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‘It’s a 100% mobilisation’: day one of Russia’s drive to build its army
The Guardian ^ | September 22, 2022 | Andrew Roth

Posted on 09/22/2022 6:56:32 PM PDT by Timber Rattler

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To: NorseViking

Exactly.
This is why we can’t have anything nice


61 posted on 09/22/2022 7:38:30 PM PDT by griswold3 (There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs. – Thomas Sowell)
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To: ought-six

Then stop playing the strawman game of sources you and others do when I post up my sources, dingus? You think!?


62 posted on 09/22/2022 7:40:14 PM PDT by cranked
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To: Jan_Sobieski

63 posted on 09/22/2022 7:41:49 PM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: Freedom4US

If Britain and France had shown some fortitude in 1938 and had told Hitler to pound sand there is a very good chance September 1, 1939 would not have turned out the way it did.

Even several of Germany’s generals said that if there had been pushback against Germany’s remilitarization of the Rhineland in 1936, and a strong opposition to Germany in the Czech Crisis of 1938, Germany would have backed off.


64 posted on 09/22/2022 7:45:16 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: cranked

“Then stop playing the strawman game of sources you and others do when I post up my sources, dingus?”

Ah, so posting sources that dispute yours is a strawman? You need to go back to school, son, and take a course in elementary logic.


65 posted on 09/22/2022 7:48:18 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: ought-six

Ah, so posting sources that dispute your WESTERN/US/UK/EU/NATO sources is are inefficient, no-go, etc.

Do you even think about the stuff you post up?
Seriously.


66 posted on 09/22/2022 7:49:54 PM PDT by cranked
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To: for-q-clinton
You chirp like a garritrooper.


67 posted on 09/22/2022 7:49:55 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Timber Rattler

sounds credible.

guffaw!


68 posted on 09/22/2022 7:51:17 PM PDT by mylife (And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids...)
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To: cranked

“Ah, so posting sources that dispute your WESTERN/US/UK/EU/NATO sources is are inefficient, no-go, etc.”

You can post whatever the hell you want; and you do! Of course, when I post something that challenges your sources, you get the vapors and start name calling.

Russia used to have some very good operatives for its propaganda; it has really taken a downward slide with the likes of you.


69 posted on 09/22/2022 7:57:14 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: ought-six

He might want to learn it.


70 posted on 09/22/2022 7:59:59 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: NorseViking

“It not works this way.”

Is that so, Boris?


71 posted on 09/22/2022 8:12:24 PM PDT by sam_whiskey (Peace through Strength. )
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To: Timber Rattler; cranked

You are truly a Tard. The are calling up some reservists, not conscripts. You obviously didn’t see Shoigu’s speech. He was clear that it is a mobilization of reservists, not “draftees”. There is no secret. Both Putin and Shoigu described what would be done. You can’t even get simple things right....or is it you don’t care to get things right? Which Soros/Neocon affiliate is paying you?


72 posted on 09/22/2022 9:40:11 PM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: Timber Rattler

Looks like the despot of RuSSia is going to take his nation down into oblivion, just like the other despot did in 1945.


73 posted on 09/22/2022 10:41:08 PM PDT by Vaden (Real conservatives will not allow our wagon to be hitched to fascist Russia)
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To: Timber Rattler

“Good luck outfitting, training, and kitting out the new cannon fodder.”

Give every soldier five rounds of ammo and every other soldier one of those WWII-era boat oar rifles. It’ll be just like Stalingrad.


74 posted on 09/22/2022 10:55:42 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: ScottinVA

Gotta be comforting to the conscripts to be sent into combat areas knowing the FSB and state security forces were executing POWs and civilians weeks before.

They’ll probably revolt.

It’s one thing when rebellious soldiers have bolt action rifles. It’s another when they have full autos and machine guns. The leadership will probably put minefields and machine guns behind them as Soviet leadership did.

This 100 year old criminal gang is really getting old. People have had enough.


75 posted on 09/23/2022 2:30:17 AM PDT by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: Justa

I couldn’t agree more. The flurry of one-way flights out of Russia, along with protests across the country should be an indicator this “buildup” doesn’t have national support.


76 posted on 09/23/2022 2:52:39 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Slava Ukraini!)
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To: Bobalu

Yes.
But which Christmas?


77 posted on 09/23/2022 7:07:29 AM PDT by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: ought-six

Hindsight is always 20/20, the reason they didn’t was because the war 20 years earlier had bled France and England white. Nobody wanted a replay of that.

Keep in mind, over 19,000 British troops were killed in one day, first battle of the Somme, maybe 50,000 wounded. They’d seen this movie before, so to speak.


78 posted on 09/23/2022 11:43:02 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: Freedom4US

“he reason they didn’t was because the war 20 years earlier had bled France and England white. Nobody wanted a replay of that.”

All the more reason to nip it in the bud early. Did you know that in 1938 France had the largest standing army in the world?


79 posted on 09/24/2022 7:31:24 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: ought-six

It doesn’t work that way, that’s part of the human condition. Lots of people hoped that the spread of Bolshevism would be contained as well.


80 posted on 09/24/2022 9:49:22 AM PDT by Freedom4US
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