Thanks for sharing - so much for you “true conservatives” defending Putin and his murderous regime.
Posted on 09/22/2022 7:20:36 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” against Ukraine hit a turning point Wednesday—but not the kind the Kremlin wanted.
Instead, the Russian leader may have inadvertently put the final nail in the coffin of his decades-long reign with his bombshell announcement that hundreds of thousands of citizens will be called up to face likely death in the war next door. Advertisement
While Putin’s most loyal allies rallied around the leader with calls for unity and defense officials bent over backward to provide dubious assurances to the general public, ordinary Russians rushed for the exits and took to the streets.
Airline tickets out of the country sold out within a matter of hours. There were myriad reports of men of conscription age being barred from buying bus and airline tickets, and human rights groups reported that draft notices were already being handed out to people at bus stations and train stops in some areas.
Street cleaners and homeowners associations were reportedly tasked with delivering the notices in other areas.
Anton, a manager at a Moscow-based IT company, was nervous while waiting in line for passport control at Vnukovo Airport on Wednesday morning. He was fleeing to Armenia just hours after the mobilization announcement.
“Unfortunately, this is my war, although I never asked for it: victims of this war are my people, I have been helping suffering people; and the bastards who started this war are my enemies,” he told The Daily Beast after passing through border control.
He was constantly checking a “Border Control” group chat on Telegram, made up of about 15,000 Russian middle-class professionals making plans to escape Moscow following the announcement.
Anton’s friend, 35-year-old Alexander Koryakin, another Russian IT tech, had also left for Armenia earlier on Wednesday. Koryakin said he was now “breathing freely and thinking straight” in Yerevan.
“This war, this is definitely not my war, this conflict has been artificially blown up, Russia does not need it,” he said, adding a message for others still stuck in the country: “Run away, there will be nothing good in Russia for a long time. This is not a betrayal, this is your survival.”
Valentina Melnikova, the head of the Union of Committees of Soldiers’ Mothers of Russia, said the mobilization shows Putin only wants to escalate the war.
Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a speech during an event to mark the 1160th anniversary of Russia's statehood in Veliky Novgorod on September 21, 2022.
“Today Putin mobilizes people, tomorrow he will employ nuclear weapons, our job is to help those who do not want to serve,” she told The Daily Beast.
Hundreds of demonstrators were detained in Moscow as well as cities as far-flung as Ulan Ude, Izhevsk, Irkutsk, Chelyabinsk, and Perm, among others, according to the monitoring site OVD.info. Protests continued to erupt across the country despite prosecutors in the capital warning demonstrators they could face up to 15 years in prison for speaking out against the war.
Some of the protesters detained were subsequently given draft notices while in lock-up, according to OVD.info and Mediazona. The wife of one jailed protester told Mediazona that authorities filmed as they presented her husband with a draft notice and told him he had to take it “because he is a citizen of the Russian Federation and is obliged to appear tomorrow at the commissariat.”
Outrage only intensified amid reports that some public workers had already begun receiving draft notices en masse. Medical staffers in Moscow have already been called up, according to human rights lawyer Pavel Chikov, who also called BS on the Russian defense ministry’s claims the mobilization would only be “partial.”
The Insider reported that doctors and nurses at one private clinic in Moscow had also received draft notices.
The actual text of the decree declaring mobilization puts no cap on the number of people to be called up and does not limit the draft to reservists, as defense officials claim. The document also contains one “classified” clause that keeps the number of those to be mobilized concealed.
The backlash was swift: “The crazy old man is going all in, his bets–are our lives. They promised us to take Kyiv in three days. The Ukrainians took in three hours what we took in three months. Now there is a mobilization for ‘fresh meat’ in order to bomb civilian sites,” hackers wrote in a statement posted on the homepage of St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo Airport.
“Ukraine already won. The question is how badly we’ll lose,” the statement read.
Police officers are seen deployed in central Novosibirsk on September 21, 2022, following calls to protest against partial mobilization announced by President Vladimir Putin.
Protests also broke out in unexpected places, with customers of one jewelry store chain reportedly receiving a message that read, “Today Vladimir Putin announced a general mobilization. This means your husbands, children, and fathers can be sent by force to fight in Ukraine at any moment. Into the war that Putin started and he is losing…”
The company, 585 Gold, later blamed the messages on hackers.
Meanwhile, anger seems to be growing over Russian lawmakers who cheer on the war but let ordinary citizens do the dirty work.
Dmitry Vyatkin, a lawmaker in Putin’s United Russia party, raised eyebrows with a speech Wednesday claiming it’s “easy” to decide to head to the frontline in Ukraine–but arguing that he and other lawmakers can’t do it because they’re too busy explaining the “importance” of the war to people.
The family of Putin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, was also put on the spot over their apparently untouchable status during the mobilization.
A reporter for Popular Politics, a news program created by allies of imprisoned Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny, phoned up Peskov’s son, Nikolai, during a Wednesday broadcast and impersonated a military commissar, telling him he was being called up for military service in accordance with the mobilization.
“You must understand, if you know I am Mr. Peskov, how entirely wrong it is for me to be there,” Nikolai responded. “Basically, I will decide this on a different level.”
Of course, you should know the answer yourself.
