It’s not just that one unfortunately. It’s likely at around 100.000 deserters now, and half of that were from 2024 alone.

https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-10-14/alarm-in-ukraine-over-increasing-number-of-army-deserters.html

I’m not questioning that, I just am very worried how this will continue - especially after the orange toddler gets into office.

Well, they also face quite some serious desertion issues at the moment too.

Where did they “express glee over their corpses”?

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Any guess who “they” may refer to? Commanders? Generals? Politicians in the Kreml?

People who murder, rape, torture and plunder. They all made their choice, even if that choice was complacency. In the end, they became aggressors, and consequently taken out, as they should. The moment you cross the border into Ukraine, you’re an invader.

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Definitely not gay bondage. Nuh-uh!

If it were this simple, then we’d not have anyone freeze to death nowadays. Either way, it goes all past my initial point anyway.

Without protection, you can already freeze to death when it is around 10 degrees Celsius. Right now it is around 0 degrees during the day, colder at night. And it isn’t just about surviving. Go take showers that hurt your skin and make your limbs go numb for a while and it will severely affect your mental state.

I’m curious how this will go. Still a long while until it gets warmer and especially freezing cold water can quickly become a breaking point if you’re not a very strong willed person.

I wonder why they don’t use a stabilized turret. Seems really hard to aim with the constant bobbing and turning.

Not sure what the goal with this is. Ukraine receives missile warnings on a daily basis and their little “Oreshnik” boogeymissileman isn’t as scary as Russia may think.

Why would a hacked TV stream cause a nuclear war? lol

Technically the AfD is actually pro immigration.

But the tone quickly becomes sharper. We have to make sure, says Lüth, that the Federal Republic is even worse off, because that would play into the AfD’s hands politically: “If everything went well now (…), the AfD would be at three percent. We don’t want that. That’s why we have to think about a tactic between: How bad can things get for Germany? And: How much can we provoke? It’s like this. (…) It’s difficult, very difficult.” All of this was “discussed at length” with Alexander Gauland.

In the end, Lüth even indulges in violent fantasies. Lisa Licentia asks him: “Above all, it sounds as if it would be in your interest for more migrants to come?” Lüth replies: “Yes, because then the AfD will be better off. We can always shoot them all later. That’s not an issue at all. Or gas them, or whatever you like. I don’t care!”

https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2020-09/christian-lueth-afd-alexander-gauland-menschenfeindlichkeit-migration

Money can buy influence. Although the multi party system in Germany inherently makes it more protected against meddling, since you’d somehow have to buy out all or at least most major parties. And with where the AfD stands it is hard to find any allies here. The FDP unsurprisingly supported Musk before this article but backpedaled hard right after.

I just think that when we got fascism latching on to western governments it might be a more pressing concern than climate change. Not because climate change isn’t the main fucking problem, but because they will ignore it.

Again, by that metric you should already act now, because the world is collectively ignoring it.

It’s not possible due to your location or finances?

Both.

You could stand with the rest of us when the shitstorm finally comes to our doors and fight.

Stand with whom? And do what? The majority of people don’t want to have climate policies, since they’d directly affect their own personal comfort. What makes you think they’d suddenly play revoluzer? And what shitstorm do you mean? Most of the severe consequences will be way off in the future and by the time things get worse, people will align more and more with the people who promise empty shit and to deal with all the climate refugees at the borders. You’d be made an example at that point. And honestly, if you were this determined, why not do something extremistic now? If you truly believe in some sort of armed insurgence in the future, why not go and blow up some fossil fuel & high emission shit? Why wait for when things become more and more inevitable?