Ukraine to fire all regional military recruitment chiefs

those fired would be replaced by recent veterans and soldiers wounded at the front

Somehow I'm not sure that they would be the most effective recruiters.

I think they know quite well how it works, and hexbear. Hence the comment.

Learn how defederation works

Yep, and choosing who to federate with is part of it. GTFO.

No but it's weird that I never see any comments supporting Ukraine from hexbear users. Like the country was invaded, there is evidence of massive human rights atrocities. It is beyond the pale that so many people would just coincidentally celebrate every piece of bad news for the people being invaded and spin everything negatively against them. One would expect some diversity of opinions from any reasonably large instance but hexbear users all act like pro-russian trolls.

Actually mediabiasfactcheck.org says that Reuters is highly objective!

Never heard of hexbear but why does an instance that claims to be leftist use Trump memes and back Russia?

No you dont understand, if I dont want you here then youre a PEST whose ATTACKING ME so you need to leave, mkay?

Every wonder why this kind of liberal belief never just naturally develops in new communities like ours? Notice how they always have to insert themselves from outside and takeover modding to have any relevance? Yeah, that.

The best part was that it was always just the fact we were all terminally online and saw the same frontpage threads as everyone else. It was (almost) never an actual brigade, just the result of having a bunch of very active posters with better politics than the average redditor. That's all it took to make the worst people on reddit

Hexbear is a lemmy instance about the intersection of media, PR, and power, hosted by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.

It's not a who, it's an instance: hexbear.net. It's also full of pro-Russia tankies.

the specter of stalins floating spoon haunts us to this day

They're happy to have eastern men die forced into it and were probably the same people happy to shame them for trying to flee not to die. I'm so heartbroken for the androcide so happily encouraged by libs. I've seen gross comments from lib men how they will be happy to take over Ukrainian windows. Their kind is rotten to the core. :(

Oh the tired arguments of ruzzians.

This is about cracking down on leaders who haven't thrown out leaders under them who have been corrupt.

This is a good thing.

And that whole argument: why aren't you on the frontlines is so tired, and didn't make sense in the first place.

Who wants an old Norwegian who barely knows both Russian and Ukrainian on the frontlines when he can be at home financing drones and telling his government to step up support?

Are hexbear users in this room right now?

You act like whining about other people being on the same website as you isn't incredibly toxic behavior that deserves to be bullied.

Hexbear has been on Lemmy longer than 99% of instances. Unfortunately we were only able to enable federation recently due to technical issues.

So how are hexbear users the brigaders? Using your logic, you are the brigaders lol.

You're exactly correct! Lmao

"Opposing military conscription is stupid" and other hot takes from westerners that have never had to fight a war at home.

How is it stupid to oppose Zelenskyy's suicidal conscription polices? It makes Russia's mobilisation/conscription look pacifist by comparison.

Ukraine under his leadership has been acting up to the highest ethical ideals of the EU.

I agree with this sentence but I think we have very different ideas of what the "ethical ideals of the EU" are.

Ukraine under his leadership has been acting up to the highest ethical ideals of the EU.

Doesn't seem very ethical to me to ban your opposition parties for being left wing.

if you ukraine were to win the war (and they won't) whatever remains of their economy is going to be crippled by its accumulating debts. a lot of the 'aid' they've received—from the 'highly ethical' EU among others—consists of loans that are to be paid back in full and with interest.

and we already know what the cost of these foreign ''aid'' packages are; privatization (already well under way—ukraine even has their own website); austerity; lower wages; poorer working condition; a crackdown on labor rights and organizing (like banning left-wing parties in your country, which zelensky has already done), etc.

has been making slow progress over the past couple of decades

Zelensky was literally in the Pandora Papers lmao

You don't see his pandering to the EU as stumbling backwards into this whole situation in the first place?

I understand that it comes across as provocative, but from what I understand about his (attempted) maneuvering over the past couple years, he's kind of a spineless and weak leader who trusted the wrong side and got his country embroiled in a massive conflict.

NATO and the US are not trustworthy allies, and they let him talk up "Ukraine joining NATO ", a very dangerous thing to do, but I don't believe they had any intention of letting them in at any point. Zelensky should have understood this.

I've seen little to indicate that he's anything other than a sincere, effective, and passionate leader

Zelenski is a trained actor.

Did you see any signs Jack Gleeson wasn't a petty psychotic little shit in Game of thrones? He's actually a pretty cool guy in real life.

Ukraine is fucked. As others have pointed out, western vultures are already carving it up via mass privatization (though they may be disappointed with what’s left when the war is over). The “counteroffensive” went nowhere and whether Russia marches all the way to Odessa is really just a question of if they want to at this point. The war was lost before it started and Ukraine will be lucky if it doesn’t get annexed to pieces by Poland et al in the coming months. Best case it keeps some manner of territorial integrity and limps along as a failed state. Not sure Zelensky deserves all the blame for this disaster, as the wheels were in motion at least as early as 2014, but they definitely bet on the wrong horse here.

A question, do you truly think the Netherlands or Denmark would honestly let Ukraine join the EU? When they are already moaning about Romania and Bulgaria? Its a pipedream to sell Ukrainians on copium.

>sincere, effective, passionate leader

Zelenskyy’s popularity could make it easy for him to transition into a dictatorship

Yes and no. His poll numbers surged from about 30% to 88% after the invasion but Ukrainians want a EU path and Dictator Zelenzkyy would be in the way of that. He could certainly win another term in a landslide and do a de Gaulle but I kinda doubt he's even interested in that, he certainly wasn't terribly ecstatic about it before the war and with how things are looking martial law is going to continue past the election date, that is, there's going to be no elections. Meaning that at the end of it all there's going to be a Zelenskyy who's first going to take a vacation, and then do another season of servant of the people. Opening scene: Goloborodko wins the elections against the incumbent, a comedian who saved the nation from calamity due to sheer stupid luck (something about an asteroid if I remember my season 1 right). Finally, someone with proper qualifications in office again, a history teacher!

Least racist liberal

There’s something very telling about liberals using terms and concepts from actual fantasy settings to describe their understanding of war.

Probably had more time to train than Reddit brigades that got blown up

I mean there are literally videos of Ukrainian men being kidnapped so they can be conscripted into the military. The user you are replying to is clearly making a dark joke about that.

Romania has the same roots. Ukranians are east-slavic.