Young Russian soldier cries as the local residents of Sumy tell him that he is not welcome in....

[steve2470]

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Young Russian soldier cries as the local residents of Sumy tell him that he is not welcome in their country

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[LakeArenal]

1. Young kids sent to war while white tyrants use them as pawns.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

6. White tyrants using them as pawns?

How about just tyrants using them as pawns, like the child soldiers were used as pawns during the Nigerian civil war.

Don't make this about racism, because this ain't it, it's a madman, Putin, attacking another country, not because of race, but because he's bat shit crazy.

[Carlitos Brigante]

11. "while" nt

[MarineCombatEngineer]

16. Re-read the post.

Young kids sent to war while white tyrants use them as pawns.

[Carlitos Brigante]

20. Oh shit "while white". I read "white" and missed "while". So assumed typo. Or

something. Gotta get my eyes checked.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

21. See post #18, it's not a typo and it was explained by what was meant.

[Carlitos Brigante]

23. Just edited. And getting worried about my eye sight. So yeah. It

seems like a weird distinction to make.

[Kid Berwyn]

14. "White Tyrants" is apt.

(Left to Right) George V of Great Britain, Wilhelm II of Germany, and Nicholas II of Russia.



Look at these three, cousins, who opted to launch what would become World War 1 rather than work out power sharing with their people — who overwhelmingly wanted no part of war. Now, Putin fancies himself a Czar.

https://www.amazon.com/King-Kaiser-Tsar-Three-Cousins/dp/0802716237

[MarineCombatEngineer]

15. Irrelevent,

young soldiers have always been used by tyrants, rather white, black, asian, etc., this isn't about racism, this is about a maniac illegally attacking a sovereign nation.

[Kid Berwyn]

30. Putin is a white supremacist, a genocidal mass murderer.

From 4 years ago…

In Putin’s Circle, Obama Was the 'N-Word’

By Richard Prince
The Root, 3/16/18

Russian President Vladimir Putin was so contemptuous of Barack Obama that Putin’s aides, if not Putin himself, would refer to the United States’ first black president using the N-word, according to a just-released book by two investigative reporters.

Michael Isikoff, now chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News, and David Corn, Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones, also cite information indicating that Donald Trump, who had claimed that Obama was not born in the United States, vied with Putin in his hatred of the 44th president. They report on a controversial dossier that said Trump hired prostitutes to defile space where the American president and first lady had slept.

“Putin and his inner circle had nothing but utter contempt for Obama and his administration — much of it cast in racist terms,” Isikoff and Corn write in “Russian Roulette: : The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump.”

“Putin and his top advisers routinely denigrated Obama and his national security team as ‘weak’ and ‘indecisive’ — and then, contradictorily, blamed him for meddling in Russia’s internal affairs. In Putin’s presence, Obama would be called a ‘monkey,’ and it was not uncommon for the American president to be referred to as the N-word.”

Continues…

https://www.theroot.com/putins-circle-considered-obama-the-n-word-1823832442

[LakeArenal]

18. I'm associating with the white men right here in the US

Sending young men of all races to war. Illegal wars in my life. We don’t force children here we just have drafted them when they won’t volunteer.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

19. Ok, fair enough.

[LakeArenal]

22. Thanks

[yardwork]

24. Given the history and many ethnicities of Russia, I think it's an accurate characterization.

Many of the poorer people in Russia are of ethnicities that might be considered "non-white."

[BootinUp]

2. When this gets around

in Russia, how will the people there react.

[Eyeball_Kid]

4. Russian citizens know. They have no reason to hate Ukrainians.

Putin is destabilizing his own country by invading UKR.

And he hasn't seen the worst of it yet.

[70sEraVet]

5. It probably won't 'get around' in Russia.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

7. Don't count on it, the Russian people are resourceful, especially the younger generation,

who are much more tech savvy.

[Carlitos Brigante]

3. Could someone translate? nt

[LisaL]

10. Appears to be a lot of swearing.

NT

[TheBlackAdder]

33. Comrade Cheney said to us, "my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators."

[DFW]

47. I couldn't make out all of it

But the general gist of it was what are you doing here, you are not wanted here, and the word дурак (fool) was shouted in there somewhere.

[Aristus]

8. It's not like we were any different.

When we blitzkrieged Iraq and the Iraqis started fighting back, the reaction was: “They’re being MEAN to us! They’re supposed to be GRATEFUL!”

