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I was in the military at the October 2022. Russian ofc. I know how it been and can approve - nothing was forced, and no one was busificated.
Well if you got the ticket tho (which means you was in military in the past, and have legal obligations to protect the country) and refused without a proper reason (e.g. being sick, physically bad condition, kids to feed, etc), you will be charged later, yet still no one will send you into military against your will.
I'm an ex-military (both the mandatory one - I go there myself immediately at 18 - and the contract one later), and at 2022 was on the once-per-year training for the reserves. We have two types of those reserves, one is where every over 18 man in Russia exist by default, if he served in the military before that is (or have m specialization, like a doctor, completed military training at the institute, etc.), and the other one you must sign-in yourself. First one is just a formal thing and serves for a total mobilization purposes at war times (which is not now, it's a special operation) or like in 2022, for a one time mobilization for the back-lines defenses (e.g., liberated cities patrolling). These people are mostly never trained in their whole life, after they've ended a mandatory service in army (1 year). The second one, which is called just "the reserve for mobilization" ("Mob Rezerv") mostly requires multiply years of military experience, and signing a contract specifically for it, those are being trained each month for couple of days, and each year for a month.
So, basically I was in the second one, at 2022.
The usual training had started, in a military base which hosted it for us, and in few days we got the message, that mobilization is about to happen. We honestly thought we will be called with 100% probability - after all, it's what we are for.
But at the end, I was not, and my whole group was not. They just decided that we are not needed, that's all. Most of us just volunteered personally later, many of us are already at home.
Seems irrational, but it's actually pretty logical, because 2022's mobilization only wanted around 300k people. That's a pretty low number, that's why so many signed people just got auto-rejected (you still can volunteer directly tho, as a legit, fully paid contractor). Btw, people who got the ticket, was paid too, it's not a free service either. A simple soldier of lowest rank possible got paid like 3 or 4 times more than a mid salary our country having, and some one time payments of ~10 times the ms. If you died - your family gets millions, if you injured - you get cured for free in the best facilities, millions of compensations and get sent home (if you want, ofc, most people just rejecting it and keep fighting).
Less than 1% of those 300k people got any serious harm at the end, but now all are having extra cars and homes brought. Most of the "called" from the streets Ukrainians are getting sent to the front-lines immediately, and 60%+ are ended in less than 2 weeks, and all of them counted as "missing" for not to pay anything to their families. Feel the difference.
Our enemies wanted it to look like we are desperate, but we are not. We wasn't, we still not, never will be, and with or without any Western help to the Ukraine, we will and would win, it's just a question of more or less time and victims. Neither do we breaking economically.
At the end, every extra spent dollar is just another killed Ukrainian, and nothing more. A hundred bucks per one or so.
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So, without any pretense on my part of understanding what's happening in Ukraine at a sociological level, I find the kind of national Ukrainian attitude that you are describing somewhat childish, even if in a very dark and destructive way.
I do not intend to judge, I'm just describing how it feels when looked at from a distance. It looks like the attitude of an insecure teenager that dumps all the fault for the challenges of growing up and finding his own identity onto his parents. Frustrated and angry, he defines himself by subtraction (deciding whom he doesn't want to be, rather than whom he wants to be) and decides to try to emancipate himself. But he can't, because he is still a kid and doesn't have the personal structure, skills and experience to be truly self-sufficient yet. So he ends up listening to and leaning onto some dangerous and questionable false friends that promise him a better life that they can't actually secure for him.
When it happens to a person, it's usually just a phase in that person's life and it gets sorted out automatically when the person grows up, hopefully leaving behind nothing more than melancholic memories of how naive and rough (personality-wise) he or she once was.
When it happens to a Country and it's so severe that it manages to hijack the ideology of a meaningful fraction of the whole population by leveraging an inflated and wounded pride, it turns into a wide scale hallucination that brings lethal danger to that same population, suddenly lost into a fantasy that distorts reality, the perception of what is actually attainable and the perception of the cost of embarking in conflicts that cannot be won in any meaningful way.
Looking at some of the most egregious and fanatical ideologies that are expressed by some Ukrainians on social media and on the political landscape these days is at the same time scary and alienating.
Does it make any sense? Or am I far off the mark?
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