@bsims
That's not a moral position.
We're not talking about intelligence here. This is a threat within our society.

"... finds that just 7% of U.S. adults have an overall favorable opinion of Russia. Only 6% express confidence in its leader, President Vladimir Putin. In contrast, 72% have confidence in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy."

JUST 7%?! That's 23M people!!!!!

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2022/04/06/seven-in-ten-americans-now-see-russia-as-an-enemy/

One Ukrainian soldier ... warned that Ukrainian forces may no longer try to take Russians alive. "Now, with most of our units having the information about Mariupol and how many dead people and those horrible Bucha pictures are available publicly, nobody will capture them anymore," he said. "No one cares anymore. They're all going to go into the ground."

Ukr soldiers' attitudes are changing:

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/06/1091125305/bucha-ukraine-executions-war-crime-allegations

"Now, with most of our units having the information about Mariupol and how many dead people and those horrible Bucha pictures are available publicly, nobody will capture them anymore," he said. "No one cares anymore. They're all going to go into the ground." One Ukrainian soldier

@Render
Fuck.
Could the Ukr start hitting them from the north of Mariupol and give them some hope to survive by opening up an escape route?

@Render
Shit. I can't imagine how they could have settle on a cellphone protocol standard.

@Render
That's not fair.
They are probably still toting their tools.
Or expired MREs.

@Render
I suppose the decision is being made to either pinch them off and collect the POWs or let them vacate and go quietly into the night.
I continually wonder about the second-order impacts of inflicting retribution on the enemy.

@Render
Hopefully he's now just a little more paranoid on a daily basis. Might keep him looking over his shoulder more often and not spreading lies.

@Render
I will use a version of this joke on my wife's girlfriends - a lot.

@WeThePeople @th3j35t3r
They are probably not paying them. So, they quit. Then new ones come onboard. Repeat. And, they probably don't have an architect providing a consistent plan.

Shocking, but in a good way. The https://liveuamap.com/ map has no Red/Russian occupation zones north of Kyiv.

@Render @th3j35t3r
Once he realises that he's getting paid in rubles, he'll settle down.

@WeThePeople
I just flew SW yesterday. Yikes!

@WeThePeople
The leaders reflect the culture.

@Museek @Dane
You can't go for a drive or walk without seeing one. Mostly renovated Jaguar SUVs.

@Museek
Understood. But we're talking about American culture, correct?

I think we're going through a correction in cultural acceptance whereby a lot of disaffected people are caching in on decades of abuse by directing it at the wrong people.

@Museek
IMHO anyone that refers to themselves as We, and does so without qualifying it, is a self-righteous @#%$ and doesn't deserve to be indignant.

@WeThePeople
ok, ok, that was bunny.