It's so bad that even this battle-axe got pulled off the streets.
Her own fault for wielding that flashlight in such a manly fashion.
Posted on 10/16/2022 12:31:30 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
Police and military officers swooped down on a Moscow business center this past week unannounced. They were looking for men to fight in Ukraine — and they seized nearly every one they saw. Some musicians, rehearsing. A courier there to deliver a parcel. A man from a Moscow service agency, very drunk, in his mid-50s, with a walking disability.
“I have no idea why they took him,” said Alexei, who, like dozens of others in the office complex, was rounded up and taken to the nearest military enlistment office, part of a harsh new phase in the Russian drive.
In cities and towns across Russia, men of fighting age are going into hiding to avoid the officials who are seizing them and sending them to fight in Ukraine.
Police and military press-gangs in recent days have snatched men off the streets and outside Metro stations. They’ve lurked in apartment building lobbies to hand out military summonses. They’ve raided office blocks and hostels. They’ve invaded cafes and restaurants, blocking the exits.
At a predawn sweep on the Mipstroy1 construction company dormitories on Thursday, they took more than 200 men. On Oct. 9, they rounded up dozens at a Moscow shelter for the homeless.
The press-gangs appear to descend at random. It is terrifying — and, at times, comically haphazard. Alexei, a 30-something pacifist, lives with his cat and, until he was hauled off, enjoyed hanging out with friends in bars, cafes and parks, going to concerts and planning his next holiday in Europe. (He and others in this report spoke on the condition that his last name be withheld out of concern for his safety. The Washington Post has confirmed the raid, but could not independently verify the details he provided.)
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It's so bad that even this battle-axe got pulled off the streets.
Her own fault for wielding that flashlight in such a manly fashion.
Sounds like the Nazi’s at the end of their run. They were killing anyone who was trying to get out and putting anyone and everyone they could in uniform, including even old men in their 60’s.
It is important to keep track of which sources hold up as the weeks and months pass, whose reporting that we read a month ago looks more accurate today, and whose reporting from 2 months ago held up when checked on a month later, and so on.
Because of mission trips and distant relatives in Ukraine, I’ve spent time in the cities and especially villages outside the cities between 2008 and 2012. I saw very few children in the cities, and about 1 child in the villages. The ones I did see would be of fighting age now. Very few…
Take it from NewsMax then, or any one of many other publications. Only an idiot would believe Russian propaganda.
Russia Grabs Men Off Street, Homeless Shelters to Fight in Ukraine
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/russia-street-ukraine/2022/10/16/id/1092095/
smells like pure bs
Because it is.
Alexi is 30 and lives with his cat.
This is not going to be a good month for Alexi. Nor his cat.
“The old men and children they send out to face us, they can’t slow us down”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjKajpMoUxM&t=57s
Or from Australia. The report is being published around the world.
Russia is grabbing men off the street to fight in Ukraine
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/europe/russia-is-grabbing-men-off-the-street-to-fight-in-ukraine-20221017-p5bq8q.html
“Cannon fodder, Cannon fodder!
“Get your Cannon fodder right here!
“Cannon fodder, Cannon fodder!
Ok so here is Breitbart. You realize you and Iran are on the same side?
its the dogs timber,, the dogs they grabbing to fight in the ukraine... WaPo - LOL
Just like the lies of “news agencies” Reuters and AP are spread around the world.
These days, if it's about Ukraine, it's a propaganda piece.
They would be suffering the same fate that I've been speculating about the fentanyl crisis at our border:
It will be even worse when fentanyl kills off the next generation of recruits.Our enemies are engaging in a long war aimed at killing the next generation of soldier, not our current army.
Remember when Donald Rumsfeld famously said "You go to war with the army you have, not the army you want to have?" Our enemies have twisted that into "You will go to war with the army you will have, not the army you have now."
If this story is true, Russia will not have an effective future army if they're busy killing off the current generation of baby-daddies.
-PJ
Needless to say, that massive missile strikes by Russia continue all over 404 and there are reports of massive explosions and power outages in Nikolaev and other places, plus Kiev remains to be targeted. And, as was expected, all VSU attempts to perform "offensives" have been repelled with massive losses for VSU, including at Kremennaya and Svatovo (in Russian), but NATO--let's drop the pretense here--will try to throw as much cannon fodder at Russian formations as possible because they need something, like "breakthrough" in some sectors, because the Midterms are coming and Russians amassing troops for obvious things. Time is running out.
So, there are signs that the realization of grim reality begins to descend on Washington D.C.
I was on record for years--pardon me for my pleasure in reminding everyone--that NATO cannot fight a real war with the peer. Russia is not just the peer, Russia fields combat capabilities many of which are simply non-existent anywhere in NATO (US, of course, included). This becomes increasingly obvious both through operational and strategic incompetence of NATO planners and through admissions of such nature as by Austin or, if you read further, by:
Mark Cancian is a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic & International Studies who spent seven years working on DOD procurement issues for the Office of Management and Budget. His assessment based on inventory levels, industrial capacity, and information from the Biden administration is that the U.S. has "limited" supplies of HIMARs, Javelins, Stingers and M-777 Howitzers. "There are some areas where we’re basically at the bottom of the barrel," he told Fox News Digital. In some cases, this means the U.S. will likely start meeting Ukraine’s request for weaponry by sending over lower-end substitutions, such as lighter Howitzers that are serviceable but not what Ukraine is after. In other cases, the U.S. may not have much to give – Cancian said that while there is talk of the U.S. providing more air defense equipment, there is not much the U.S. can give in that area. Cancian said he reads Austin comments as a sign that the days of the U.S. giving Ukraine its best stuff are gone.
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But this fast review may give you some glimpse into the "thinking" by NATO planners who need something, anything to show for their failed "offensives" and to somehow spin (to cover up, that is) an atrocious record of the US-made weaponry (plus from other lapdogs) in real combat conditions. There will be a talk about well documented utter failure of the US AGM-88 HARM missiles against Russian Air Defense, but we need to be patient and wait for the conclusion of the active part of SMO and with anti-terrorist operations by FSB and MVD coming at the forefront of this war. In the end, terrorism is the only type of war combined West excels at.
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