Comment by kace91
4 days ago
The included descriptions of the battle’s aftermath are haunting.
As much as movies and documentaries usually reflect the horrors of combat itself, they rarely deal with the aftermath - not lights out in an adrenaline fueled moment, but lying for hours in a random patch of land no longer having a mouth, trying to cry for help knowing that no one will come until dying from exposure and maggots.
This was the reality for millions of young people; still is. Let’s hope we never see it firsthand.
These days there are drone recordings of wounded soldiers in Ukraine sometimes ending their lives using a hand grenade or their gun.
And several weeks ago whole Russia celebrated a video of knife fight between an Ukrainian soldier and a Russian soldier lost by the Ukrainian who at the end dies from his wounds.
The video of the russian drowning in a ditch.. haunting..
Such deformity and mutilation may result from an errant jump on a dirt bike. I intend to fly because it is there, it is the right of children to be free. Do a flip. And, yes, some will break a jaw or crush a testicle like a grape. We are not meek souls.
You point out agency yourself, which is indeed the differentiator. Combatants in wars are rarely on the battlefield by their own choice or design.
Everyone has a choice.
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Okay? What a weird flex. How does this relate to anything being discussed?