Posted on 11/19/2022 7:26:10 AM PST by dennisw
A desperate Vladimir Putin will seek to massively boost mobilisation by sending more troops to fight in Ukraine, and impose martial law in many Russian cities, it was forecast today.
Yet the draconian moves could trigger a coup from within the elite even before his 'poor health' incapacitates him, says one expert.
And he is now using body doubles who are so like him, it is impossible to tell the difference, it is claimed. The scheme comes as Putin's men were forced to retreat from Kherson last week
This comes as the first train arrived in the liberated city since the initial invasion
The 70-year-old Kremlin leader - who is believed to be suffering from cancer and possibly other ailments - is actively discussing a new forced enlistment to swell yet further the size of the Russian army fighting in Ukraine.
Putin's new scheme comes as Russian troops were forced to pull back from the strategic stronghold of Kherson last week as Ukrainian forces reentered to liberate the city.
The Russian president has already drafted 360,000 on top of his one million strong regular army, yet the results have remained poor.
But the New Year is likely to see another massive call-up as he raids offices and factories for what critics see as cannon fodder.
One theory is that he will want to persuade Russians they are fighting a 'popular war' to protect their country's existence against a threat from the West.
Putin-watcher Valery Solovey, a former professor at Moscow's prestigious Institute of International Relations [MGIMO], a training school for spies and diplomats, said: 'With a high degree of probability, the second stage of mobilisation will be announced after the New Year celebrations…'
It will be 'more comprehensive than the first.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
This constant stream of sensational drivel says freerepublic will be permanently out of business right about the same time as the former state of Ukraine.
No big deal.
It’s a condensed stew of all that’s wrong with America.
Okay, so is Russia going to do this additional mobilization, or not?
dennis and the daily smell, a match made in purgatory.
A tactical withdrawal is hardly fleeing given it's currently 20 degrees in Kherson and there is no power
Power has been cut off in Ukraine’s embattled city of Kherson, whose residents are being evacuated to safer areas, pro-Russian officials said on Sunday. “There is no electricity in the whole city. We are waiting for further information,” the Kherson energy provider spokesman told local media.
“Please point us to the last, accurate Daily Mail article regarding Ukraine/Russia.”
Who was right about Kherson? Your hundreds of posts denying it could ever fall, or the Daily Mail?
March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October and now November. Any minute now ole pooty poot will give up the ghost. You're one sick automaton.
Kinda like when Poland and France joined greater Germany in 1940. The economic carrot of the EU made joining NATO no choice at all, but now that the West is faltering on all fronts, that choice is crumbling and it's delightful.
That never happened, foreigner.
Ha! This is the capital of a region that Putin had just annexed and said they would be "Russian forever". https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/putin-says-four-annexed-ukrainian-regions-will-be-russian-forever/
But apparently, "forever" in Putinese actually means "less than two months" to everyone else. Whether you call it "fleeing", "retreating", or "tactically withdrawing" is just semantics. The Russiana were forced out of Kherson because the Ukrianians made it militarily untenable for them to stay, and they risked being cut-off.
So there's your article. Now, is the sorry about Putin doing another mass mobilization true, or false?
Ah, back to the good old days of a genuine Kremlin Shuffle.
think of those regions as buffer zones, only needed to keep the fighting there while he solidifies control in the areas bordering the sea of azov that he really desires.
Would anyone at all greet the following sentence with anything but contempt?
Russian technology is at least equal, and largely superior, to that of the US?
Now consider this:
For the past 11 years the only access to the International Space Station has been on Russian launch vehicles.
The US has no hypersonic vehicles in mass production that deliver warheads. Russia has many.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88NnOCSnwEQ
I have serious doubts a US shopping mall would look this well stocked after 9 months of sanctions. The tech looks fine at 3:11, not primitive at all. And no scarcity of military aged men, which propaganda would tell you all fled the country.
It is very dangerous to embrace US propaganda. It can influence our own senior military leaders who can then get a lot of people killed by having an inaccurate read.
All I know is, Putins goal seems to be to completely control the sea of Azov.
Maybe massive oil deposits were found there secretly? and he is trying to get full control of them.
If Putin wanted buffer zones, he wouldn't have publicly annexed them.
I can't tell whether you are lying, delusional, or simply stupid for claiming that Eastern European nations begging to join NATO is equivalent to Germany invading and conquering Poland and France.
Have your reply, and then I'm done with you. You're a joke.
It's a powerless, unheated husk, much like your crumbling liberal world order. No need to defend buildings; move around them.
ZelenskyyIdiot ‘will announce massive new mobilization and martial law’ in desperate move that could hasten coup to dump ailing leader.
Fixed/Corrected
More typical propaganda shat coming from the seriously demented Russophobic UK whose military would fit into a UK soccer stadium but keeps banging them war drums......
Without it and Crimea there is no need for a Black Sea Fleet!
*shrug* just a theory of mine.
Most wars in history are fought over resources. If Putin secretly discovered something valuable in the Sea of Azov (like MASSIVE untapped oil under it). Everything would make more sense about all this.
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