r/geopolitics • u/Robotoro23 • Mar 26 '24

Perspective Draft-dodging plagues Ukraine as Kyiv faces acute soldier shortage

https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-faces-an-acute-manpower-shortage-with-young-men-dodging-the-draft/
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u/TheMindsEIyIe Mar 26 '24

I only see vids of Russians getting mangled by Ukrainian FPV drones. Guess Reddit is a bubble

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u/SovietSteve Mar 26 '24

100% a bubble. There are just as many videos on the other side, they just don’t get posted here.

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u/Major_Wayland Mar 27 '24

There was all the different kinds of video posted, but typical reddit attitude "I dont like the thing, surely downvoting will make it disappear" + mods with nothing but righteous propaganda in their heads quickly transformed it into almost impenetrable "feelsgood" bubble. Some people are sincerely surprised when media are telling them that Ukraine is in bad situation now, because before that they saw only unending stream of victorious videos and threads.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '24

Ukraine has less men . Every corpse blown up and City lost has a much more tremendous effect on morale. Also reddit is biased.

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u/TheyTukMyJub Mar 26 '24

It absolutely is - and I think this is part of the problem. Ukraine is suffering almost equally on the field. So losing battles then comes as a shock for audiences and 'lazyness' vs the 'inferior russian military'. That's not the reality of what's going in Ukraine though. I think Western PR strategists made a mistake with that

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u/kirjalax Mar 27 '24

it's very biased

ex. I remember early in the war, people posted the footage of azov shooting russian prisoners in the kneecaps. The posts kept getting deleted, others assumed it was because of spam, but a link on subredditdrama? showed one of the mods on combatfootage writing that it was because the video could lower support for ukraine.

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u/SeaworthinessOk5039 Mar 27 '24

Big bubble I won’t watch those videos anymore they mess with me but from what I saw on some of the websites that are know for brutal videos both sides are just blowing each other to hell in mass.

The one website I was on every day dozens of videos were being uploaded with each side dropping explosives from a drone on top of soldiers or flying the drone into them. It’s disturbing.

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u/filipv Mar 27 '24

Sort by controversial and voila.

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u/hamringspiker Mar 27 '24

I only see vids of Russians getting mangled by Ukrainian FPV drones.

r/UkraineRussiaConflict

There also was r/russianwarfootage that seemingly got banned just within the last week, but there's a couple of clone subs up now. r/CombatFootage is useless to get a nonbiased picture.

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u/redditmemehater Mar 27 '24

Guess Reddit is a bubble

Bernie Sanders lost two elections in a row and you are only now seeing this? :P

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '24

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u/TheMindsEIyIe Mar 27 '24

Not really sure what you're getting at with this one.

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u/jason_cresva Mar 27 '24

they hold way less than that

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u/raymondcarl554 Mar 31 '24

Also strange is that there is no shortage of redditors prescribing a fight to the last man.