[SeekAndFind]

Also Russia is proposing to lift the age caps on recruitment and conscription to get more middle-aged men into the military:

See here: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/05/20/world/russia-ukraine-war/russia-moves-toward-dropping-age-limits-for-military-service?smid=url-share

[EXCERPT]

Under an amendment introduced by senior lawmakers, Russians older than 40 would be able to sign first-time military service contracts. The law would bring in more service members with in-demand specialties, such as medical workers and engineers, a statement from the lower house of Parliament said on Friday.

“Highly professional specialists are needed” to operate military equipment, the statement said, making no mention of a manpower shortage in the field.

“Highly professional specialists are needed” to operate military equipment, the statement said, making no mention of a manpower shortage in the field.

But experts say Russia is suffering from a manpower shortage as it takes losses in Ukraine.

[Brian Griffin]

Europe had made it clear that carbon fuels were going to be phased out long before the first Russian tank entered Ukraine in 2022.

Russia’s future natural gas export market is China.

[Captain Walker]

I have the sense that those itching for a confrontation with Russia have spent all of four and a half minutes thinking through where this might end up.

[Pearls Before Swine]

“We’ve always been at war with East Asia.”

[Big Brother Go to Hell]

No Soviet leader (actual or wannabe) has been so desperate for manpower since Stalin, whose Red Army conscripted Ukrainians 20-49 after “liberating” the country in World War II. Hitler’s National Socialists did the same as their Soviet Socialist estranged ideological kinfolk, recruiting old men into the “Volkssturm.”

[Leaning Right]

So Finland won’t be getting any more Russian natural gas. Lucky for them that the world’s greatest energy expert lives right next door, in Sweden. Finland should ask Greta what to do.

Side note to Finland: Be aware that her answer will probably involve magical unicorns.

[ought-six]

What’s next? The Putin Jugend?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Is Russia just stupid or are they being paid to strengthen NATO?

Because that is how you get people who were on the fence to join NATO.

[Paladin2]

Finland:

Population ~5.54 million peeps.

[Kazan]

Gonzalo Lira @GonzaloLira1968 · 19h

More confirmation of the atrocities against civilians that the Azov pigs carried out in Mariupol.

I have friends with family in the city, so I know this is true.

Don't let them gaslight you, and never forget—the Zelensky regime was deliberately killing Ukrainian civilians.