Posted on 09/21/2022 10:23:34 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
The imprisoned Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny has slammed Vladimir Putin and an opposition group has called for nationwide protests after the Russian leader ordered a military mobilization amid the country's recent military losses in Ukraine during a Ukrainian military counteroffensive.
Putin, in a televised address to the nation aired earlier on September 21, also warned the West that he isn't bluffing over using all the means at his disposal to protect Russia's territory.
Navalny said Putin was sending more Russians to their death for a failing war in a video message recorded from prison and released on social media by his lawyers.
"It is clear that the criminal war is getting worse, deepening, and Putin is trying to involve as many people as possible in this," Navalny said.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told Russian state media that up to 300,000 could be called up with only those with relevant combat and service experience to be mobilized.
Another clause in the decree prevents most professional soldiers from terminating their contracts and leaving service until the partial mobilization is no longer in place.
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“At least he is in prison.”
Only because he survived Putin’s assassination attempt.
Are you really trying to show the forum exactly how mentally retarded you are? Or are you secretly pro-Ukraine and trying to make the pro-Russia crowd look bad?
I can’t tell anymore.
See post #17.
Do keep up, kthx.
The dead in Kyiv.
Your point?
“Guy’s in prison for being dumb and ugly and not bathing...”
If that were true they’d have to lock up a lot more Russians than just him.
Bigoted much?
I don’t really need to make a point, you have already made the point for me by defending how Russia treats its political opposition, and has for decades before the Ukraine conflict even started.
You all’s true yatzi colors are more and more exposing themselves.....
Let me see....
Alive or dead.
Alive or dead.
Alive or dead.
Alive or dead.
Keep talking. Tell us how you really feel about patriotic American conservatives.
You ain’t one of them, for sure.
Oh, give over. We all know that Putin’s the KGB nostalgia vote, and Navalny’s the useful ethnonationalist pin-up. He’s kept around and allowed to say his piece from time to time, just like court jesters of old.
His funny imprisonment’s another brilliant bit of Kremlin PR - even when he’s in solitary confinement in the furthest harshest gulag he’s still smiling and blogging.
Sends a strong message - ethnonationalism and dissent is okay by Putin as long as he knows you’re not going to challenge the status quo and the elites.
Plenty who are far less openly critical than Putin seem to suffer from from accidentallytrippedoutofawindow-itis. It’s because he thinks they’re up to something.
Moral of the story - if you’re a useful critic, you may be kept around on Putin’s terms, but the minute he thinks you’re too much trouble you’re toast.
I guess I have to be a neocommunist to be considered “conservative” by some around here.
Explain ZelenskyyIdiot’s ‘terms’?
LOL. My thought exactly. He polled at about 5% at his prime and about 60% consider him a criminal and traitor,
No, just a bigoted neo-Yatzi, Kyiv style.
Navalny = CIA asset
Who cares what the Soros stooge thinks?
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