Posted on 10/25/2022 8:53:52 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Nationalist activists from the republic sent shockwaves through the Kremlin after announcing the creation of their own army.
Russian soldiers claim they have not been paid
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Vladimir Putin is facing a serious political mutiny, after Bashkiri nationalists called for independence from Russia. The demand for independence poses a threat to Russia's territorial integrity and could encourage other rebellious regions to follow suit. The Bashkirs are one of the 193 ethics minorities that populate Russia and are of Kipchak Turkic descent.
hey have their own autonomous republic in Russia, called Bashkortostan, which is located between the Volga River and the Ural Mountains in the east of the country.
There are roughly four million Bashkirs living in Bashkortostan, making it the seventh most populous republic in Russia.
Nationalist activists from the republic sent shockwaves through the Kremlin after announcing the creation of their own army.
The nationalists said they intend to fight for a "free Bashkortostan", as they seek independence from Moscow.
The move appears to have been prompted by Putin's decision to invade Ukraine, which has created tensions between the Kremlin and ethnic groups.
This is due to the fact that ethnic minorities in Russia have borne the brunt of the Kremlin's military recruitment drives for the war and suffered significant losses in the process.
Ruslan Gabbasov, a nationalist leader, told the the media publication Verstka that Putin's war in Ukraine had nothing to do with Bashkir.
The 43-year-old said: "It is not our war. Ukrainians have never done anything bad to us, but the empire has always suppressed us.
"They suppressed our native language, they imprisoned our leaders.
"Why should we now have to fight for them?"
When Putin announced his "partial mobilisation" on September 21, an anonymous channel called the “Committee of the Bashkir Resistance” was created on the social media platform Telegram.
Its cover depicts a clenched fist on a red background, with a caption under it saying: "Bashkortostan will be free!"
The administrators wrote in their first post that the channel was "created to organise national resistance in Bashkortostan against Putin's power".
They vowed that there would be "no mobilisation" in a free Bashkortostan.
Mr Gabbasov said he knew the creators of the "partisan" Telegram channel.
He said: "These are real people who are directly related to Bashkortostan."
Since the appearance of the group, there have have been a number of attacks on government buildings.
Demographics
The area settled by the Bashkirs according to the national census of 2010.
The ethnic Bashkir population is estimated at 2 million people (2009 SIL Ethnologue). The 2010 Russian census recorded 1,584,554 ethnic Bashkirs in Russia, of which 1,172,287 Bashkirs live in Bashkortostan (29.5% of the total population of the republic).
According to the latest data, Russia has $71 billion frozen assets in other countries. That is NO disposal funds. Even so for the degree of rebuilding and even sustaining the country Ukrraine would eat that up in a few months - add in how much the Government will skim off the top and it’s didly squat.
You have pinwheels-for-eyes.
Express? We’re using tabloids as news sources??
Unherd? Serious? George Soros owns 1/2 of it with Paul Marshal
Bullshit. Ukraine has refused to surrender to Russia (AKA “negotiations”).
Russia must pay, and pay dearly.
Wrong again....Minsk was agreed on by all parties including Zelensky. Then he refused to do his part.
I doubt very much Russian military soldiers would even dare to take such steps. So this is just another hit piece.
Putin is doomed. He shoulda stayed outa Ukraine.
BTW You still don’t get it this conflict isn’t about Ukraine and certainly not the people of Ukraine. It is however about using Ukraine and using it’s people by other countries that don’t want to get their hands dirty in the open.
Reminds me of other conflicts where Westeern nations use the local street brawlers and mercenaries and such to fight for them.
And your point is?
Perhaps you're unfamiliar with the idiom.
Bullshit pretexts.
This is Russian propaganda to justify a general invasion of Ukraine, which is what they actually did. Accompanied by wholesale slaughter of Ukrainians, vast devastation of property and infrastructure, and in general the work of devils.
That is the insurmountable moral burden of the pro-Russian side. The devil speaks and works through them, and they will not escape him, without a rededication to God, without a true remorse, and a massive penance, national and personal.
Putin now gets to play whack-a-mole with a hundred malcontent regional powers and the militia forces they can assemble. Each particular one might be weak, but if they all pop out of different holes at different times, and half the working army is tied down in Ukraine, what’s most likely to happen? Provocations requiring force that can only be transferred from Ukraine.
Putin was shrewd enough to get Chechen leaders and fighters on his side (at least a majority of them apparently). This goes back a long way, to Beslan, Moscow terrorist incidents of the 2000 decade, and beyond. But he’s going to have his hands full if there are multiple instances like the one discussed here. If this were the only one, it might be relatively easy to put out the fire, either buy them off or eliminate the leaders, but if there were ten or twenty (and the Russian Federation is chock full of these autonomous entities) you’d run out of ways to deal with them and some might have clout with transportation networks and power grids. To rule Russia you either have to make a lot of different people happy, or be prepared to use deadly force against a lot of enemies. If you fall between those two chairs you’re going to have a sore ass and may need something “put in” there to manage the pain.
So - what’s happening on the home front?
You happy about how we’re becoming what they claim Russia is?
You might want to look at my Post 11 before you feel the need to FReepsplain. 😏
LoL...right on!
And it's hysterical you would bring up anything “moral” regarding Ukraine's operating capability at all levels by knocking Russia.... Anything you might accuse Russia of that's unfavorable you can bet Ukraine is likewise if not worse. Two peas in a pod.
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