Context elsewhere shows that he was conscripted by Ukraine. In this message, they leave some plausible deniability.
We avoided specifying the country or war to avoid involving GrapheneOS in a debate on forced conscription in an existential defensive war.
Definitely Ukraine, this is the language used when discussing Russian SMO from the Ukranian govt. side. The war of attrition will continue to have disastrous, existential effects on Ukrainian society unless the Ukraine comes to the negotiating table. At this point, being under full Russian occupation would be a better fate than the current situation (US neocolonial extraction of ukraine’s natural resourcs, nazification embedded within the govt, many citizens fleeing abroad and may never return at this point after years).
I use GrapheneOS on my resale Pixel 7a as it’s the closest I can get to my own computing while also not being cut off from society demanding I download the latest app spyware to participate.
i’ve wanted to run it but I was always afraid i’d end up with a useless phone that can’t even connect to my work stuff which is mostly what i use my phone for anyway
I wonder if the US or other Western countries have done any specific targeting of people they don’t like in Ukraine for conscription. Like could they have told Ukraine to not exempt this guy from conscription because GrapheneOS goes against US interests of having everyone running Google spyware on their phones? I’m just making it up but I’d imagine Ukraine has a lot of people in it still that aren’t ready to just be American tools.
I think they’re just conscripting everyone they can get their hands on at this point.
yeah seems likely
