nwdiver
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arming dis-illusioned youth might be counter-productive and revolution inducing.
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arming dis-illusioned youth might be counter-productive and revolution inducing.
follow the money and you will find corruption. USA has plenty of it including this huge COVID fraud case this week:Putin does everything legally. In most cases he has the Duma to change the law to say what he wants. However the Russians have been paranoid enough about WMDs they have put in lots of safeguards to prevent a rogue actor from using them (Putin is paranoid about a rogue actor using them on him).
Additionally the US watches all Russian nuclear storage facilities and production facilities via satellite very closely. Russian nuclear forces have been completely on a peace tine footing with no hint they are preparing to use nuclear weapons.
The downwind situation from using a nuke would cause fallout across southern Asia ticking off a lot of countries he needs.
I don't think Putin trusts the Chechens and the private forces are the only thing holding the front together. Pulling Wagner out of the line could lead to a Ukrainian breakthrough.
Putin has had riot police who are tasked with putting down protests. He sent a lot of them to Ukraine to keep order after his three day war. Many of them are dead now, burned up as infantry. To stop protests he only has local police. Once local police are overwhelmed there will be no way to put doen protests.
The Duma is basically chosen by Putin's people. They manipulate the vote to ensure Putin allies always win. They basically do Putin's bidding.
Putin is much more concerned about protests turning into an overthrow of his government.
That's probably true, though there are over 2 million Crimeans between 18 and 60. There is a pool of young men to draw on.
Since the war began the government has been cracking down on corruption. Ukraine is a lot less corrupt today than it was a year ago. The war has accelerated a trend towards a stable and healthy democracy that has been ongoing since 2014. No country is 100% free of corruption, but that shouldn't be a major worry about Ukraine for a while at least.
follow the money and you will find corruption. USA has plenty of it including this huge COVID fraud case this week:
US: 48 exploited pandemic to steal $250M from food program
Federal authorities have charged 48 people in what they're calling the largest pandemic-related fraud scheme yet uncovered. The defendants allegedly stole $250 million from a federal program that provides mealswww.wfmz.com
This one may end out being among the most valuable contributions so long as there are many of them and the training people need for using them is included right now.
I doubt most of them will last that long. I've also seen reports of factory workers being summonsed to go directly to military units which will end up on the border within a few days from now. No training, just off you go.
They seem surprisingly optimistic. Guess reality will hit them in a few weeks/months
To repeat a phrase I have seen a lot in the Institute for Study of War in the last couple months:Yep, from "Agency News" - An independent Russian news channel on Telegram:
Novaya Gazeta.Europe also reported on Thursday, citing one source in the presidential administration, that the seventh clause of the presidential mobilization decree, hidden under the heading "For Official Use", actually allows you to call up a million people, and not 300,000, as said Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. The Kremlin called this publication a "lie".
Context. The day before, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that those who served, have a military specialty and combat experience will be mobilized first of all.
At the same time, Putin's decree on mobilization does not indicate any restrictions on the age, category of fitness or territory of those called up for war. Also, the restrictions did not appear in the orders of the military commissars of several regions, which were published the day before.
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I noticed that Putin emphasised "partial mobilization" in his adress yesterday. This surely means it's not that at all. Just like when he said he's not bluffing when he really is.
I can’t your link to open, but I had seen reference to it last night. This morning there is another article with more info and a diagram. Note the reference to Starlink. Apologies if this duplicates what you posted.A Ukrainian bomb boat washed ashore near Sevastopol
Mysterious Uncrewed Vessel Washes Up in Russian-Occupied Crimea
Very MacGyver, but one may have gone off on a target yesterday.
That would much better match their mobilization numbers of 300K-1M.Anonymous leaks from the Kremlin re deaths
59 373 military
17 561 PMC's
4638 National guard.
Thats KIA or MIA and not including LDR DPR
Anonymous leaks from the Kremlin re deaths
59 373 military
17 561 PMC's
4638 National guard.
Thats KIA or MIA and not including LDR DPR
Sure but you are missing my greater point is that when there is money involved corruption happens (btw: pick a US program that has substantial $ associated with it and you will find significant losses due to fraud....ie, Medicare/Medicaid, Covid, etc). Bad actor Governments pilfer more easily but like I said if there is substantial money available, fraud follows.What we are talking is government officials stealing from the government, particularly high government officials.
Not private citizens defrauding the government.
The amount of stealing by high government American officials pails to what is going in Russia. Putin might be the wealthiest individual on Earth. China is probably a lot less than Russia but still way more than the USA.
And in the USA it is a lot more than the Scandinavian countries. Even the perception that you might be corrupt gets you tossed from politics in the Scandinavian countries.