It’s not a topic people here care to discuss much, wary of feeding Russian propaganda.

But the latest National Police Service report recorded more than 600 assaults on recruitment officers to date and warned that the aggression has become “increasingly threatening”.

The first big alert came in April when several recruiters were stabbed, one fatally. Then this month in Lviv, some 200 protesters surrounded officers attempting to detain a suspected draft dodger and smashed and overturned their car.

The riot made headlines as President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned violence against serving soldiers.

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    Honestly? Fair enough. When shits fucked people gonna get violent. I don’t see any meaningful solution unless the war ends. Zelensky and Putin both can’t afford not to drive conscription and the people’s of both lands have a right to resist that.

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    This is what Europe should propose to Putin. Russia will withdraw from all land it seized from Ukraine after the 2022 invasion. NATO would be dissolved and replaced with a European alliance. Ukraine and Canada would be permitted to join but not the US. All sanctions against Russia will be lifted. Russia will not be required to pay reparations. If Putin doesn’t accept the proposal, the UK and France would send troops to Ukraine.

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      So they’re just supposed to give up Crimea and there are no security guarantees from Russia at all, a country and government famous for breaking agreements when it suits them. Allows Russia to rebuild its military and attack again. From Crimea even.

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        I would assume being allowed into the European alliance would be a security guarantee from the rest of the countries in the EU. Russian security guarantees aren’t worth anything anyway.

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      NATO would be dissolved and replaced with a European alliance.

      The US is never going to allow that to happen.

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        You just have to propose it as though it was trumps idea, and distract him from reading watching anything about it before it’s signed.

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    living in Russia is preferable to dying on a landmine, who can blame them.

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    Oh is the Ukrainian people finally waking up to the US-installed nazi regime and proxy war? FINALLY

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        The pro-ruzzian propaganda is dialed up big time lately.

        It correlates positively with just how POUNDED ruzzia is getting, what with the multiple massive wild berry warehouses targeted and their refineries on fire lol

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          I honestly couldn’t say how the war is going. My feed is full of two opposite realities. Can’t know anything for sure anymore.

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          I rewatch that major arms stockpile vaporizing once a month. The one that cracked the truck windshield from kms away

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      Get out of here with that Russian propaganda.

      This is just the same thing that happens with every country that has conscripted military service during a war. Even a war where you’re defending your own home.

      Some people will drag their feet. Some people are staunch pacifists, some people are afraid, etc.

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        My 85 year old mom has a somewhat similar view, that NATO is really responsible for the war. She’s a long time USian antiwar activist - but maybe more importantly has been watching RT news.

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      the us installed proxy war where dickfingers told Zelenski he doesn’t have the cards, humiliated him and has tried at every opportunity to get out of, to the point where the us gov does practically nothing these days except sell patriots? something europe is desperate to replace?

      that us proxy war? the one they want nothing to do with?

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      More likely, it’s the same self-preservation instinct their Russian peers are experiencing when recruiters come calling on the east side of the front line.

      Ukrainians and Russians had far more in common than in opposition. It took decades of depravation and tens of thousands of hours of warmongering propaganda to splinter them apart. Now they’re being feasted on by the oligarchs and their war machines as the territory is depopulated for the next generation of settler colonialists.