as someone in their mid 40s, there's a reason they target 15+ for recruitment. 30 years ago I bought in to all that bullshit.
if I was drafted today to fight an unwinnable war for the rich, you're damn right I'm playing it cool until I can get a grenade in the same tent or vehicle as a bunch of flag officers.
That's been an idea I've had for a long time but never really confirmed it, that main part of recruiting younger people. My uncle got drafted to go to Vietnam after he was already 30 and he despised it. I've only known two types of veterans: people who knew from birth they wanted to be a soldier, and older people who did it simply as a job or family pressure. That first group I've known have all ended up racist chuds, the second group all hate war now or they simply don't talk about it.
Younger people are consistently the most bright eyed and willing to believe liars. They assume the best of everything, they assume everything is good-faith until proven otherwise. You don't just see this with military but with younger people supporting liberals in europe as well, they believe their bullshit as long as it's presented in an astute and professional-ish way like they're used to from their academic setting.
Those reaching late thirties and early forties get over the bright-eyed shit through life experience. They've seen how much lying there is.
Also I think young people often lack the life experiences to start thinking outside the dominant ideology. I remember being a teen and believing everything pop history told me about communism even if I had a very strong anti-establishment biais and already hated capitalism. It took meeting with maoists during uni to start questioning bourgeois myths
This is true but a lot of people carry this way into even their late twenties. I see younger people getting abused in the workplace the most because they're often naive, believe bosses who are stringing them along and don't realise how much they're getting fucked. They're poor advocates for themselves who often believe just working hard is enough... To their own detriment.
Holy fuck, I'm having a moment of existential...I guess you would call it "profound historical awareness" that this is what volksturm would have been like with twitter. I absolutely guarantee that some desperate methed up SS officer employed this exact rationale in 1945 Berlin.
we are the 4th reich
Young boys and old men who feel an obligation to help and protect the young boys
Human waves
Human...stagnant ponds?
How do you even look at this and conclude anything except "oh this is just pure tragedy"
"Better them than me"
Reddit warrior with a camo water bottle beside their gaming machine asking why the universities are still open
Old men can't run away quickly
No but they can surrender fast
first fight to the death
then make coffee
so they're 43 year old zombies?
If Ukraine has necromancy at it's disposal I don't get the whole hullaballoo about aid, surely they got this in the bag? How could you lose?
No-man's-land for Old Men :kelly:
Of course he's a former br*tish officer. What're the odds he was some sort of supply officer or other rear echelon support crew? It's always the ones furthest from combat that are the most supportive.
Then again even if he was in a "combat" unit his combat experience would most likely be riding around in an mrap or heli, shooting some people that he claimed were armed, and heading back to base for boiled hunk of beef.
Also if they hold their positions to the death they won't be doing fucking anything afterwards, because they'll be facedown in the mud, dead so you can write how the brave slava Ukraini fought to the last from your comfortable London office. Put your money where your mouth is, pick up an ak, and hold that shell hole to the death you ghoul
Defense industry ghoul watches poor old men being fed to the very war machine he "analyzes" and "consults"
And he paints it as a "good thing"
Also from terf island
Everybody’s a tough guy when they’re sending someone else to be murdered on their behalf.
An army consisting of 17 year olds and 68 year olds.
This will fix issues with unemployed youth and wasting money on elder care. A great neoliberal solution.
I hate fighting a war against people under 40, it's so frustrating when they outrun my bullets
Westerners are way too proud of their view of life as disposable.
These men are survivors, meaning they'll frag their commander the moment he orders them to their deaths and surrender over the radio
Based gen-xer's showing loony zillennials how it's done 
Gene X drank from the hose and their parents neglected them. This has made them the Greatest Generation
Dude in one of these pictures looking over at an 18 year old standing next to them
Tell some lib that a Chinese government official said this and watch their outrage
Genuinely I think future historians will analyze the Ukrainian conflict through the lens of some kind of senicide. It truly has taken the volkstrum concept to a completely different level.
The average?
Bro...that's not good
Of course he of all people would say this, but come on
bro how do you make coffee after you fought to the death
set a timer on the coffee machine, easy
what a take
Bro I'm not even getting past basic I'm barely motivated enough to get in my car to do my job where i only have a minor risk of dying. Yeah if they skip training and conditioning and just give me a gun I'm doing the funny thing but I'm not going to run even a little bit fuck that
I've got an idea, let's find this Nicholas Drummond fellow, and 
Can some military person tell me if their helmets are supposed to look like they don't fit? Or are they so strapped for supplies they don't have properly fitting helmets
Wonder how many different heads those helmets have sat on in the last 2 1/2 years
They are supposed to look like this, since they are made in one size, they look out of place on thin older men though.
I was mostly looking at the dude on the left who looks like a Spaceballs extra
The Russians call him the Killer of Khmelnytskyi and speak of him only in whispers
It's the same helmet, dude's just small.
yfw hamas can get tandem charges standard issue but AFU cannot
Schörner be like
It's the dunk tank.
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