“Defence industry analyst & consultant specialising in Land Warfare. Former British Army infantry officer. UK advisor to KNDS.”:

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    Dude sitting comfortably somewhere safe, while watching Ukrainians being herded into russian guns like its a sports game.

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      Coming soon: “8 year olds make excellent soldiers because they are harder to hit”

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      It used to be that people couldn’t understand how an entire nation could become so collectively psychopathic as Nazi Germany. Now i’m asking myself how has any nation at war ever managed not to get like this? It seems it’s much easier than we thought it was to condition an entire population to completely dehumanize their enemy as well as themselves…to become a suicidal death cult.

      Mass psychology really has turned out to be one of the most evil sciences in the history of humanity. And i’m not just talking about the applications it has for war and for governments to control the population making them think they are free and democratically in control of their own fate when they have about as little real freedom or power as serfs in medieval ages.

      It’s also the armies of psychologists that corporations employ to come up with ever more fiendish methods of manipulation and conditioning to brainwash people into endlessly worshipping at the altar of consumerism. The invention of modern advertising in the early 20th century has been a disaster for the human species. The people who developed these techniques should have been executed by firing squad.

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        Few people ever openly think or talk about it, but mass/industrial psychology is absolutely one of the worst things we’ve created as a species. People I regularly talk to don’t even believe truth exists as a fundamental concept anymore.

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          People I regularly talk to don’t even believe truth exists as a fundamental concept anymore.

          That’s quite tragic. All the more so since, even though they may not want to admit it, in practice nobody can go through everyday life without believing in some form of objective truth.

          When you go to cross the street, either there is a car coming or there isn’t. You’re not questioning the concept of truth when you see incoming traffic and (hopefully) choose not to walk into it.

          So all that this talk of not believing in the concept of truth or objective reality is, is a way to rationalize their cognitive dissonance and their hypocrisy to make themselves feel better.

          They know they’re believing lies but the lies make them feel good so they come up with this cope.

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    its so developed that it has reached a new qualitative change.

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        “It’s good that our army has been pushed back to Berlin. Now, they won’t have anywhere to run away and desert to.”

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    He is a contributor to the House of Commons Defence Committee, an Army Defence Opinion Leader, a defence blogger (UKLandPower.com) and influencer via Twitter. Prior to establishing his own strategic advisory firm, Nicholas worked for McKinsey & Company.

    Ah, I see. For all the ‘paid shills’ comment we get, actual paid shills seem to not get caught or some reason.

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      Everybody is a paid shill except for the actual paid shills. They’re just independent civic minded individuals.

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    How old is this windbag? Considering he’s a former officer and in an advisory position, I imagine he’s got to be at least in his 30s (by the picture, from what I can make out of it it’s probably more like he’s in his 50s or even older).

    In other words, he’s in his prime fighting age, if what he says is to be believed, then. Maybe he should start acting as an example of what he advocates…

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    Doesn’t fight to the death imply, ya know, death? How’re they going to make a cup of coffee dead? Also running for one’s life doesn’t have an age cutoff, older people can still run like hell when they come under fire.

    What sort of depraved lunatic would derive some sort of enjoyment or comfort from the notion that the Ukrainian soldiers cannot fight and therefore have to fight to the death? This looks like the hellish mix of denial and bargaining. About as healthy a mix as benzos and heroin.

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      What are you talking about, they are the Good Guys. Obviously they can’t die. They will beat this week’s villain and then go back to celebrate. It’s like you have never a saturday morning cartoon.

      Seriously though, they have absolute zero concern for the Ukrainian people or they would not be cheering on the elderly being conscripted.

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      Another demographic that the Kiev regime loves sending to the front are disabled people. Mental and physical. Probably for the same reason as this ghoul is celebrating here. It really doesn’t get much more depraved… (unless you’re “Israel”; their barrel of depravity apparently has no bottom)

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    Fight to the death, and then make themselves a cup of coffee

    TIL they have Keurig’s in hell.

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      That’s the only type they serve in hell. Also, none of those reusable or green cups, just the OG plastic pods. Entire mountain ranges are made of k-cups in coffee hell and it’s the burnt roasts sourced from Starbucks.

      Oh, I forgot to mention, the coffee-maker has been on the fritz lately and doesn’t usually recognize the k-cups on the first go, so it only brews under a full moon.

      Welcome to coffee hell, enjoy your stay!

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      For soldiers yes. And this is average age. Means there are many even older.

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        It’s okay, the conscripted children will help lower that average.
        Which is probably not far off at this point.

        • Biden is demanding results before election time, wouldn’t be surprised if they brought the conscription age down to 18. I imagine by the time the US allows them to surrender, Ukraine is going to look more devastated than Paraguay after the War of the Triple Alliance.

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          It’s only a matter of time. The West has been putting more and more pressure on Kiev to drastically lower the conscription age.

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      For a career soldier/officer, not particularly but for a frontline grunt? Very much so.
      I am going to go out on a limb and guess that most of those in the 40+ age bracket are conscripts, not career soldiers. Honestly I would probably put even money on the younger soldiers being the same at this point.

    • For fighting in war? Ancient. I’m around that age and I work out 6 days a week and even then sometimes I feel my body being heavy when I’m forced to do something uncomfortable. I can’t imagine eating 3 meals a day from a can, sleeping in a sleeping bag with a rifle on my chest and shitting in a bucket…

      For what, exactly?

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        sleeping in a sleeping bag

        More like trying to sleep in a puddle of cold, muddy water with a few dead bodies next to you in a trench that’s being shelled for days and drones constantly buzzing overhead.

        This after you were grabbed off the streets by a bunch of thugs with swastika tatoos, shoved in a van, given a rifle and three days’ “training” that consisted of you taking a few potshots at a target, were told you were going to be deployed to some safe backline location but really they just shipped you to the front, and when you get there you have no idea where you even are and your commanding officer is nowhere to be seen.

        War is hell.

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    I like how they “fight to the death” and then “make themselves a cup of coffee” instead of, you know, dying.