is this ok?

Talking with a few exhausted soldiers in Bakhmut, just back from the frontlines. "We don't have any new weapons here, new forces, nothing," says one of them. Another, who fought in 2014: "I'm expected to fight a tank with my Kalashnikov. We're just cannon fodder. We're f*****."
https://mobile.twitter.com/NeilPHaue...13445118537729

I guess I never caught the collectivist bug

Back to trustworthy news:

https://tass.com/politics/1458035

US will not supply long-range rocket systems to Kyiv
https://www.theguardian.com/world/li...08e9126906191a

The EU should forget about sanctions – they’re doing more harm than good
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-energy-prices

oof.

I don’t remember ever saying how great life in Russia is……I’ve never even been to Russia. For the record I am not rooting for Russia. It sucks that they invaded Ukraine, I won’t justify it, it can’t be. But it is a conflict between them and I do not support interventionism in this war. It is of no benefit to the people of the US or western Europe except some vague idea that the Russians will then march across the plains of eastern Europe to Berlin and Paris. (Yawn)

Thanks, one would expect the invading Russian soldiers to be better equipped.

Neil Hauer is Canadian, this reads more like Ukrainian propaganda.
He often works for CNN like "Georgia's defiant Orthodox church will host Easter worshipers despite lockdown. By Neil Hauer, for CNN"

lol he was talking to ukrainian soldiers.
second part was also rather damning:
Very pessimistic towards Ukrainian leadership: "You have to understand that there are two castes in this country: the upper, and the lower. We're the lower. They get the money, and we're expected to just march forward and die."

Nothing in that tweet mentions Ukrainian soldiers, just your wishing it was.

OK, what do Ukrainian soldiers say? And how representative is it of the general morale?

The guy's Twitter timeline clearly suggests he is reporting from the UA side of the front.

You have to get better at Twitter, read the thread…..

Cold War era style CND protests returned to RAF Lakenheath last weekend.

BBC News - RAF Lakenheath, protestors oppose possible nuclear arms return

Useful idiots.

The protesters from way back when have gotten rather old.

It’s not “mothers against bombs” but Grandmothers against bombs.

reality always catches up to fantasy.

BS. You do not support interventionism in this war which you (apparently) find unfair? What's your attitude when an elderly or a woman is attacked by a 2 m tall thug, that "it's their conflict"? It is of benefit to the people of Eastern Europe hence all Europe because if this crazy clique in Kremlin wins now they'll continue terrorising everyone with their appetite for expansion.
I see, you want Europe back to what it used to be 30 years ago. Sorry, that ship has sailed...it's time to wake up and smell the coffee.

treat them all equally regardless of gender or age?

To be fair the BBC did feature a young guy at the Protests from the Young Communist League.

Does that translate to "let the thug make the law because he can"....

i believe its the correct answer in a western liberal democracy.
pulling out a phone and recording it for social media is probably also acceptable these days.