Posted on 09/22/2022 6:56:32 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
Summons delivered to eligible men at midnight. Schoolteachers pressed into handing out draft notices. Men given an hour to pack their things and appear at draft centres. Women sobbing as they sent their husbands and sons off to fight in Russia’s war in Ukraine.
The first full day of Russia’s first mobilisation since the second world war produced emotional showdowns at draft centres and even signs of protest, while it appears Russia could be considering far more than the 300,000 new conscripts claimed by the defence minister, Sergei Shoigu.
One woman in a small village in the Zakamensky region of Buryatia, in eastern Siberia, said she first felt something was amiss when the dogs began barking about midnight.
In a community of 450 people, the village head was walking from house to house, seeking to hand out more than 20 draft notices. As men gathered before departing the next morning, she said, some drank vodka, while others hugged and told each other to stay safe. Women cried and made the sign of the cross over the small minibus that carried them away.
“It’s not a partial mobilisation, it’s a 100% mobilisation,” said Alexandra Garmazhapova, president of the Free Buryatia Foundation, an activist group that has reported on the draft in the region. In the past day, she said, she and her colleagues had received and identified more than 3,000 reports of povestka, or draft papers, being delivered in Buryatia within just 24 hours of Vladimir Putin announcing the draft.
Despite assurances that Russia would be seeking men who had recently served in the army and had combat experience, activists pointed to a number of cases of men in their 50s receiving draft notices.
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no it’s not. Putin did NOT want to do this...if he did why did he wait until after he got routed?
I swear some people are looking at this with blinders on. When Putin got kicked out of Kiev people were saying it was his 3D chess to lose troops there and have them get cancer from Chernobyl. All part of his master plan.
Will Russia end up winning? Or partially controlling more land? Not sure...they could. But to say the past month has been anything but utter defeat is lying to yourself.
So no you never served ;-)
Got it. Keep reading Tom Clancy and thinking you know military strategy. LOL
Iphone or Android spell-correct.
Seen it a million times...
Run your mouth, keyboard warrior.
> Nicholas II had to abdicate because units on the eastern front refused his orders. <
Nicholas also made the mistake of garrisoning St. Petersburg and Moscow with second-rate, demoralized units. Had he used elite units instead, things might have turned out differently.
I doubt if Putin will make that same mistake.
“You swallow whole the Western/EU/UK/US/NATO propaganda ridden media spewage with open abandon but can’t accept any other sources.”
Back at you: Please list the Western/EU/UK/US/NATO sources YOU accept.
NONE of them!
The fog of war. No one knows the truth. It will be years before we understand what is happening. Do not trust what BOTH sides say. This game will be decided on the field of battle. It will be bloody and awful, as all wars are. If I was a betting man, my money would be on Russia and Putin. They win in the end.
Must have gotten their downloads from CNN and MSNBC...
You don’t understand how the Russian reserves work. The guys who had experience of being deployed to actual war are preferred. They actually called to drills time to time. And nobody in their 40s are called, unless officers. From that I know they are all under 35 according to already compiled lists. The number of volunteers by far exceeds their numbers. In Tuva and Chechnya there is a real stampede by the recruiters, so many people want to fight. Thousands of volunteers arrive from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
“What kind of sentence structure is that?”
Norse Viking is Russian. English is not his native language.
So you did not serve. Got it.
You sound like those that almost joined. Lol.
True enough, need to switch the laptop on:)
Many of us post on our smartphones or tablets.
Of course he never served. He let those better than he do the job he shirked.
Destabilizing Russia into Nuclear War may actually be the plan. The 2019 Rand Corporation Strategic plan lays it out. Countries always get the leadership they deserve!
“NONE of them!”
Then stop slamming those who don’t accept YOUR sources.
It has long been fashionable to dump on Neville Chamberlain, and maybe with some justification - but the fact is England was in no position to fight a war in 1940, and it wasn’t even close. He was probably trying to buy time.
Assad used the Republican Guard to defend Damascus. The troops are Assad Loyalists. They probably saved his @$$ until he was able to get reinforcements from his allies (Hezbollah, Iran and Russia).
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