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A small mercy of losing your country to oligarchs is that you’re under no obligation to save them from themselves. Well, until the mandatory conscription stage, anyway.

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WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
That’s history repeating once again. The rich abuse the poor, pick a fight, conscript the poor and are then shocked when the abused farmers would just stand aside when the attack came. Smart nobility knew this is a two way even street.

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- bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  When did that happen (the abused farmers standing aside)?
  
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  - WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    everything-everywhere.com/the-1917-french-army-mu…
    
    I should also note that the mutinies were not violent. They didn’t attack their officers. They often just refused to move or attack.
    
    Simple desertion happens a lot more. Mutiny is also common enough. But this is the cleanest standing aside.
    
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