Ignore if this is too personal. But I think you stated you weren't likely to be conscripted. Is this because you aren't of military age and what is the cut off as it looks like there are some men getting on into their 50s being turfed out. Best of luck either way.
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Ignore if this is too personal. But I think you stated you weren't likely to be conscripted. Is this because you aren't of military age and what is the cut off as it looks like there are some men getting on into their 50s being turfed out. Best of luck either way.
Due to the issues with my health my category (medical profile, I have a “Д“) reliefs me from conscription and military duty. Unless they decide to change the entire system, reevaluating different illnesses and their influence on conscript’s ability to serve, I’m relieved from any service altogether. Which is a remote possibility but I’d think that it’s too much of a hassle for an almost non-existent number of potential conscripts that they’ll be able to get that way.
Usually those who manage to legally evade mandatory military service get a different, lighter category (“B” or “Г“), that frees them up unless something drastic, like this war, happens.
Even Russia Serbia won't recognise those referendums.
Would that be possible without declaring martial law?
I think I also read that in certain regions martial law will start (not all of Russia).
Not sure if this one was posted already but the screams are terrifying.
Yeah, it was posted. I got the chills watching it.
I wouldn't board a plane if I was in Russia. A pilot explaining how many systems in his plane are inoperative. I think its an a320
https://fb.watch/fM5UPvpvye/
https://fb.watch/fM5UPvpvye/
In recent years? He was political all his life, just only started showing it in his lyrics at The Dark Side of the Moon. I suppose it was more socioeconomic commentary until The Wall, but from The Final Cut onwards, it's firmly political as well. I can usually get along with his general points, but I think I very rarely agree on anything specific.
Not Pink Floyd though, just Waters. This is what Pink Floyd (well, Gilmour, and I suppose also Mason) put out, early in the war:
I happened to see their website this week, they still have a ton of merch around this, with all proceedings going to Ukraine-oriented things.
(I was reading a book on Pink Floyd recently, so this is good timing.
)That's putting it mildly!
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Everything is possible in a country where you can get an anti-constitutional law through all the necessary instances in a day.
What the hell Is this shit ….the way they grabbed the poor women, hope she’s alright.
I hope in the coming weeks/months these fecks get whats coming to them. Swarmed by a mob and beaten to a pulp would be just.
They are the absolute worst. How can they go home to their families and look them in the eye after spending their days oppressing/arresting innocent people.
They are most likely doing the same at home too so it's just business as usual.
Even if it was conducted in a perfect enviroment, asking random people what they think other people think is a horrible way of measuring public opinion.
That one hurt. Stoned me to my soul
Unfortunately, even if Putin falls, nothing bad will happen to those police officers.
There is a long tradition in Russia. The Soviet Union was full of gulags, jailers, torturers, NKDV agents, corrupted police officers, etc. After the fall of the Soviet Union, almost none of them faced any consequences for their actions. (Actually many of them became the new russian state ... almost the same as the old russian state.)
If we dare to dream that Putin isn't succeeded by a similar regime the complete overhaul of the entire siloviki infrastructure will be one of the biggest priorities.
Nice fella, this Kirill.
Not necessarily "new" or shocking info but good to see this happen nevertheless.
Throwing it back to 1095
I hope you succeed! I hope that Russia becomes a democratic nation with solid democratic institutions. Like most countries in Europe.
Having said that, it is very hard for me to imagine this actually happening (although, I must admit I have a very limited knowledge of Russia). I still don't understand how in the 1990s all those thousands of torturers in the gulags faced no consequences. One has to face their past in order to fix their future. Even the best positive examples from the soviet era turned out sour for me. For example, in the 1980s I read almost all of Solzhenitsyn's books and I admired him, but later in the 1990s I was deeply disappointed by him... because it seemed to me that he basically hated the West (that helped him and saved his life) and he just wanted to create a Russian Empire again, not a communist one but one based on theocratic ideas from the 19th century. The West is corrupted, the West is the root of all Evil, the West is dying. These ideas are usually the basis for creating something much worse than what we have in the West, it just feeds autocrats like Putin. We had already seen the same thing happening in Iran after their 1979 revolution. So, even the best of Russia basically worked for creating something terrible.
Is there any reason to hope for something better now?
Situation in Dagestan more tense based on the footage. Wonder if the protests there will hold or fizzle out.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/l...0894f47d8a5464#block-63306f4d8f0894f47d8a5464
US to act 'decisively' if Russia uses nuclear weapon in Ukraine
Edward Helmore
The US and its allies will act “decisively” if Russia uses a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine, its national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday, reaffirming the Joe Biden White House’s previous response to mounting concerns that Vladimir Putin’s threats are in increased danger of being realised.
“We have communicated directly, privately and at very high levels to the Kremlin that any use of nuclear weapons will be met with catastrophic consequences for Russia, that the US and our allies will respond decisively, and we have been clear and specific about what that will entail,” Sullivan told CBS’s Face The Nation.
Sullivan said that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, had been “waving around the nuclear card at various points through this conflict”, and it was a matter that Biden’s administration has “to take deadly seriously because it is a matter of paramount seriousness – the possible use of nuclear weapons for the first time since the second world war”.
US to act 'decisively' if Russia uses nuclear weapon in Ukraine
Edward Helmore
The US and its allies will act “decisively” if Russia uses a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine, its national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday, reaffirming the Joe Biden White House’s previous response to mounting concerns that Vladimir Putin’s threats are in increased danger of being realised.
“We have communicated directly, privately and at very high levels to the Kremlin that any use of nuclear weapons will be met with catastrophic consequences for Russia, that the US and our allies will respond decisively, and we have been clear and specific about what that will entail,” Sullivan told CBS’s Face The Nation.
Sullivan said that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, had been “waving around the nuclear card at various points through this conflict”, and it was a matter that Biden’s administration has “to take deadly seriously because it is a matter of paramount seriousness – the possible use of nuclear weapons for the first time since the second world war”.
I’d imagine we’d do our own ‘special operation’ including setting up the no-fly-zone people have been requesting, essentially shutting down their operations within Ukraine’s borders.
But that’s just amateur conjecture.
Is that a vodka bottle on the table?
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I’d imagine our reaction to the use of a nuclear weapon would exceed the implementation of a no fly zone.
I imagine Russia w…well I don’t even want to speculate on what could happen.
Yes, I mean the reality seems to be sadists are given the power to torture anyone they see fit to terrorise the population. Just imagine a man taking a young lady away and torturing her for next to no reason or no reason. Not that it's better if they torture men, but it seems even more cowardly and abusive. I can't imagine what they're doing to this poor soul either because she sounds in absolute agony.
Well, the collapse will give us a chance of building something right. We failed originally but the world is very different today. Who knows…
I have no idea how Russia will end up after the war and, hopefully, the end of Putin though. But the potential devastating military defeat might make it easier to change the direction of our development.
Nope, simply water, but it certainly looks like one
In addition to weapons, the Ukrainians should store huge amounts of vodka near the front line.
1. Strategic retreat.
2. Russian soldiers get hammered.
3. Counter-attack and smash through the line while they're all wasted.
1. Strategic retreat.
2. Russian soldiers get hammered.
3. Counter-attack and smash through the line while they're all wasted.
Easier said than done, especially with the length of the border with Finland.
Oh Jee...
Exactly how did this idiot get the authority to know or say that? Did he text God and confirm that being cannon fodder in this specific war would erase their sins? Sucks but some people will believe it
It's voda