Posted on 09/21/2022 9:59:35 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Russian airlines have stopped selling tickets to Russian men aged 18 to 65 unless they can provide evidence of approval to travel from the Ministry of Defense.
All flights from Russia to available foreign destinations were sold out Wednesday after President Vladimir Putin declared a “partial” mobilization of the country’s 25 million reservists.
Flights from Moscow to the capitals of Georgia, Turkey and Armenia — which do not require visas for Russians — for Sept. 21 were unavailable within minutes of Putin’s announcement, according to Russia’s top travel planning website aviasales.ru.
By noon Moscow time, direct flights from Moscow to Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan had also stopped showing up on the website.
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Or, this is the end of the “special military operation”, and the start of something more like a military operation. No more militarized police units, to be replaced with infantry and arty.
The Ruskies are having their plebiscite in the regions they control, which, yeah, will be a sham, but will give them (internal) cover to consolidate the territory that they’ve always said they’ve wanted, and then turn their attention to their two other stated goals. Forever foreclosing Ukraine’s entry into NATO, and “De-Nazifying” the Uke government. This last doesn’t have to be a Russian-controlled puppet regime, they’ll probably settle for a neutered and generally pro-Russian regime, with nominal independence as long as they mind their p’s and q’s.
“War could of been avoided if not for zelensky.”
Zelensky was not president of Ukraine in 2014 when the war started.
War could have been avoided if the Minsk Accords had been adhered to.
They would not be recruiting in prisons if they had volunteers. Nor would they be short of manpower in regular Russian units in Ukraine if they had volunteers either.
Note that the lack of manpower is something the Russians have admitted for almost six months now.
An “excess of volunteers” is absurd; it is impossible to square with facts.
Re LR/DR, its a “planned move” that should have been executed nine months ago. It was an absurd situation. It is the result of cretinous leadership.
We are free to ask questions and other people are free to ignore our questions.
Just like you’re both free to ignore this very post of mine. It won’t bother me if you do.
No, but Trump encouraged the clown sit down and talk with Russia, but instead he crossed his arms and turns away. He was never interested in peace. He’s just like Trudeau, a frontman for the NWO.
Europe has been shaking off some of the delusions of “green” hysteria. Its not all there yet, far from it, but the trend is good. You should be happy for them.
The US is still more afflicted by the green religion. It cannot throw this off as easily (!) as Europe, because “green” is an essential part of the identity of one side of the American tribal war. Your elite cannot entertain rationality because it would weaken them in the existential fight against the people.
We know what Russia wants in exchange for peace. But what is Russia willing to give up for peace?
I ask as the Russian proposals are consistently one sided.
You can’t serve in the Russian military with the history of conviction.
The shortage of manpower in field is the result of expanded goals.
The original was the liberation of Donbas and Lugansk which Ukraine rejected, meaning it is now the war to the end.
The existing force is enough to kick butt, but not enough to hold gains as evident by Harkov situation.
You can’t remove forces elsewhere because other threat may emerge.
How could you incorporate militia before their states entered the union?
From what I can gather, it’s the areas holding referendums by the ethnically Russian people to become part of Russia. The west should of stayed well out. Now we’re getting serious threats of nuclear war which is bad idea for all.
They offered a lot under Minsk agreements. Then under Istanbul talks. What is the point of offering anything if Ze is not going to fulfill it?
Trump was perfectly capable of laying down the law to Putin. Trump was the first to actually start arming Ukraine, against the policies of the Obama administration and of the EU. Trump was against German-EU dependency on Russian gas.
When Trump, feared and respected (whatever the MSM said), was removed, every black hat on earth correctly perceived US weakness. Putin got Nordstream II and, it seems, a tacit OK from the Euros and the Biden administration. Biden went to the Saudis to mitigate world oil price problems they, good friends of Trump, laughed at him.
Putin went ahead, assuming a done deal apparently. The Ukrainians, however, were not on board, and successfully resisted. Then a massive public reaction in, especially, Europe, forced even the German elite to reconsider.
It’s fun to mess with folks who can’t
cope with other opinions.
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Yep.... and what was said, not their recollection.
They’ll settle for an outcome that saves face and allows Putin to remain in power, because they aren’t going to be in any position to demand more than that.
Because the actual demand was demilitarization and a promise to be a puppet state. Ukraine wants to be in the EU, it wants to be a modern civilized country not run by despots.
It may surprise you to learn that Europe is NOT run by despots. The popular will is heard.
There were things that happened over there that would make the most horrific of horror movies look like ice cream socials.
And plenty of them are doing great work - not necessarily on the front.
Some of the best snipers in the field are women (on both sides as it happens!)
A Ukrainian lass I know speaks six languages fluently, and was working as a private tutor this time last year. She arrived in our town as a refugee in March, picked up on the news stories about the AFU training in the UK, contacted the agency supplying admin staff, and bingo - she ended up translating for the MOD.
Now she’s now gone back to Ukraine and is working as a military interpreter.
The agency she worked for provides translators to embassies, NATO, the United Nations, and the European Union.
In the last 2 weeks, 7 out of the first 20 adults who came to my tiny town at the start of the war (her included), from eastern Ukraine, have gone back home.
Willingly.
2 are men who came here with their families and were never planning to stay anyway, but the other 5 are women who came alone and didn’t think they could contribute anything meaningful to the war effort until after they got here.
All five found jobs, bought a few Bayraktars between them, learnt new skills, supported their folks back home with money, and they are now going back to do their part - brimming with optimism and confidence.
It is a strange route to Europe, with banned media and opposition, and half of the country indoctrinated to hate the other half, all of the above enforced by brown shirs allowed to kill with impunity.
“Expanded goals”?
Every regular unit in the Russian Army has already been identified in Ukraine. They have even drawn garrison units from every border, including those assigned to, say, hold down Dagestan or watch the Georgian border.
If your army cant hold ground it cant “kick butt”, because it cant attack in any significant way. It leaves the enemy with the initiative, and the ability to, say, cut your supply lines, as the Ukrainians did. As in cutting the main railroad route into Luhansk/Donets (from Belgorod, the MSR), and putting the other under fire. There is only the line from Crimea fully functional, and its trucks from there.
As for the rest, excuses. Bureaucratic bumpf.
Doesn’t that sound like the US?
In some ways I am less hopeful for the US than Ukraine.
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