Posted on 09/25/2022 11:34:13 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Russia's two most senior lawmakers on Sunday addressed a string of complaints about Russia's mobilisation drive, ordering regional officials to get a handle on the situation and swiftly solve the "excesses" that have stoked public anger.
President Vladimir Putin's move to order Russia's first military mobilisation since World War Two triggered protests across the country and seen flocks of military-age men flee, causing tailbacks at borders and flights to sell out.
Multiple reports have also documented how people with no military service have been issued draft papers - contrary to Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu's guarantee that only those with special military skills or combat experience would be called up - prompting even ultra-loyal pro-Kremlin figures to publicly express concern.
Russia's top two parliamentarians, both close Putin allies, explicitly addressed public anger at the way the mobilisation drive was unfolding.
Valentina Matviyenko, the chairwoman of Russia's upper house, the Federation Council, said she was aware of reports of men who should be ineligible for the draft being called up.
"Such excesses are absolutely unacceptable. And, I consider it absolutely right that they are triggering a sharp reaction in society," she said in a post on the Telegram messaging app.
In a direct message to Russia's regional governors - who she said had "full responsibility" for implementing the call-up - she wrote: "Ensure the implementation of partial mobilisation is carried out in full and absolute compliance with the outlined criteria. Without a single mistake."
Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the State Duma, Russia's lower chamber, also expressed concern in a separate post.
"Complaints are being received," he said.
"If a mistake is made, it is necessary to correct it ... Authorities at every level should understand their responsibilities."
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Gosh, the mobiliizers were just “dizzy with success.”
Notice how fat and bloated Putin looks. His eyers are popping out of his hear as if the has some sort of disease. He can’t sit up straight and has to lean on his left arm braced on the table to keep from falling off his seat.
It would be nice if we could just get factual reporting that is not from one of our CIA-MI6 deepstate globohomo propaganda publishers.
Everyone and every government has their critics, arm chair generals, etc. Fact.
Obviously the young, hip, Russians need to GROW UP a bit, and, no doubt (in my opinion), the Russian military will help greatly here.
Yep. Russia’s fake army is being smashed into little pieces by Ukrainian farmers and miners. That’s why the rushed Stalinist referendums. Putin’s only hope is the west forces Ukraine to surrender. So we’ll see more agitprop theatrics from fascist Russia designed to scare the west.
If he dissolves parliament, there will be zero mediation between the Russian people and the Russian state, not even the weak expression of discontent we are seeing now. Only the very unstable balance between Putin, the security services and the Russian military will be left. The incomes of many powerful men in the Russian military and arms industries must be getting hit hard by this war. I wonder how long Putin will last unless he replaces them with incorruptible fanatics, a dim possibility.
Yes, and you are simply proving what I asserted:
Everyone and every government has their critics, arm chair generals, etc. Fact.
Putin mobilization stronk as bull.
I wonder how long Putin will last unless he replaces them with incorruptible fanatics, a dim possibility.
Putin will be fighting a two front war since it looks like it’s about ready to kickoff in Dagestan. Again. Russian supremacists are playing with fire and they will get burned.
And Putin’s Russian subjects will shut up because they’re sheep.
Ethnic Russians are sheep and serfs. Notice the only sheep here in this video is Putin’s stooge.
A group of women successfully chases away a lone policeman at an anti-mobilisation protest in Dagestan
https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1574037376426545158
Indeed, going quite well, even in Chechnya were the conscription plan implemented there was overfulfilled by 254 percent.
That's what Czar Nicky thought, until 1917.
I was in Eastern Europe only a few years after 1989. One of the most interesting things to see was the variety of resistance that's possible to despotic regimes. Alcoholism, feigned stupidity (learned helplessness), work-to-rule, sabotage of equipment, etc., etc. There are a thousand ways for a subject population to dig in its heels. I suspect the Russians know every one of them.
He was replaced by Russia's first democracy, the Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky.
Then in October, the Bolsheviks violently overthrew, not the Tsar, but Russia's first democracy.
How so? By acquiescing to being drafted to fight in a war for which their own laws preclude conscription? They can and should resist in any way possible.
“How so? By acquiescing to being drafted to fight in a war for which their own laws preclude conscription?”
I guess I missed the ‘conscription’, when did Putin announce that? It sounded more like he was calling up reserves.
Well first it’s a partial mobilisation so there’s that. Doesn’t take much to scare Europeans now they cut their own throats on fuel they’re all wired up about.
Unfortunately Europeans aren’t prepared to handle much more than they already do - and they’re thinking isn’t exactly level headed these days.
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