• Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    Such a tough and heartbreaking situation. Of course I’m pretty sure most of us would like to think we’d step up if our country was brutally attacked but I honestly have no idea what I’d do. Facing seemingly endless meat waves would be hell by itself let alone thermobaric bombs and drones.

    • ArcaneGadget@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      No fucking way. I ain’t gonna’ die fighting for the inflated egos, of the morons in charge of the world powers and their ass-lickers. I’d gather up my loved ones and leave in a heartbeat, if my country started forced conscription. I’m not enough of a nationalist to die “for king and fatherland”, no matter how much i like this little country.

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        5 months ago

        You don’t have to be patriotic to end up stepping up. When you see the shit Russia did to the Ukrainians in the areas they annex in 2014, it’s easy to see why people wouldn’t want that to happen to their family, and why they’d be willing to step up.

      • Repple (she/her)@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        There have been times in my life when I would have fled, and times in my life when I would have fought. Never for the idea of country, but certainly for the people in the country. I’m a middle aged American woman and having no family anymore, I have considered fighting for the families of Ukraine. Though not too seriously and I don’t even know if they’d take me

    • barsquid@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      I’m not fighting for this shithole country unless I am fighting against MAGAs instead of for MAGAs.

    • HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      (Completely different country here, no present risk.) The unfortunate reality for me is that I have three kids who might be called up if the shit hits the fan, and I’ve had 30 odd years longer on this planet.

      If its not me, it’s my kids.

    • invisiblegorilla@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      Fight someone else’s war…? And risk my life??. Fuck fighting for ‘my country’ - or some prick who might be in charge of it today. Its a fucking parasite that squeezed me for everything it could get, and relentlessly continues.