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Putin Launches Largest Military Draft in Years Despite Ceasefire Talks
Newsweek ^

Posted on 04/01/2025 7:06:31 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE

"Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the conscription of 160,000 men into the army, state media reported, marking the largest draft initiative in years, even as ceasefire talks with Ukraine continue under U.S. mediation. The timing and scale of the draft raise doubts about Russia's commitment to diplomacy. Ukraine has accused the Kremlin of using negotiations to delay while reinforcing its position on the battlefield, particularly in the Sumy, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia regions. On Sunday, U.S. President Donald Trump said he would issue secondary tariffs on Russian oil if he believed Moscow was standing in the way of a peace deal.

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Every day now the Kremlin is bombarding the West with new fresh warmongering news. Every single day... every single day...
1 posted on 04/01/2025 7:06:31 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE
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To: USA-FRANCE
It's called Peace Through Strength.

2 posted on 04/01/2025 7:08:36 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: USA-FRANCE

Looks like Ruzzia is getting ready to take more YouCraynee Territory.
Deploy 100,000 French Surrender Monkey’s To Help Defend YouCraynee
from 160,000 new Ruzzian Solders.


3 posted on 04/01/2025 7:12:36 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRobr 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: USA-FRANCE
"Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the conscription of 160,000 men into the army"

Keep in mind this is somewhat a fake report from Newsweak. Putin has ordered the mobilization of 160,000 reserves into the active army. All Russian men are already conscripted and in some type of reserve status.

4 posted on 04/01/2025 7:16:28 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: USA-FRANCE

For perspective, the entire active duty Marine Corps is 172,000. That’s 3 divisions and 3 air wings with all the support troops.


5 posted on 04/01/2025 7:19:02 PM PDT by Salvavida (NS)
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To: USA-FRANCE

6 posted on 04/01/2025 7:20:15 PM PDT by MacNaughton
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

“It’s called Peace Through Strength.”

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><

Then Ukraine is the embodiment of “Ultra Peace Through Strength.” For three years, they have stood firm, defending their homeland against an enemy 30 times their size. Yet despite its overwhelming numerical and material advantage, Russia has failed.

So desperate are Moscow’s warlords that they now beg for help from North Korea’s communist ranks and Chechen warbands, throwing thousands of foreign troops into the meat grinder—proof that Russia cannot win on its own.

The Kremlin started this war, yet it now clearly struggles to survive it. When a supposed superpower must rely on mercenaries and other dictatorships to prop up its failing ambitions, it is not strength — it is humiliation.


7 posted on 04/01/2025 7:20:24 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE (The Iran-Russia-North Korea-China Alliance is at war against Israel and Ukraine. Let's not forget.)
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To: USA-FRANCE

Every day now the Kremlin is bombarding the West with new fresh warmongering news. Every single day... every single day...

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Don’t worry about it.

Ukrainiacs have said over and over that Russia is a “paper bear.”

They have bad tires, bad industry, an outhouse nation, and their economy is kaput.


8 posted on 04/01/2025 7:20:36 PM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. )
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To: USA-FRANCE

Putin is an old man, a rich old man, he doesn’t care.
His decisions will and have wreaked havoc on his country.
All there are, are now is natural resources anybody can now take, and a nuke system whose missiles my be fueled by water.
Who of his young population is going to support his industry? All he has left is old retirees.


9 posted on 04/01/2025 7:21:18 PM PDT by rellic (No such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
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To: MacNaughton

Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah get all their weapons from Russia. This has been going on for decades.

Also:
Putin ‘forming axis of terror’ as he welcomes Hamas and Iran to Moscow
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/26/putin-forming-axis-of-terror-welcomes-hamas-iran-moscow/


10 posted on 04/01/2025 7:24:52 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE (The Iran-Russia-North Korea-China Alliance is at war against Israel and Ukraine. Let's not forget.)
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To: USA-FRANCE

3 times in the last 100 years Europe has invaded Russia. I’m not saying that sometimes the Europeans were provoked but, given the history of invasions Russian needs a very strong military to protect itself. If America had been invaded three times in the past 100 years, I guarantee you that we would have an army three times the size it is now..


11 posted on 04/01/2025 7:27:07 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( )
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To: MacNaughton

One more thing... :
Islamists are attacking Judeo-Christians in Africa and the Middle East.
While Christians are attacking Christians in Europe : Russia’s eradication of entire villages, towns and cities, civilian infrastructure, kidnapping of 20.000 Christian Ukrainian Children.

US House resolution: Russian abduction of Ukrainian children is genocide
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/us-house-resolution-russian-abduction-of-ukrainian-children-is-genocide/

(Members of the US House of Representatives recently demonstrated that they understand what is at stake and are well aware of the crimes being committed by Russia in Ukraine. On March 19, the US House overwhelmingly passed a resolution “condemning the illegal abduction and forcible transfer of children from Ukraine to the Russian Federation” by a 390-9 margin.)


12 posted on 04/01/2025 7:27:33 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE (The Iran-Russia-North Korea-China Alliance is at war against Israel and Ukraine. Let's not forget.)
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To: USA-FRANCE

Pooty-Poot ain’t quitting.

He sees he is on the road to victory.


13 posted on 04/01/2025 7:36:05 PM PDT by Paladin2 ( )
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To: USA-FRANCE
Putin Launches Largest Military Draft in Years Despite Ceasefire Talks

Putin Launches Largest Military Draft in Years Despite Ceasefire Talk by the US, UK, EU, NATO, and Ukraine.

