Russian invasion of Ukraine

I’m confused af by the point you’re trying to make. Are you seriously suggesting you’ve not seen German anti war protests?

Being a pacifist doesn't work out very well when dealing with Russia.

Being a pacifist rarely works well in the face of military aggression. However, if you're suggesting that pro-war and pacifist are the only two options then I would respectfully disagree.

Never mind, looks like they managed to dig up some AK-47s after all.

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You are living in Ukraine and Russian soldiers enter your town.
What is your “ other option”?
Pacifism gets you or your family and friends killed or deported for slave labour.
Fighting back might stop that.

To reluctantly and with a heavy heart accept that fighting back is the least worst option available, while regretting the need to do so and neither accepting defeat nor saying 'Yay, war, goody!'

Reports about Russia closing their borders.

Protests in Dagestan, one woman heard shouting 'why are you taking our children? Who was attacked? Russia was attacked? They didn't come to us, it was us attacking Ukraine. Russia has attacked Ukraine! Stop the war.....

Are more starting to get the picture now? Is this just the beginning? Are these shocking forced conscriptions starting to sink in?

Spoke to a friend in Crimea, she said that the majority of people there support the war..

Meanwhile in Russia

Credit - https://twitter.com/maxfras/status/1574027504326791168

Brilliant

Lots of videos on twitter of conscripts being forced onto buses.
Front line officers better watch their backs.

Wow it’s just like WW2 again.

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Nobody should want to do unpleasant things, he's not saying he wouldn't reluctantly do so if forced, and thankfully he's not at war and neither are you.

There's a video of a draftee walking into a draft centre and just shooting the CO dead in Irkutsk which is one way to avoid service.

Jailtime is better than HIMARS time seems to be the calculation being made.

Heck no, There are 5 million or so finns. On the other side of the border there are just as many ruzzians in Leningrad. They start freely wondering over we are done. We already have a russian speaking minority since in the 90s our president Koivisto wanted to support the russians with finnish heritage. In my youth there were never this many russians in Finland. We want to keep our own culture and not be invaded to save the russians.

Little rust on the outside is no biggie. As long as the barrel is straight and the internal parts are cleaned it works just like normal. I've actually handled an AK and they are pretty clunky even if they are maintained well.

Willing and able ukrainians are putting up a good fight. If all the young people had just left for West baabushka's would have been left at the mercy of ruzzians.

Enlistment officer gets shot in the back by a conscript. Just another day in Russia.

If you don’t want to see someone get shot than don’t click the link.
https://twitter.com/hochu_dodomu/status/1574273891534786561

Of course I've seen German anti war protests but my point is that Russian minorities in Germany are not so vocal about it and seem to have a different point of view.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-diaspora-germany-holds-rare-rally-against-sanctions-2022-09-04/

https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-pro-russia-demonstrations-spark-outrage-in-germany/a-61422488

Not to mention some random occurrences of straight up bullying Ukrainians.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraina/comments/vaki68/ukrainian_woman_harassed_by_two_fascist_imbeciles/

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1556635205590466561

What are the odds that the person who just shot up a school in Russia, wearing Nazi paraphernalia, is going to turn out to be Ukrainian?

Christ, really?

Twitter says local news outlets says the gunman just had been mobilized

They've said that he'd been a pupil at the school, so don't imagine they can make that fly.