Cannon fodder – yes – but, given the age range (perhaps not a coincidence) and now the sight of those “how-can-they-expect-us-to-fight” barracks, the conscription is looking more like a way of getting the most likely (and enthusiastic) troublemakers off the streets, thereby siphoning the fuel out of the inevitable mass urban rioting.
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Putin is either shielded from this info by his inner circle, or he is growing more desperate by the day. No wonder he’s murdering his oligarchs at such a fast clip lately.
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Venture Cypriots?
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Or out of the country. The men showing up for duty are poor and uneducated guys from the rural areas and the periphery – they have no options and wouldn’t have protested anyhow. The people who are most dangerous to Putin’s regime – young, educated middle-class men from the big cities with resources – have already fled and won’t come back as long as Putin is in charge.
This has all been a reminder that fascists don’t care about brain drains. They’d rather set their country back decades than risk people with critical thinking skills questioning their authority.
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