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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by streb-lo on Friday February 28, 2025 @03:33PM (#43210168)
The vast majority of them volunteered. And that's just conscription -- every country would do the same in such a situation. The US pursued and prosecuted thousands of cases of draft dodging in WW2, forcing most of them to go and fight.
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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by s1artibartfast on Friday February 28, 2025 @03:39PM (#43210312)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_Ukraine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_conscription_crisis

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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by gnfargbl on Friday February 28, 2025 @03:30PM (#43210122)
In the short term, certainly. In the longer term? I'm pretty glad not to have been born into an occupied British puppet state. If not for a man with the obstinacy of Zelenskyy, I might have been.

It was always ironic that Trump kept a bust of Churchill in the Oval Office but after today, it's almost obscene.

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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by logicchains on Friday February 28, 2025 @03:35PM (#43210229)
In the longer term there's realistically no chance of Ukraine regaining the land it lost. In both this scenario and that scenario Russia annexes part of Eastern Ukraine, but in that scenario there aren't hundreds of thousands of dead Ukrainians.
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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by gnfargbl on Friday February 28, 2025 @03:37PM (#43210272)
And what exactly do you think Putin will do after he successfully exits this particular engagement?

Past performance is, in fact, often quite a reliable guarantee of future results.

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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by johngladtj on Friday February 28, 2025 @03:51PM (#43210545)
Lick his wounds for years, and die.

This Ukraine debacle wasn't the clean win he wanted.

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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by gnfargbl on Friday February 28, 2025 @05:33PM (#43212582)
If you believe Putin only wants "clean wins," you've fundamentally misunderstood his character.

It's a binary outcome from his perspective. If he obtains his his key objectives at some survivable cost, that's a win for him.

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