Iz not true, iz globohomo propaganda foto. Ruzzian boyz only going to Finland and Armenia to buy snacks for trip to Ukraina and will be right back to join comrades in slaughter, I mean glorious zpecial military operation. We azk their familiez.
Da, we know where familiez are, so dey better kom back.
Thanks Joe you freaking corrupt bastard,no wonder your son is strung out on drugs,if you were my father I would probably be the same.
This senile corrupt jackass is going to get the world blown to hell
Hey you global warming jackasses,old senile Joe is going to make his contribution to global warming soon,the entire planet will be blown to bits,well that will be the end of global warming worries
Tell us that it’s the “globalists” and “neo-cons”.
Do you paid to post all this propaganda?
They’ll be fragging their officers.
Got ‘facts’ for you right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Bo1uYpt98
Does Russia have a actual military? Seeing them round up 17yr olds and prisoners makes me wonder why we need a US presence in Europe to defend Europe.
LMAO!! Good one!
Also see:
‘Send Putin To The Trenches’: Russia’s Military Call-Up Sparks Protests
https://flipboard.com/@flipboarduk/ukraine-war-32q04o5ez/send-putin-to-the-trenches-russia-s-military-call-up-sparks-protests/a-ZtJ3gdhFQE2e1O-iKcthYg%3Aa%3A26228122-a77b6eda78%2Fco.uk
‘I don’t want to die’: Exodus from Russia after Putin’s call-up for Ukraine war
https://flipboard.com/@flipboarduk/ukraine-war-32q04o5ez/i-don-t-want-to-die-exodus-from-russia-after-putin-s-call-up-for-ukraine-war/a-_uDJianPR7an-H14HDEXew%3Aa%3A26228122-7e060d3682%2Ffrance24.com
Russia has mobilized. What happens now?
https://flipboard.com/@flipboarduk/ukraine-war-32q04o5ez/russia-has-mobilized-what-happens-now/a-Ssl-rwESTl-cf-sOXjHofA%3Aa%3A26228122-95145ce2e3%2Fpolitico.eu
ZEEPERS = [Z]elensky + FR[eepers]
Any of a group of conservatives who have ceased thinking critically and now accept any and all propaganda narratives put out by the west, now aligning themselves with the WEF, the full array of globohomos, Soros, and the deep state, in their “support for ukraine.”
All you guys miss the point
What you argue about no longer matters. Tour archaic thinking is obsolete
Zelensky has led Ukraine to the defeat of Russia. The world applauds and now supports his efforts.
That is the prevailing reality and all that matters.
—> Zelensky has led Ukraine to the defeat of Russia.
The US and western nations are fighting a proxy war. Ukraine is just a puppet
The war is hardly over.
—> The world applauds and now supports his efforts.
The world is force fed ukraine propaganda narratives daily by western intelligence agencies and the 21 PR firms Ukraine hired.
Since people are not capable of independent thought, like Zeepers, of course they believe what they read.
In the mean time, the bankrupt western states are sowing the seeds for the destruction of their economies, the dollar as reserve currency, and allowing China to become the dominant economy by 2030.
But Zeep on…
You miss the point
The Russian economy is already destroyed. Although fighting continues, Russia has lost the war and existential destruction is now the Russian economic reality.
Many reports today of falling down drunk conscripted Russians boarding buses and planes. Their deaths will be quick and not painless in Ukraine.
I do not believe the Russian economy is destroyed.
That is a western narrative.
No problem. I think it was asking too much for folks to use
their own judgement about what was taking place.
Sorry you weren’t up to it.
Would you like them to cut off all mention of anything Biden
does so we don’t know? Yeah, that’s the ticket.
You folks let yourself down.
I am not the only conservative against this war/conflict, and you can take that to the bank.
Furthermore:
“The poll found Americans in large part disagree with the current Biden administration strategy for aiding Ukraine:
Only 15% of the American public support sending more military and financial aid to Ukraine than wealthy European countries, with almost twice as many people (34%) wanting to send less assistance.
54% of respondents said that the United States should only continue to provide aid to Ukraine if the Europeans are willing to match our support.
Around half of the respondents polled said the U.S. should provide the same level of support for Ukraine as wealthy European countries, not more.
Generally, Americans would like to see less American military involvement in the world overall:
57% of respondents oppose (strongly or somewhat) direct American military intervention in the war in Ukraine while only 14% percent support (strongly or somewhat).
42% of respondents would like to see less American military involvement abroad. Only 7% would support more engagement.
A plurality of respondents said Biden should make lowering or eliminating inflation his top priority (40%). Conversely, only 2% believe that ensuring a defeat of Russia in Ukraine should be the President’s main priority.
Notably, when compared to a similar poll conducted in July, American sentiment on the Russia-Ukraine war has remained largely unchanged – only about a quarter of the American public support directly involving the U.S. military in the Russia-Ukraine war, with more than twice as many people opposing.”
‘New Poll: Americans want wealthy European Countries to step up in Ukraine, wary of American military involvement in the Conflict’
https://cv4a.org/news-media/new-poll-americans-want-wealthy-european-countries-to-step-up-provide-aid-to-ukraine-wary-of-direct-intervention-in-conflict/
That said, you all be sure to donate your $5, $10, $20, $25, or $50 to one of the various Ukraine NGOs.
Better yet, when are you picking up a rifle and heading to the Ukraine to show Putin how it’s done?
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