"Just swap your husband for your granny"
— Polina Ivanova (@polinaivanovva) September 23, 2022
Lovely little light-hearted headline from Russian state news agency Ria, in an article about whether families who've had a man conscripted can get their money back for any holidays they'd planned, since he can't leave the country anymore pic.twitter.com/yNpH445KDV
September 23, 2022
"Just swap your husband for your granny."
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Swap them and send granny to the front!
I propose that any blue checkmark with a UKR flag by their handle should volunteer and help bolster UKR's numbers in the face of this provocation.
Not an option for Polk Salad Annie
The mobilization is part of the plan to conduct referendums in the Russian-majority regions of Ukraine. Right after the referendums vote to join those regions to Russia, those regions indeed will join Russia. Then the mobilized soldiers will move into and defend those regions from Ukrainians.
Of course, there will be many accusations that those referendums will be rigged.
Below is a mainstream-media style guide about such accusations:
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Articles about such accusations may never use any of the following words:
* baseless
* debunked
* false
* a big lie
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In contrast, any article about such accusations regarding the USA's 2020 election must always use one or more of the following words:
* baseless
* debunked
* false
* a big lie
Mass drafting of unwilling conscripts to be sent to the Ukraine front as cannon fodder in an unpopular war...hmm, there are going to be a lot of shot-in-the-back Russian officers at the front.
Biden's war. Biden and Klain Shut off our energy supply and it is the biggest gift to Putin - ever given.
Take my wife. Please...
'I propose that any blue checkmark with a UKR flag by their handle should volunteer and help bolster UKR's numbers in the face of this provocation.'
If I never see another Ukraine flag it will be too soon...
Biden’s doing great at keeping us safe! I would love to be a fly on the wall in Obama’s office when he reads this shyte, Obama maintained decent relations with Russia.
Why is this border so important to us that we risk war with Russia over the fact that ethnic Russians prefer to be part of Russia to remaining in a country where the legitimate government was overthrown 8 years ago, and the coup plotters have been waging bloody civil war against them ever since, and have outlawed their language?
Why was the coup “legal” and these elections are not? We are being ruled by Humpty Dumpty. Words mean whatever they say they mean, “it’s simply a question of who is to be master, that’s all.”
You can get a Geiger counter and iodine pills through the Amazon portal. AI poker players don’t bluff, and neither does Putin; for the simple reason that bluffing doesn’t work, the US will always call it.
Take the jab if you want to see your granny again was also… propaganda 😷
Conscription teams roam Ukraine, bursting into night clubs and sending young men into the meat grinder of Russian artillery. These conscripts will be used far from the front lines. I posted a Twitter thread here a while back from a Canadian describing her conversations with a Ukrainian refugee she had taken in, whose brother was hiding from conscription squads, and whose family was split in allegiance. Inexperience in war is a recipe for disaster, but Ukraine has no choice. Russia believes that the Ukrainian army as it existed in February has already been crushed, and now they are fighting NATO head on. The conscription is about an expected hot war with NATO.
Why was it so important that Ukraine not remain non-aligned?
The west waged war on every russian citizena through sanctions
Putin is on his last legs and is losing his grip on the Russian people.
Thanks Joe Biden🤪 for standing up to Tyrannical regimes.
Mike Sylwester do you really believe the referendums are going to be legit?
Joe Smith: had he been around in 1939 would have been happy to never see a Polish flag again.
I suspect Ice Nine is right. There is going to be a lot of fraggin of Russian officers. The Russians started on 24 February with 200,000 troops. Number of KIA is estimated at 50,000 and presumably a 3 to 1 ratio of wounded to killed. Assuming 20,000 killed and 60,000 wounded the Russians have lost 80,000 out of the initial 200,000 with a 10% KIA rate. That is a horrendous loss rate for six months. The Russian troops are poorly lead, poorly motivated,poorly supplied as it is and yet they are going to properly train and equip these new troops in less than four months? I suspect most Russian men of normal military age have no interest in, or care about Ukraine and the so-called Republics to be annexed by Russia. The Russians don't have local air superiority, need Iranian drones and possibly North Korean ammo now and are using old cold war reserves of equipment. That doesn't look like what is a winning army. With all that, how are they going to magically overcome their current situation?
I suspect Putin's statements about using nukes isn't so much to deter attacks on the Russians in occupied and annexed parts of Ukraine but rather to discourage the Ukrainians from targeting Russian targets in undisputed Russian land.
Unwilling conscripts sent into a meat grinder, social unrest, economic dislocation, authoritarian regime tamping down dissent with state security...looking more and more like 1917 Russia.
Even in the worst days of the Cold War we weren't hoping to crush our enemies, see them driven before us, and to hear the lamentation of their women. We did manage to bring the Cold War to an end without rejoicing in the humiliation of the other side. I would have preferred working towards a peaceful resolution of conflicts in the region.
Fish? Bicycle?
Planned parent/hood? All's fair in lust and abortion?
Perhaps a caring alternative that shares/shifts responsibility with "benefits".
Granny can wear a mask and fool them. Some would like to trade places, while others actually believe it and take comfort in their musical delusions.
cubanbob at 9:46 AM
do you really believe the referendums are going to be legit?
The main problem with the referendums will be that a large portion of the population will be displaced.
In Ukraine's 2010 Presidential election about 90% (ninety percent) of the electorates in Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts voted for Viktor Yanukovych, the pro-Russia candidate.
See the purple areas on the far right side of this map.
Those votes in Ukraine's 2010 Presidential election indicate that if a referendum had been conducted before the Russian invasion, then those two oblasts would have voted overwhelmingly to secede from Ukraine and join Russia.
I am sure that a perfectly fair referendum would see the residents of Donbas vote to be ruled by the same people who have been shelling them for eight years and who are, as we speak , shelling civilian areas to disrupt the voting, because that is human nature.
In Ukraine's 2010 Presidential election
Purportedly certified by the EU. Even after the coup, Ukraine could have avoided eight years of bloodshed with an evenhanded treatment of the disenfranchised regions, people, and contractual commitments.
“ Obama maintained decent relations with Russia.”
Ukraine has become one of those places like Lebanon, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Serbia, Congo, and Yemen that are pools of human misery. Power plays by power hungry native leaders aided by outside agitator states make them so. Nations have interests, I get it.
I can’t help any of them. I am disgusted with connected people who personally profit from them. So, there we are.
I really liked Obama’s Putin hot mike amateur shit show of, I will have more flexibility after the election, true, but idiotic.
I also like how this did not show that Obama was dealing with Putin, but Trump was. I think the hot mike incident shows that Obama was secretly colluding with Putin, by definition, otherwise why not say it in a public speech? But democrats believe Trump did it because of pee tapes.
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