This is pure misinformation/propaganda that won't be removed, I'd bet money on it. Join the boycott of lemmy.ml today! No posts, comments or upvotes on the .ml instance comms!
Invading with one hundred fourty-two thousand troops, that's not really a war it's just ~~a prank bro~~ a negotiating tactic. I'm sure most countries would simply laugh it off.
Just a prank, really.
142,000 troops
small
Dunno what these guys are smoking but I want some. It must get your brain good and fucked up.
This same person thinks that the only troops that EU countries are actually capable of deploying are the combined EU Battlegroups, I think they're just allergic to numbers whenever military topics come up
Sorry man, world war 1/2 troop numbers or nothing at all. Your choice.
Lol from time to time I think about that early Q TNG episode where Q puts humanity on trial (the first time) and one of his "exhibits" was when "humanity controlled their militaries with drugs"
I laughed it off years ago as a "yea right, like that'll happen" now...I'm not so sure lolol
I mean, a lot of places have a history, and/or are currently still doing, of drug use within their military. All sorts of amphetamines have been used in a lot of places in military operations. There is also a lot of opiate use too. Probably all sorts of things we don't know about, yet.
It is, or at least i used to be, common practice to give strong stimulant drugs to pilots to keep them up for very long flight orders.
The guy mugging me in the back alley had a gun to my head not to kill me, but to persuade me to give him my wallet.
I instance blocked lemmy.ml months ago
Excellent! Lol just FYI though for you and anyone else who see, instance blocks should be more thought of as a mute rather than an actual block, .ml users can still see your posts and comments and interact with them (i.e. downvote brigade, talk shit) you just won't be able to see it
If you want to have a bit of fun and get an instance block that actually works you should try speed running a site ban LMAO
This has always been my go-to strategy for exactly that reason.
Blocking .ml:
Letting .ml block you for not adhering to the narrative:
I am actually not blocked from .ml that I know of, although my server is defederated from Hexbear.
I am actually not blocked from .ml that I know of
I was...for 2 months, for 2 glorious months I could post what I want without interference.
Then one of my memes the other week must've got to davel because within like an hour of it being posted they un-site-banned me and then manually banned me from like only the top 10 or 15 comms lololol
I am banned on !worldnews@lemmy.ml for criticizing a Venezuelan government news site, I said something like "this sounds like straight out of maduros ass" lol.
It's alright that I only block the communities, some ml user are decent / don't know where they registered. However I see a decent portion of tankies spill over to the lemmy.world news communities..
some ml user are decent / don't know where they registered.
Yea, that's one reason I don't mute them myself, I try to steer those users away by showing them this comm. If you want to help, you need to give them this kind of link that routes through another instance because (the irony) they censor their users from seeing it: https://lemmy.world/c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
Same. Immediate QOL improvement.
I actually didn’t want to, because you shouldn’t shit onto an entire instance because of some of their users, but the mods are into it. When your news community is moderated by people getting hard at lies and propaganda, your entire instance is worthless.
Better late than never I guess. I hope those not afflicted by brain rot make it out of there before it’s too late.
world news on ml and world are fucking clown operations
You mean ml and lemmygrad, that shit right there is fucked up.
It was a diplomatic movement of troops into the country and the troops fired negociation bullets at the population. And all that was preceded by a wave of friendship bombs, mutual understanding missiles and affectionate cyberattacks.
And they were rushing towards the capital just so they could have a hug.
Send a small diplomatic force to their house, I'm sure they wouldn't mind.
The thing about tankies is that it is their thing to send tanks in on other people...
Tankie communism 101
I tried to check their profile to see if the post is still up, and when I didn’t find it I had hope.
I soon remembered that I blocked the community because I was banned for being pro-Ukraine, and that post is indeed still up.
Yeah I think estimates by the US state Department show it was closer to a 190,000 invading force, not 142,000. I think the USMC determined like 600,000 would have been required if Russia had intended to fully occupy Ukraine.
I think the USMC determined like 600,000 would have been required if Russia had intended to fully occupy Ukraine.
Of course, they 'only' intended to remove the democratically elected government and occupy Ukraine with the help of a Vichy regime, much better. How many Russian troops are dedicated to the Ukrainian War right now, btw?
I think it's doubled every year? I think 700k active by all accounts? With the Ukrainian army as mobilized and supplied as they are this far into the war, the calculation would require a force of something ridiculous like 2.4 million to achieve 3:1 ratio for an occupying invasion force.
Not sure why this got down voted but analysis is right.
Invasion persuasion.
We're going to negotiate for you giving us your shit or we kill you.
Probably forgot the /s
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