14 posted on 04/01/2025 7:40:04 PM PDT by woodpusher
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To: USA-FRANCE
In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Putin Launches Largest Military Draft in Years Despite Ceasefire Talks, USA-FRANCE wrote:

“It’s called Peace Through Strength.”

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><

Then Ukraine is the embodiment of “Ultra Peace Through Strength.” For three years, they have stood firm, defending their homeland against an enemy 30 times their size. Yet despite its overwhelming numerical and material advantage, Russia has failed.

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ransomnote: Actually, Western nations equipped, trained, and ran the war using Ukrainians as foot soldiers. Ukraine did nothing by itself - most of the weapons and all of the satellite technology, as well as NATO commanders ran the war.

So Milley was running the whole Ukraine war with Russia without telling the public -report
American Thinker ^ | March 31, 2025 | By Monica Showalter

Posted on 3/31/2025, 6:46:23 PM by Kazan

Also, the New York Times admits there were UK commandos, heavily armed but not in Uniform, picking up Ukrainian generals in Kyiv about 2 months after the war started. NATO offered Ukraine a partnership - and there the troops, weapons, command and control from the West was launched. 

Here's an excerpt giving an example of British commandos, out of uniform, conducting illegal warfare and hiding behind their Ukrainian proxies.

The Partnership: The Secret History of the War in Ukraine

This is the untold story of America’s hidden role in Ukrainian military operations against Russia’s invading armies.

By Adam Entous

Adam Entous conducted more than 300 interviews over more than a year with government, military and intelligence officials in Ukraine, the United States, Britain, Germany, Poland, Belgium, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Turkey.

March 29, 2025

On a spring morning two months after Vladimir Putin’s invading armies marched into Ukraine, a convoy of unmarked cars slid up to a Kyiv street corner and collected two middle-aged men in civilian clothes.

Leaving the city, the convoy — manned by British commandos, out of uniform but heavily armed — traveled 400 miles west to the Polish border. The crossing was seamless, on diplomatic passports. Farther on, they came to the Rzeszów-Jasionka Airport, where an idling C-130 cargo plane waited.

"They supplied coordinates to the Ukrainians on Russian targets from a base in Wiesbaden. They supplied mobile artillery units called HIMARS for satellite-guided rockets on Russian targets with American troops calling every shot. They put boots on the ground, and more boots on the ground, calling them "subject matter experts." They dispatched the U.S. Navy to share targeting information on Russian warships beyond Ukrainian waters -- when Ukraine sank Russia's flagship battleship without a navy, through drones, that was what was going on."

Then mission creep came calling, and soon enough, the U.S. was handing out intelligence on Russian locations for military strikes.

NATO lost the proxy war in Ukraine, leaving the Ukrainians to live in rubble.
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So desperate are Moscow’s warlords that they now beg for help from North Korea’s communist ranks and Chechen warbands, throwing thousands of foreign troops into the meat grinder—proof that Russia cannot win on its own.

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ransomnote: Russia already won the war in Ukraine, but it does move at a slow pace to control losses, and it invites foreign troops to control the loss of Russian lives.

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The Kremlin started this war,

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ransomnote: Zelensky allowed the Ukraine to be used to provoke this war - he must have been VERY WELL PAID for his treason.

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yet it now clearly struggles to survive it. When a supposed superpower must rely on mercenaries and other dictatorships to prop up its failing ambitions, it is not strength — it is humiliation.

~~~~~

ransomnote: NATO/Ukraine lost the war. When Trump tells Zelensky he doesn't have any cards, he means Zelensky is in no position to make demands because the Ukraine lost the war. We're now moving toward peace and peacekeepers, and likely Putin is preparing for NATO's betrayal of all peace agreements, again.


15 posted on 04/01/2025 7:41:06 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: USA-FRANCE

Wait, I thought all the Russians men had already been killed in Ukraine? Who are they going to draft?


16 posted on 04/01/2025 7:43:23 PM PDT by JoSixChip
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To: USA-FRANCE

Consequences of NATO encroachment on the Russian homeland.


17 posted on 04/01/2025 7:45:18 PM PDT by McGruff (Biden will go down in history as the worst president ever.)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

Your claim is wrong actually. This is the regular biannual conscription of newly eligible (read as turned 18, finished educational deferment, naturalized between age 18-30, etc.) who have never served their mandatory one year. This is concretely not a mobilization. Men in this status are not eligible for foreign service.


18 posted on 04/01/2025 7:48:07 PM PDT by billakay
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To: USA-FRANCE

If you want peace, prepare for war.


19 posted on 04/01/2025 7:48:09 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out here...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck, 1980, Reno, NV)
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To: All

All people have to do is wander over to the Wiki for the Russian military.

For literally decades, Russia has done conscription in the Spring each year. The conscripts serve 1 year, all of it training in matters military, and then they are returned to private life, but in the inactive Reserves.

This is all done every year. There is nothing special in this particular announcement. This universal conscription is why their Reserves numbers are in the millions, having accumulated over the decades. They leave the Reserves ranks at . . . I think it was 45 yrs old.

It is when Reserves are mobilized that men come on active duty. That is the significant announcement. Not the annual conscription total which is pretty much always between 100K and 200K.


20 posted on 04/01/2025 7:49:04 PM PDT by Owen
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