Yes, you could die. And that's bad but your name is intact and if you survive you can go back to the before times. If you kill your own people, you ain't going home again.
The lines on a map might still be there (if only because the Big GAE will refuse to recognize they lost), but the dirt won't magically turn the new residents Ukrainian.
Yes, you could die. And that's bad but your name is intact and if you survive you can go back to the before times. If you kill your own people, you ain't going home again.
Maybe I'm naive, but I don't think that a governing body that is actively malicious towards its own citizens counts as "your people" anymore.
They know it, and that's why Jan 6th is their boogeyman.
Then why were you in the country waiting around to get drafted? Why didn't you just bounce before you could get drafted?
The lines on a map might still be there (if only because the Big GAE will refuse to recognize they lost), but the dirt won't magically turn the new residents Ukrainian.
Are they 'your own people' though? People dragging me off to die in a war I didn't ask for in a war that they provoked seem like enemies to me.