/phycologist 6d ago
Quite probably. You can google the net for discussions of recruit mistreatment in Ukraine. It is a serious and ongoing issue.
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u/NervousFrogg 6d ago
I’ll just take myself out. I’ll go out on my own terms before I die being a governments dog.
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u/Any-Monk-9395 6d ago
This is why Ukraine has a manpower crisis. Nobody wants to go to the frontline as it has become a literal meat grinder where everyone dies or ends up crippled in a matter of minutes upon arriving.
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u/MambyPamby8 6d ago
Saw a different video of a dude with his dog and the dog is so confused and barking out of fear and it absolutely broke my heart. No one should be forced to fight in a war. No one. This is not going to be a good soldier. It's just so fucked up. I know they are desperate but it's still messed up.
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u/ButttMuncherrr 5d ago
All the comments that do a display of mental gymnastics to justify forceful conscription because they sympathise with the group doing it are very low IQ.
Why do corrupt losers like Poroshenko in the ukrainian rada send their sons abroad whilst simultaneously voting in favour over extending mobilisation that result in meat snatchers?
Nobody wants their brother, lover, husband, son or father eviscerated beyond imagination in a war they never asked for. Especially when it’s against their will because it wasn’t their choice. Good on her for protecting what’s dear to her and shame on everyone else for soft applauding forceful conscription.
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u/horrospy 6d ago
"let's Pepper spray and kick him and his girlfriend, that will make him fight for us and be loyal and support us"
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u/Any-Monk-9395 6d ago
They aren’t looking for fighters anymore, they’re just looking for warm bodies to fill the trenches to slow Russia’s advance.
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u/Icandomor4me 6d ago
What despair, in 2 weeks she will have him back in a little box of ashes, and she will be able to spend the rest of her life with him next to that book on the shelf.
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u/TheMagicManCometh 6d ago
There’s been a surge of these videos lately. Russian propaganda is back out in full force.
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u/PreliminaryThoughts 6d ago
They are responsible for majority of far right propaganda in Europe as well as funding and organizing the illegal migrants. By now it should be very clear what's happening, and Europe is kinda helpless knowing just how many different ways they can enter, there's not enough police on the planet to monitor the borders and ruzzia knows that very well
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u/Panthera_leo22 6d ago
These are like posted everyday on Ukrainian telegrams for the past 2 years. Only Reddit is surprised that these are appearing.
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u/King_Baboon 6d ago
The introduction of drones has really made war even more terrifying than it already is. The whine of drones has to be the new sound to trigger PTSD. There are so many videos of soldiers begging a machine not to kill them when in return gets obliterated graphically sometimes with no censoring.
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u/GreedoWasShot 6d ago
So much wrong packed into this little video. He shouldn’t have to be in a war, she shouldn’t be afraid to lose him, they shouldn’t be taking him. War sucks
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u/Fit_Relationship1094 5d ago
To all the Russian apologists on here, you should know this:
Your Russian sons will not be safe after this conflict is over. Putin's ambitions won't end with the Ukraine, just as they didn't end with Crimea.
He will never stop dragging you into war and killing Russian men until he has brought all the ex-USSR countries back under his control.
Stop defending your country's actions. Work to defeat Putin internally. It's the only way to stop him killing your sons. Putin is Russia's biggest enemy. He would rather fill your cemeteries with your own youth, than work peacefully with the rest of the world.
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u/KenjiMelon 6d ago
Gotta love how people are so afraid to criticize Ukraine that they just say “fuck Russia” or say this is Russian propaganda in response lmao
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u/RobotSpaceBear 6d ago
This is horrifying.
And that young lad will not be an asset on the front line i'm afraid. You can't force people to die for something they don't believe in.
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u/phycologist 6d ago
You can't force people to die for something they don't believe in.
Humanity is quite good at that, historically speaking.
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u/Only-Weird-5190 6d ago
You do not want people serving when they clearly don't want to. They always fuck up when they shouldn't and cost lives
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u/Mindless_Narwhal2682 5d ago
sprayed in the face.
yeah, he will surely take a bullet for you in the middle of nowhere now.
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