Aggression against recruitment officers has become increasingly threatening, police say.

Aggression against recruitment officers has become increasingly threatening, police say.

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  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    42·
    6 days ago

    And yet it uses the neologism “busification” that you can for sure see plastered on pro-Russia communities.

    Exactly the sort of emotionally evocative word game that is, if not coined by conservative propagandists, then eagerly exploited. For example when those feel-don’t-think phrases appear in the BBC.

    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
      5·
      5 days ago

      Did you even bother to read? It’s literally in quotes because it was used by Ukranians themselves in this article.

      Military analyst Ivan Stupak agrees.

      “We started to suffer a lack of manpower on the battlefield, constant losses,” he recalls. “Ukraine’s high command had to refill these losses so they started busification.”