With Ukraine’s military badly outnumbered by the invading Russians and desperately in need of more soldiers, villages like Makiv are being emptied of their fighting-age men.
  • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
    58·
    8 months ago

    Comment I replied to is explicitly about Russia in Ukraine right now.

    Edit then someone posted an image trashing NATO for something unrelated to Russia being in Ukraine right now, thus proving me right.

    Talking about other conflicts or historical events is classic goalpost moving.

    I didn’t contest or even bring up paperclip Nazis in the west, someone reflexively did which is great.

    Edit Regarding the image, acting like the us/west was the only one trying to collect Nazi intelligence via recruiting scientists and the like is comical. If the soviets could have got them, they would have. Sucks to suck?

      • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
        49·
        8 months ago

        Lol no.

        Whatever folks they sent to the gulag they wrung dry of knowledge first. Stalin had a fun habit of discarding his playthings when bored.

        https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/605972#:~:text=In the fall of 1945,German academics and industrial scientists.

        There are many articles on this, pick any source you find acceptable, I don’t need to play whackamole and find more than one to get you started

        Edit Regarding your links, I never contested paperclip Nazis or NATO involvement in Ukraine but “regime change” in Ukraine is silly. It’s a defensive war to kick Russia OUT of Ukraine.

        You’re just mad it’s “kyiv” not “kiev” and it’s “Ukraine” not “the Ukraine”

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            8 months ago

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          • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
            14·
            8 months ago

            Dude I thought we moved past this. Are you just linkbombing everything in your feed?

            Edit yep, often the exact same stuff. Dang

      • Gabu@lemmy.ml
        23·
        8 months ago

        Ukraine is a proxy in a war between Russia and NATO.

        Which Russia can stop at any time by LEAVING THE SOVEREIGN SOIL OF ANOTHER NATION.

      • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
        57·
        8 months ago

        Literally never addressed Nazis in the west. Not one bit. Why’d you bring it up?

        The point I did bring up is that the soviets also secured rocket engineers, and undoubtedly would have loved to have von Braun and similar.

        And beyond that, as the original comment was discussing Russians in Ukraine, which they obviously are. Even if it is a proxy war, it is a just one because Russia kicked it off with a flaccid attempt on kyiv. Edit and NATO is backing Ukraine. If Russia pulled out tomorrow the evil NATO certainly wouldn’t chase them into classic Russian territory.

          • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
            26·
            8 months ago

            They didn’t use the command structure you’re referring to because they didn’t get them. Very silly assuming they just ignored them because of some principled stance.

            Agreed communism is incompatible with fascism but that’s historically convenient because Stalin was a wolf in sheep’s wool on that topic. His government modeled many fascist behaviors quite readily.

            Edit also I’d say declaring the workerbee vs command distinction is a clear goalpost move.

            I asserted that the soviets took Nazi scientists and technologists, and they did.

              • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
                24·
                8 months ago

                And in the spirit of conversation, I acknowledge NATO is not some benevolent entity against all evils. I just find the kneejerk too much sometimes.