One of these days, we’re going to learn from all this unwarranted aggression…

[Tom Rinaldo]

12. There are similarities and differences

For example, initially, the vast bulk of Iraq's army did not offer real resistance to the American invasion. They had little real loyalty to Iraq's government, which needless to say, was not popularly elected. Americans totally botched the initial occupation phase, among other blunders. Russia is being totally resisted from day one.

[jeffreyi]

13. I was thinking the same thing this morning.

We were the naked aggressors in Iraq. And who benefitted from that. Shame, shame, shame. It's time for humanity to grow up, or just go away. BTW, Ukraine has titanium, uranium, iron, other juicy mineral resources.

[yardwork]

27. I took that as the point, actually.

All over the world rich people who grabbed power start wars, and everybody else suffers, including the soldiers.

When I was a kid my parents knew a German family. The man had been conscripted into the Nazi army during WWII. He'd served on the eastern front, against Russia. He was lucky to survive. He didn't want to be a Nazi soldier. He was just a kid.

[Kaleva]

28. And today they still want us there

They were especially grateful for our presence when ISIS was expanding it's territory

[Aristus]

31. Roadside bombs are a rather odd way of saying

“We want you here. Please stay.”

No. We’re well out of it now. And if they’re so afraid of ISIS, they can use their IED’s against them.

[Kaleva]

35. That was years ago and we maintain a sizeable force their today

It's extremely rare to hear of an American killed or wounded in Iraq for sometime.. and let's not forget the Kurds, who are a sizeable minority in Iraq, want us there too.

Iraq is a nation created by Great Britain and France after WWII with no regard to the hodgepodge of clans, tribes, ethnic groups and religions of the people's who found themselves inside the newly drawn borders. Your average Iraqi is more likely to be loyal to his or her tribe or clan then to the nation of Iraq itself.

[Aristus]

36. I agree. And I do have a great deal of sympathy for the Kurds.

Leaving them in the lurch was a really bad idea.

Invading Iraq was just one bad idea in the whole string of bad ideas that began with drawing an arbitrary border around mutually-hostile peoples. Thanks for nothing, Winston...

[FSogol]

9. No one threw roses at him? He wasn't wlecomed as a liberator?

[gay texan]

17. Poor kid

He's scared shit-less. He probably just saw some innocent person blown to bits. Every fiber of his being is telling him that this is wrong.

I feel sorry for him. He's being forced to do something that he doesn't want to do.

The only thing he has left now is tears, he will never be the same.

While my dad won't talk about Vietnam much, I have to wonder if he had a moment like this. Mom has told me that he left happy go lucky and returned a completely different person.

I fucking hate war and the bullshit reasons humanity finds to get into them.

[yardwork]

25. I agree.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

26. ....

I fucking hate war and the bullshit reasons humanity finds to get into them.

I could not agree more.

I hope they didn't harm this young soldier, all he wants to do is go home.

The kind thing to do would be to feed this young Russian and take him to the Ukrainian authorities for processing.

[Delphinus]

34. Agreed.

I hope that is what they did.

[crickets]

39. This.

I'm wondering how old he really is. The whole situation is so very sad.

[betsuni]

42. +1

[Raine]

43. Poor kid was my first thought too. 😣 nt

[moondust]

29. "But...but...I'm here to liberate you

from the evil Nazis committing genocide against you. You should be thanking me and our great leader for our heroism."

Stand by for continuing Sputnik coverage of the Great War of Oblast Liberation.

[msongs]

32. could be staged propaganda, after all its on twitter nt

[lame54]

37. Shhh...

Don't out them for it
This is Guerilla warfare

[Rhiannon12866]

38. Twitter replies:

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[jmowreader]

40. You can just imagine what this poor kid is thinking

"I only graduated from Basic Training two weeks ago. Last week they handed me 210 rounds of ammunition and told me I was coming here. You don't want me in your country? That makes two of us!"

[steve2470]

41. apparently some of the troops are being told they are going to the Donbas region

A rumor I read on Twitter said, supposedly, 500 troops mutinied when they realized they were going to Kiev. I didn't post that one, just seemed a bit too good to be true for Ukraine.

[alphafemale]

44. That posture shows the scared, over-whelmed child he still very much is.

I hope they let him take off that uniform and then gave him something to eat.

[AntiFascist]

45. Brainwashed soldiers paying the price for Putin's megalomania n/t

[Deminpenn]

46. Interesting

He's not being captured or killed, just getting an angry lecture from older adults. Like a parent might yell at one of their kids who just did something bad or stupid. The soldier is acting the same way, like a remoseful son who knows what he did was wrong.

[JI7]

48. Not everything has to be about the US . The Russian soldier is a victim of Putin

most Russians have already been suffering . And he starts this war for his ego .