Ah, lemmygrad. Hello from Hexbear. I used to lurk lemmygrad but didn’t have an account. Now I can interact with you people, who I fucking love.
I don’t know about the bribes, but draft dodging the war in Ukraine is based.
In general agree, but I get the impression that it’s mostly rich kids who get to go live in the west while poor ones are sent to die.
the rules on draft dodging are that it’s cool if you don’t support the war, and spend the rest of your life not supporting bourgeois war
if you help other people dodge that’s even better but i don’t begrudge someone who can get away but doesn’t have the means to bring 50 oh his closest friends along.
sabotage is even cooler than dodging but that’s hard to ask of anyone.
And watch as the libs over on .world all act like they never supported that “shady asiatic” Zelenskyy and were against the war from the start.
I’m guessing we’ll start seeing this narrative go mainstream when it becomes impossible to hide the fact that Ukraine lost. Recriminations are starting already, and at some point I expect that western media will miraculously remember about all the nazis and start talking about how they were cleverly misleading the noble west all along. That’s gonna be the only politically acceptable way to turn off the tap.
The trouble is, when will it ever make economic sense from the perspective of the military industrial complex to turn off the tap? Even if Ukraine offers nothing in payment the European countries sending all their F16s about to become new customers for F35s…
Indeed, now that there’s a credible enemy and NATO was forced to dump a whole bunch of its existing stock, there’s going to be an unlimited tap to produce and sell new weapons. Micheal Hudson loves to talk about the protection racket US managed to setup in Europe.
Wait until right sector start talking about how they were stabbed in the back by western liberals
Indeed, and then consider that in the context of a CBS report that found only 30% of the weapons the west sends made it to the frontline. A whole bunch of the weapons that Ukraine was flooded with ended up on the black market and made their way into Europe. It’s almost certain that Ukrainian nazis have established networks with the dpmestic ones in a whole bunch of countries at this point. It’s not hard to imagine what sort of things they might be planning once the war is over.
“The US trusted Zelensky on bad intel, so it’s all no one’s fault really”
The admins spend days federated with nazi and pedophile shelters bloviating about the importance of free speech, then post a message announcing that they’re defederating from Hexbear, pre-emptively as a last resort, because they oppose NATO and the IMF.
“Ooops we dun did another proxy war, sowwy!”
Officials taking cash and cryptocurrency bribes or helping people eligible to be called up to fight to leave Ukraine are among the charges, said Mr Zelensky, in a video posted on social media.
wtf I support military corruption now. These are probably the Ukrainian officials who have saved the most Ukrainian lives, and they’re getting the treatment of Germans who helped Nazi targets flee from Germany. What an odd coincidence.
The article doesn’t go into detail on that, so I just kinda guessed. I doubt that those “bribes” are only from bourgies since the demand to getting the fuck out is usually pretty high during war, and even some labour aristocracy folks (engineers, programmers, medics) could afford to go out. It’s not some fantastic victory of socialism, but I prefer that over those same people getting conscripted to die in the front for nothing.
Though I could be wrong, are there less trash better sources than the Beeb on this that go deeper?
