US would welcome Russians fleeing military draft, White House says: "“We welcome any folks who are seeking asylum" Says Karine Jean-Pierre

Russian men who are fleeing the country to avoid being drafted into Moscow’s war against Ukraine should seek asylum in the US, the White House said Tuesday.

Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters at her regular briefing that the response inside Russia to the so-called “partial mobilization” ordered last week by the country’s president, Vladimir Putin, shows “this war that was started by the Kremlin is unpopular.”

“Regardless of their nationality, [people] may apply for asylum in the United States and have their claims adjudicated on a case by case basis,” Jean-Pierre added. “We welcome any folks who are seeking asylum and they should do that.

“What we’re seeing in Russia are the people of Russia who are saying they do not want this war, they do not support Putin’s war,” she went on.

The military call-up, in which the Kremlin seeks to draft some 300,000 men for the fighting in Ukraine — has sparked protests, violence, and a run on Russia’s borders. Airline tickets to the few countries still accepting direct flights from Russia have been sold out for days.

In the southern Russian province of Dagestan over the weekend, a group of women protesting the war chanted “no to war” while chasing police officers and demanding the release of other anti-war protestors. Protests continued in Dagestan Monday and included frequent clashes with police.

In Ryazan, 100 miles southeast of Moscow, a man lit himself on fire Monday while shouting that he did not want to go to war.

The government of Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic that shares a large southern border with Russia, said Tuesday that roughly 98,000 Russians had come to the country in the week since the mobilization was announced.

>>But I wanted the women to come here. Not the men. This is all wrong!!

The Ukrainian refugees are mostly women.

The Russian refugees are mostly men.

Maybe they get together?

Well our C-team diplomatic advisors are quite the Sh*t-Show deep thinkers.

American political corruption has an inbred quality that serves no the World nor America - power corrupts. Those who neither deserve or earned their place in the big leagues are quickly and easily seen for what they are.

Biden’s handlers seem to think they can insult with impunity and without a cost. The snot nosed punks running Biden’s every action will soon put us into a war that we cannot win. The rotten to core Boiden Admin hasn’t a clue about negotating in real diplomacy and are being schooled by stone age zealots from Iran, are bought and paid for by Ukrainian corruption, the Chinese, and soon Russia.

Actions have consequences. The Biden C-team will usher in a war that they think is never gonna happen; kept up with the childish BS and get a broken face; once the genie is out of the bottle, how long will it take those handling the Bumbling Biden dipomacy to find the nuclear button.... I sure as hell hope they have the capacity to contemplate it isn’t located in isle with Hillary’s reset button; it is actually much closer than a big box store, but to those who cheated in school and broke every law they could to gain the presidency, then line their pockets - starting a war with Russia that involves nukes, biological and chemical warfare can be the very much thinkable and talked about solution to end America’s NATO Ukraine war.

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