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Sure, but the Ukrainians can use those 3 days to do the same thing. And the way things are, that means the Russian army loses momentum while Ukrainians gain respite (if they actually go for the ceasefire). Don’t get me wrong, I agree with Putin’s decision. It’s the right thing to do, both morally and politically. Especially for the reasons to outline (but I think in Putin’s mind he’s just trying to present some good faith on Russia’s behalf, and he’s probably hoping there’s no incident in Moscow while a bunch of BRICS leaders and other world leaders gather together). But militarily it might turn out to hurt the Russian effort more than it would help.

Winter was dedicated to all the maintenance stuff mostly, and there was mostly no other field work during that time. They had way more holidays as you say, and they also had a lot more breaks during the day. Historians have done studies on this. An average 8-hour labourer today works about 1800 hours per year, accounting for breaks and holidays. An average medieval peasant would work significantly less so. English peasants had it worse at 1600 hours. French and Germans would fluctuate at 1300-1400 hours. Italian and French would also fluctuate at 1200-1300. Byzantine peasants (whose majority were not serfs and worked on their own land) would work much less at 1000-1200 hours per year!

The point of the meme is that a modern-day wage labourer is exploited way more than a medieval wage labourer. There’s nothing there about famines, plagues and wars (which by the way only went away from Europe to an extend for the past 80 years, and there’s no guarantee that they’ll be staying away).

Also don’t forget:

Medieval peasants worked on average (depending on the area and era you are looking at) 30-60% less hours per year than present-day wage-workers

Medieval peasants who worked on someone else’s land could elect not to go to work on any particular day and just not get paid for it (that’s how weekends were created)

Medieval bosses (i.e. land-owners) were responsible for feeding their workers for the day with breakfast and lunch.

Usually lunch during field work was followed by a customary 2-3 hours nap.

Crackers be jealous that they can’t figure out how to get paid multiple wages, while ALSO getting paid multiple benefits, while ALSO getting paid mad money by peddling drugs and doing all the crime and somehow getting away with it, while ALSO somehow having the time to sit around all day on the street doing nothing and making passerbyes “scared”.

The spin in the article is so extreme that I’m getting nauseous.

Third sentence in:

It is hoped that this change in military support for Ukraine could see Moscow move its red lines to achieve a peace deal.

Yeah, as if Russia’s supposed to be thankful now that UK won’t deploy its super mighty unbeatable imperial regiments.

Then later on:

“This was always the UK’s thought. It was France who wanted a more muscular approach.”

Of course, Kid Starver just knew from the beginning that the British Army is basically an April Fool’s joke by now and definitely did not seethe and shout and froth at his general staff for telling him this was going to be suicide. And dead empire, if it wasn’t for those pesky French and their powers of seductive suggestion.

I can’t wait to see what the Baltic chihuahuas will do next once the French pull out of the “coalition of the willing” as well.

This is pretty much false. Notice how they cite “people familiar with the matter said”. That’s usually doublespeak for “nobody official, just some Western pundit who dreamt about it”.

This is probably a ploy to get Russia to deny this, so they can then turn around and say that Russia isn’t serious about peace. They are doing this to get the lights off Zelensky categorically and most publicly turning down the US ceasefire proposal given to him in the recent London talks between Ukraine and US.