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If you're arming people that don't support your war, aren't you just provoking mutinies?

• pinewurst 5y ago
  Your troops are standing behind them with loaded guns at all times as they're being force marched into action. It chills me to the bone too.
  • GekkePrutser 5y ago
    That can't be effective in any kind of way. These forced 'soldiers' will just miss their targets and the moment they have a chance they will turn around and kill everyone that forced them. And rightly so of course. I just don't see how this will work except for cannon fodder.
    • neuronexmachina 5y ago
      According to this article from earlier this month, they basically are just cannon fodder: https://www.reuters.com/world/conscripts-sent-fight-by-pro-russia-donbas-get-little-training-old-rifles-poor-2022-04-04/ https://www.reuters.com/world/conscripts-sent-fight-by-pro-r... > Several Donbas draftees have been issued with a rifle called a Mosin, which was developed in the late 19th century and went out of production decades ago, according to three people who saw conscripts from the separatist region using the weapon. Images shared on social media, that Reuters has not been able to verify independently, also showed Donbas fighters with Mosin rifle > ... Some Donbas conscripts were given the highly dangerous mission of drawing enemy fire onto themselves so other units could identify the Ukrainian positions and bomb them, according to one of the sources and video testimony from a prisoner of war published by Ukrainian forces.
      • rightbyte 5y ago
        I am not disagreeing about that the conscript are being recklessly sacrificed. But the Mosin Nagant seems to be for rear guard use for which it is perfectly fine. I have not seen it in front line action in any video or picture, except in the sniper configuration.
• guilhas 5y ago
  Maybe most support, they are being bombed by the Ukraine gov since 2014