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0 pointssimonh6y ago0 comments

Most of those troops will be from rural regions. Everything they know about the wider world is told to them by state media and their commanders.

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kzrdude6y ago· 2 in thread

Can we say the same of the soldiers the US sent to Iraq?

AnimalMuppet6y ago

No. First, the US has considerably more media freedom, so they had at least the potential to access non-government-narrative sources. Second, the US has a volunteer army, not a conscript one.

kombucha116y ago

We can.

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