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plorkyeranyesterday at 5:11 AM1 replyview on HN

If you can’t get volunteers for a defensive war then that says a lot about how much the people living in your country value its continued existence.


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subsistence234yesterday at 7:00 PM

The regime spent the past 50 years teaching everyone that their nation is just a source of shame and at best just a meaningless social construct, and that their culture and people's history is trash, that really nothing about it is worth saving.

And now the regime wants them to voluntarily sacrifice their lives for it.