Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
Which will happen first:
Dimwit getting his GED or Zelensky being exiled
You almost have to feel sorry for the poor guy. It seems like only yesterday he boldly pronounced that “it’s over”, that Russia was in the mopping up stage. Look how far he’s fallen to the point of posting stuff he knows is laughably fake.
“You almost have to feel sorry for the poor guy. It seems like only yesterday he boldly pronounced that “it’s over”, that Russia was in the mopping up stage. Look how far he’s fallen to the point of posting stuff he knows is laughably fake.”
I remember reading posts back in 2022 where Zelensky was on a plane leaving Kiev with his stolen riches.
🍈 has lots of time sitting in Moscow airport as his flight has been delayed again by falling debris
🍈 meme warrior almost as effective as Russian AD😂😂😂😂😂
Well this was quick.
Kyiv Independent (July 24):
Zelensky submits new bill restoring anti-graft agencies’ independence after protests.
“President Volodymyr Zelensky submitted on July 24 a new draft law aimed at restoring the independence of Ukraine’s anti-corruption institutions.
The move follows Zelensky’s decision on July 22 to sign a different bill that effectively destroyed the independence of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO).
The controversial bill, which also undermined Ukraine’s aspirations to join the European Union, triggered large-scale protests all over Ukraine, forcing the authorities to roll back.
In a statement following its review of the new draft law, NABU said the legislation would “restore all procedural powers and guarantees of independence” for both NABU and SAPO”
Russia will likely implement new policies to augment its military administrative capacity to significantly expand the rate at which Russia can call up a larger volume of conscripts and reservists. Russian State Duma Defense Committee Chairperson Andrei Kartapolov introduced a bill to the Russian State Duma on July 22 that would change the Russian military conscription administrative process to a year-round cycle, as opposed to the current system, which only processes conscripts during Russia's semi-annual spring and fall cycles.[1] Kartapolov claimed that this change would streamline the work of military registration and enlistment offices, which would work year-round, and relieve emergency workload pressure that military registration and enlistment offices currently experience during the traditional semi-annual conscription selection periods in the spring and fall. This new system proposed in the bill does not institute new conscription cycles beyond Russia's traditional spring and fall conscription cycle periods. Kartapolov added that the new model would ensure a uniform load on military registration and enlistment offices and make the process more convenient for Russian citizens, as conscripts would be able to undergo their medical examination, obtain military occupational specialty (MOS) assignments, and complete other necessary procedures throughout the year without rushing during the traditional three-month conscription periods. Kartapolov claimed that the new model would not make the Russian military increase its conscription quotas, although the Kremlin has been increasing conscription classes over the past three years.[2]
The bill would likely mitigate bureaucratic bottlenecks that complicate Russia's force generation efforts during large-scale involuntary call-ups. Russia's military conscription registration and enlistment centers that process mobilized and conscripted personnel currently only operate for six months of the year in spring and fall to support Russia's semi-annual conscription cycles. These offices and administrative personnel rush to call up, evaluate, and process a large number of military-aged men within the six months, reducing Russia's ability to facilitate large-scale call-ups of reservists and conscripts outside of spring and fall. The law's proposal to have these processing centers operate year-round would institute a permanent military administrative bureaucracy able to facilitate Russian reserve call-ups year-round to permanently augment Russia's ability to process large numbers of mobilized personnel, regardless of the time of year. Keeping military processing centers and their staff working all year presents significant implications for the rate at which Russia can conduct mobilization, as the Russian military administration will have fewer constraints holding back the rate at which mobilized personnel can be processed and assigned to units.
The Kremlin is setting other legal conditions to facilitate the streamlining of future larger conscriptions. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on April 21 that simplified conscription procedures for military-aged men who were selected for semi-annual conscription but did not dispatch for compulsory military service.[3] The law specifies that conscripts who underwent conscription processes, such as medical commissions, but were not assigned to military service, could be called up to military service within one year without needing to repeat the conscription procedures. The Russian military's transition to a year-round conscription structure coheres with Russia's broader strategic effort to augment and streamline its force generation capabilities – a move that will have far-reaching implications for its war in Ukraine and a possible broader confrontation with NATO.
