- cross-posted to:
- news@hexbear.net
- ukraine@lemmy.ml
Eddie Chaloner, a former consultant surgeon and British army medic, said: “War is something that’s happened somewhere else, done by the professionals. It’s a bit like a thunderstorm. It’s inconvenient, but doesn’t really disrupt civil society.
Holy colonizer brain.
Tragic. And the saddest part is that they would be doing much better if they stuck to their old Soviet doctrines rather than blindly adopting NATO standards out of this misguided belief that the West knows everything better and is so much more advanced than the “backwards” Eastern Europeans.
Also, probably doesn’t help that much of the army now consists of gang pressed conscripts who have weeks of training.
Sadly this is a completely necessary and unavoidable conflict as per the laws of capitalism, so we’re forced to look for solutions in the details.




