As I understood it, it used to be something of a given that to be a successful politician you had to have done military service. Obviously not a defense of character but I think that's why so many of them did that
Yes, fracturing is a specific term not used for just any failure. There's several terms to describe material failure modes that I'm loosely aware of but at this point wouldn't use without looking them up.
there's like a million miles between active duty troops being deployed and forced conscription of the general populace. And the comparison US/Ukraine is frankly completly context free
this is something that really bothers me, I pretty much immediately write off anyone that responds to the atrocity of the day with some variant of "nice distraction from the Epstein files"
Soldiers may have deliberately clogged sewage pipes by flushing stuff they shouldn't to interfere with deployment. Though they may have just done it from laziness or general incompetence, unclear. Probably optimistic to call it a mutiny?
I'm familiar with it as an attack used to vilify but I always believed it was an expression of hate, not a cause. And it is absolutely wild to me that someone would not be able to take the step that it was wrong even if true when considering themself (this is not being ideologically principled as much as profoundly damaged IMO)
I'm disappointed in everyone in this subthread for not trying to work trains into this.