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submitted 3 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world
  • Ukrainian's shock offensive on Russia's Kursk region came as a surprise even to Ukraine's soldiers.
  • "We joked that it wasn't April 1st," a Ukrainian soldier told The Economist.
  • The country's troops did suspect that an invasion was imminent after they were issued new equipment.
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[-] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 months ago

What country has a system where SOLDIERS IN THE MILITARY can't be forced to invade another country?

Like it's a nice ideal, but considering your idea is novel and radical maybe start with countries that aren't at war.

Second of all, once you're at war, you're at war. There is no "just defend your territory" because that means there is no reason not to invade you and no loss scenario for your invader, the worst outcome they lose some soldiers and your borders are unaffected. Once you are attacked you have to seek every legal advantage (see the Geneva convention) to obtain victory and repel your attackers. On that basis I'm not even sure your idea is sound or reasonable in the first place for a defending country. And in this specific scenario it's just helping Russia.

I'm marking you as a Russian troll just to see how often you're on here defending Russia by "just asking questions" about the actions of Ukraine while not holding Russia to any standard at all .

[-] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

I've done so already, and they act like this in almost every thread. They're a bad actor and not here in good faith.

[-] mamotromico@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

As far as I know that’s the case in Japan.

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