Russia has planned the gradual expansion of the Russian military since 2022, and the proposed changes to Russia's personnel processing system are likely intended to support ongoing efforts to increase the size of the Russian military. Structural problems with Russia's mobilization capacity and bureaucratic ability to process mass quantities of conscripts at one time severely complicated Russia's partial involuntary reserve call-up in September 2022.[4] Then-Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced in December 2022 that Russian military leadership planned to significantly expand the Russian military, including plans to increase the size of the Russian Armed Forces and to create new formations.[5] Russian military expansion requires an increase in the number of servicemembers, and Russia is likely pursuing efforts to increase its bureaucratic capacity to process and conscript Russians into military service. Putin ordered the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) to increase Russia‘s military to 2.38 million people in 2025.[6] Putin has signed annual decrees increasing the size of the Russian military by 137,000 in 2022 to 170,000 in 2023 and 180,000 in 2024.[7] The Kremlin has also executed other measures since 2022 to expand the Russian military, including by reopening Soviet-era military academies to rebuild the officer corps, lowering the age of conscription, digitalizing draft summonses, increasing fines for draft dodgers, lowering conscription and volunteer eligibility requirements, and recruiting prisoners and those with health issues.[8]
The expansion of Russia's administrative capacity to process conscripts and mobilized personnel would allow Russia to mobilize forces faster and more efficiently both during a protracted war in Ukraine and a possible future war against NATO. Russian citizens who have previously deferred or were ineligible for conscription may be eligible for conscription at a later date should Russian conscription legislation change. Kartapolov’s July 22 bill for a permeant conscription bureaucracy that works year-round and the April 2025 law to simplify conscription procedures will significantly reduce the bureaucratic hurdles that Russian authorities would face to process these citizens’ renewed conscription more quickly. Russia's efforts to reduce the bureaucratic bottlenecks hindering the conscription process will affect Russia's force generation mechanisms in the war in Ukraine. Putin has so far been reluctant to conduct another partial involuntary reserve call-up due to the risk of severe societal backlash, but these reforms to Russia's conscription processes would allow Russian authorities to process another potential call-up in the future more smoothly and efficiently than the one in September 2022, getting soldiers from the military enlistment and registration offices to the frontline more quickly and thus mitigating societal backlash from poor bureaucratic procedures.[9] These reforms will also put the necessary administrative infrastructure in place year-round, allowing the Kremlin to conduct another call-up at any time of the year without having to mobilize additional bureaucratic resources that would slow down the conscription process.
Reductions in the bottlenecks in the Russian conscription process would also impact Russia's ability to wage future wars. ISW continues to assess that Russia's military reforms, including the restructuring of the Western Military District (WMD) into the Leningrad and Moscow military districts (LMD and MMD), demonstrate Russia's longer-term preparation for a possible future conflict with NATO.[10] Russia's ability to more quickly conduct large-scale call-ups will have significant implications for NATO and its ability to deter or even defend against future Russian aggression.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky submitted a draft bill to the Ukrainian parliament on July 24 aimed at bolstering the independence of Ukraine's anti-corruption agencies in response to public backlash against the controversial bill that Zelensky signed on July 22. Zelensky submitted to the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) draft law No. 13533, which is designed to safeguard the independence of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAP).[20] The bill would limit the Prosecutor General's Office's ability to give instructions to SAP prosecutors and require that the deputy prosecutor general, who is also the head of SAP, approve all the Prosecutor General's Office's written administrative orders regarding SAP's activities.[21] The bill would additionally require NABU personnel with access to classified information to undergo a polygraph test within six months; prohibit most foreign travel for NABU employees during martial law; authorize NABU to receive more cases from other law enforcement bodies; enable SAP to transfer NABU cases that may jeopardize NABU’s objectivity to other agencies; and authorize SAP prosecutors to give written instructions to NABU detectives and discipline NABU detectives who refuse these orders. NABU’s and SAP's press services reported that the bill would restore all procedural powers and guarantees of independence and called on the Verkhovna Rada to adopt the bill.[22]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-july-24-2025
The entire Russia! Putin Bad! scheme you pushed since 2016 was a political diversion driven by Neocons and Democrats. Only low functioning High School graduates would fall for that nonsense
Should be interesting, increasing the size of the military while losing some 3-400k per year while hemorrhaging money to pay for it, and losing more and more revenue each day.
Seems like a realistic plan😎
China will kill all of Russia's industry!
https://bsky.app/profile/evgen-istrebin.bsky.social/post/3luriesimqs2s
Current inflationary pressures, including persistent ones, are declining faster than previously forecast, the Central Bank noted in a press release following the board of directors’ decision: domestic demand growth is slowing, and the economy continues to return to a balanced growth trajectory.
https://www.vedomosti.ru/finance/articles/2025/07/25/1126985-bank-snizil-stavku
The war in Ukraine is driving up wage costs, as Muscovites pay big bucks to get raw materials for the meat grinder. This leads to inflation, but only to a certain point because ordinary companies cannot compete with wages. Purchasing power is falling and manufacturers of consumer goods are being outcompeted by subsidized Chinese exports. Trade is falling and ordinary Russians are focusing on food and paying off loans if they can. The economy is slowing down, no one wants or can borrow money at high interest rates, and investment is coming to a halt.
The next step is for them to cut interest rates to zero or even below to get the economy going, but that won't be enough. What happens next is anyone's guess, but Putin won't be popular.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
