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There should have been 120 men in each of the battalion’s companies, but some companies' ranks dropped to only 10 due to deaths, injuries and desertions, he said
92% attrition rate.
I’d be deserting too.
Soldiers acquitted of desertion due to psychological reasons set a dangerous precedent because “then almost everyone is justified (to leave), because there are almost no healthy people left (in the infantry),” she said.
Grim.
well duh I have the obvious Democrat focus-grouped solution: change the definition of a battalion company to 10 men
idiots. god
Real Catch-22 they set up there
“But what if all the other soldiers wanted to desert too?”
“Then I’d be a damn fool to think anything else!”
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions.
That's some catch, that catch-22
I'm surprised there are people who don't desert tbh
Bro if ANY government kidnapped me from the streets and made me fight an optional war then my only goal in life would be to Sabotage the war effort.
dude right? if they give me any kind of weapon it will be immediately used against them
maybe ukraine should capitulate idk
This whole pointless war could have ended two years ago if they did, but their western masters won't let them 
Death to America, death to the west
Broken men and people, coming back to a broken country, possibly to create broken families.
All this under the insatiable thirst for blood of the bourgeoisie.
Fighting and dying to feed the bourgeoisie's thirst for proletarian blood, when we should be fighting and [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] 
[This desertion crisis] comes as the U.S. urges Ukraine to draft more troops, and allow for the conscription of those as young as 18.
The US suggests implementation of vigorous structural adjustments programs in Ukraine to unlock yet-untapped youthful innovation and dynamism in the latter's thriving meat-processing industry.
huh? but I thought Ukraine won the war 5 times already?
-the average redditor