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Putin Signs Military Draft for 135,000 Citizens Amid Ongoing Mobilization Plans
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It's absolutely bonkers, the continued death and destruction, no one winning... All because one old rich white guy won't admit he was wrong.
Putin's goal has been to reestablish something like the Soviet Union and the territory that covered. Far as he's concerned, Ukraine is legitimately Russian.
Still don't under stand why he's poking the bear with NATO when he's struggling with his current war. Ukraine has bombed so many refineries that he's blocked fuel exports. Russia just launched the largest drone and rocket offensive and killed a whopping 4 people.
There is good strategic logic to what he's doing to NATO. If he can make them scared then maybe they withhold aid that they think they may need to fight Russia when they get attacked. This is a stupid plan for those scared nations, as it's much better for it to be expended in Ukraine against Russia now, weekening their threat, rather than hold back and allow them to gain power. Still, it has worked previously. It seems to be backfiring now though, with NATO nations realizing giving everything they can to Ukraine is the best way to protect themselves.
Ukraine has been fighting the Russian taxation since before the Czars
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russification_of_Ukraine
He seems to do his classic bluff and threatening, assuming NATO will then back off as they have done in the past. It's not very effective these days.
And all these suckers go and die for him. In a country of 100 million, not even one of them bothers to put a bullet in Putin, instead of being his cannon fodder.
IIRC private citizens aren't allowed to own guns in Russia, and Putin controls the oligarchs that control the mob, so he has direct control of all the weapons in the country. In theory.
I'm certain that can't be totally true. In remote areas hunting must be allowed. Maybe you have to have a license, but there's no way no civilians own guns legally. Also, there's a lot of illegal guns in Russia too.
That's the part I don't understand. Those Russian soldiers are being abused in unimaginable ways. And yet they just take it and let themselves be killed.
Russian soldiers come from poor regions: Siberia, the Far East, Kalmykia, etc. To many poor recruits the pay far exceeds anything they could get in civilian life. It's the same strategy as the US military: go to impoverished states and get those desperate poor schmucks to fight and die for you.
Russia has expanded the draft and seemingly can't count on volunteers as much as before. So the situation may change in the future.
One rich fuck with absolute power and unbelievable wealth and the largest country on Earth just HAD to have a little bit more land and destroyed the entire global peace to get it. The Mad King for GoT is less of a spectacle than this absolute disaster of a "leader".