[harwood]

This happens on schedule - of no import

[RC one]

Interesting. That’s a bold move.

[StormEye]

What a chaotic mess!
And Obama and his Democrats are largely to blame for it.
Also Hillary and her Democrats too.
And I include all those who voted for Obama.
Frankly, there is now really no solution to it but war.

[rwoodward]

I thought the Iranians were gonna be our friends?
John Kerry promised they would be nice to us?
Should we send more money or enriched Uranium what?

[InMemoriam]

Putin suddenly trains fifteen new divisions, while Obama is ordering the Army to “make it so” for lady Rangers.

I think that about a hundred years ago, when this also happened during a time of tension, it was reported as “Russia mobilizes”. How’d that turn out; anybody remember?

[EternalVigilance]

[VerySadAmerican]

Drafting 150,000. That tells me he’s in it for the long haul.

[grania]

I'll bring it up again. The CIA is not supposed to be training rebels to fight Assad. The US and the other countries have assured us they're fighting ISIS.

This lends credence to the assertions that the US does not want to destroy ISIS.

[tumblindice]

69% of Russians polled against Russian military involvement in Syria. That’s probably about as much as Americans having no confidence in our leadership.
Let’s just wait out Barry’s last year, doing damage control until we can send him on his way and then grownups can work it out.
In the meantime it looks like a lot of murderous maniacs who believe dying gets them into Paradise are getting their wish, and that can’t be a bad thing. It’s too bad a lot of normal people are suffering while they get what they want.

[Krosan]

Daily Mail is just making headline magic. Russia has general conscription although many avoid it so conscription calls like that happen multiple times every year. They have 1 year conscription so they are releasing the same amount.

According to the chart below there should be ~700k 19 year old males in Russia now, so this 150k is only ~20% of them.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Population_Pyramid_of_Russia_2009.PNG

[SJackson]

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Our President is sympathetic, he'd like to call up 150,000 to fight right wing gun owners.

[Jan_Sobieski]

This has the trappings of a desperation move on Russia’s part. Putin could have mobilized for Ukraine, but NATO pushed back. Putin needs to win the coveted Middle East Petro-Ruble or Russia is sunk. Watch for this to escalate to Psalm 83 and then Ezekiel 38-39