Very true. And if you stop and think about it, 2033's only 10 years away. Maybe Metro.co.uk could post a followup to this story then. Just for that "Yo dawg, I herd u like 2033" meme potential.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago

And if you stop and think about it, 2033's only 10 years away.

yo wtf

[–] DarkGamer@kbin.social 78 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The brain drain and pointless bloody war will continue until morale improves.

[–] TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or the nation fucking implodes into a power vacuum 🤷‍♂️

[–] DarkGamer@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder what the world will do if that happens again. UN peacekeepers to oversee elections?

Whatever form Russia takes next should not have a seat on the security council.

[–] TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

UN peace keepers are only gonna be an option if they don't do "Fall of the Union 2: putins boogaloo" and go full civil war

[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

I'm sure he wasn't planning on returning anyway.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 39 points 1 year ago

Glad he's okay and not in Russia anymore. Makes playing his games a lot more enjoyable.

He's a great storyteller

[–] vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great books by the way!

[–] godless@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

2033, yes.

2034 felt disjointed to a point I wasn't even sure it was written by the same person. Gave up reading eventually, about 1/3 in.

[–] docwriter@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 1 year ago

I had the exact same experience. I love 2033, but I couldn't finish 2034.

[+] Blursty@lemmygrad.ml -45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

and the pretexts under which it [the invasion of Ukraine] was started look more and more insignificant and false.’

Really? In what way? More and more people are learning about the origins of the war all the time.

[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The origin of this war is that Putin wants to restore the Soviet Union and thought Ukraine is easy prey, because of revolutionary forces within Ukraine and because his collaborators lied to him. They then continued to invade with limited success, thanks to low morale, aged tactics and corruption in their badly equipped military. Now Russians die in the thousands not because of Ukraine, but because of him.

[–] cooljacob204@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No point in feeding the troll. Look at his profile, it's a either a Russian in denial or an extreme case of tankie.

[–] BeegYoshi@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

pretty much everyone from lemmygrad and hexbear dismiss anything from any western outlet as propaganda while uncritically spouting insanity from the putin regime or the ccp.

i saw someone unironically posting about "democratic dictatorship" yesterday. good times

[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Have you seen the profile of that guy? I fear he's dead serious.