Posted on 09/21/2022 6:52:04 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Terrified Russians are scrambling to flee the country today with one-way flights out of Moscow sold out after Vladimir Putin sparked mass panic by ordering a troop mobilisation in a dramatic escalation of the Ukraine war.
Tickets to Johannesburg for a family of three were earlier fetching £44,000, while the cheapest flights from the capital to Dubai were costing more than £4,500 - about five times the average monthly wage, amid the desperate race to escape the potential conscription.
In a nationwide speech, Putin ordered the call-up of 300,000 military reserves - a first in Russia since the Second World War - and issued a chilling new threat to use nuclear weapons against the West, telling world leaders to back off Ukraine while warning: 'I'm not bluffing'.
The apocalyptic warnings have prompted even China to demand a ceasefire 'through dialogue and consultation', while Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Putin should return all occupied land, including Crimea, to its 'rightful owners'.
According to Russian investigative news outlet RBK, all plane tickets to countries where Russians would not need a visa, including Turkey, Armenia and Georgia, have now sold out, while flagship airline Aeroflot is not displaying any available flights.
Bus tickets were also sold out, and searches for 'how to leave Russia' also topped Google traffic at the time Putin's speech was originally scheduled, data shows.
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Meanwhile a mixture of fear, anger, and dissent was spreading across Russian social media networks.
Users even coined a new word - 'Mogilisation' from the Russian word 'mogila' or 'grave' - to describe the expected fate of those taken away to fight.
Lilianna D demanded: 'I recommend mobilising the entire Duma [parliament] and their families first of all. And let people see how loyal they are.'
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We know for a ‘fact’ that Putin has dangerous enemies thru our MSM Cabal eneMedia.
In reality, both Putin AND bidAn have handlers to carry each of their carcasses forward to further the New World Alliance or the New World Order, respectively.
Ukrainian women do the same...
Your Brit handlers are falling down on the job.
Who knew Xi got all his info from the Daily Mail?
Chris Pleasance, Brit fabulist and jester.
Most of the Russian bloggers I follow have fled to Georgia too. Usually through one of the stans.
If they have waited till now to flee, it might be too late.
I’d be looking for more discreet ways across the border at this point.
Give ultimatum for sanctions ( because they don’t work) do a mobilization because you lost no soldiers.
Standard KGB lies from Putin
The breathless DM headline is bad enough, but seeing all of these people appearing to take it as gospel is really discouraging. I don’t know if they really believe this hyperbole or if their job just requires that they pretend to do so.
“We lost only 6,000 soldiers and because of that, we need partial mobilization, to replace them with 300,000 reservists.”
American mothers too.
Lads are being built without air conditioning now as Putin’s Russia does have the technical know how.
Not sure how you get that Putin is aligned with NWO. He is old school Soviet and cares only about recreating the Russian empire, and being his own mafia boss.
Putin is evil (one of many such evils in our current world), but he is MRGA (Make Russia Great Again) in his own mind, and when Trump says he ‘admires’ Putin, this is the quality I believe Trump refers to. Otherwise, Putin is a thug.
Biden is also a thug, but a cowardly one who is all talk and no hat if you really did get him out ‘behind the school’.
Yep. He’s a fiction writer and not a very good one.
While those Ukrainian women do knock me out, I doubt few are seeking to be mail order brides to Khabarovsk.
The story yesterday on a criminal complaint filed by leftist immigration lawyers against Desantis hit at 6:01 pm and every fake news website had the same story, word for word in the next 8 minutes…dozens and dozens
This one was just dumped into the algorithm like so much wood on a bonfire.
The coronavirus scam should have been a wake up. The fake news wouldn’t be doing this without an ample supply of sheep willing to go so far as jab an experimental, barely tested concoction into themselves….enjoy the lies
Won’t anyone in Russia eliminate this scourge???
And America continues to fight a proxy war with Russia, sending billions of dollars to fund the war with no end in sight.
We should have been advocating negotiations from the start.
Why wouldn’t Putin use nukes?
No doubt. Both countries are places people want to leave.
LOL!
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