Showing posts with label mobilization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mobilization. Show all posts
Monday, June 3, 2024
The right believe the US is under threat and are mobilizing
In 'mirror world', Trump is martyr and Biden is autocrat, as calls for violence erupt on internet after ex-president's conviction…
Monday, October 17, 2022
Russia is grabbing men off the street to fight in Ukraine - The Washington Post
Police and military officers swooped down on a Moscow business center this 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...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
As Russians Flee, Some Find Draft Notices Waiting at the Border - The New York Times
The Kremlin dispatched federal security forces to frontier border crossings packed with Russian men trying to escape the draft by entering countries like Georgia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia...
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
Putin's Supporters Complain Old Russians Are Being Sent to War
Not all of Putin's conscripts have been viewed as particularly helpful to his mission either. One 63-year-old man who has diabetes and a severe brain injury was among those called to fight after doctors told him he was fit for service...
Putin’s Top Cheerleaders Panic Over Russian Army ‘Mutiny’
Solovyov pointed out: "All of them have phones and they won't stay silent. If they're being handed rotten things, if they have no helmets, no body armor, no one is going to hide it... I will tell you very politely: don't play games with people… This isn't some liberal riff-raff, these are our people and I refuse to be silent about it." Continuing with the same theme, Simonyan cautioned: "Comrades Commanders, this is not the time for this... don't anger the people!" The head of RT urged those involved in the process of mobilization to remember the story of the mutiny that occurred on the battleship Potemkin, sparked by the crew being fed maggot-infested meat. Simonyan exclaimed: "Let me remind you that in 1905, small things like these led to the first mutiny of an entire military unit in the history of our country. Is that what you want?" She starkly warned: "You're toying with armed people."…
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