1. #30101
    Quote Originally Posted by DarkTZeratul View Post
    Yeah, the whole "we're at war with NATO" thing is itself 100% Russian propaganda.
    To play devil's advocate, if China openly supplied Russia with not just ammo but tanks, armed vehicles, training, financial support, would we not say we are at war with China?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nymrohd View Post
    To play devil's advocate, if China openly supplied Russia with not just ammo but tanks, armed vehicles, training, financial support, would we not say we are at war with China?
    It’s a good question, but actually no…

    During the cold war people didn’t say the USA was at war with Russia. They were are war with vietnam, north korea, afghanistan… but not with Russia.

    Are we in a cold war with Russia now? Hmmm maybe kinda sorta, but it’s still a very cold war then.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nymrohd View Post
    To play devil's advocate, if China openly supplied Russia with not just ammo but tanks, armed vehicles, training, financial support, would we not say we are at war with China?
    While that would be unfortunate, we wouldn't be at war with China, no. Just like how Russia isn't at war with everyone supplying Ukraine, when we are providing all of that to them and more.

    No, just lots of grumbling and sanctions being levied at each other.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Veggie50 View Post
    It’s a good question, but actually no…

    During the cold war people didn’t say the USA was at war with Russia. They were are war with vietnam, north korea, afghanistan… but not with Russia.

    Are we in a cold war with Russia now? Hmmm maybe kinda sorta, but it’s still a very cold war then.
    The Korean War was absolutely a proxy war, just not with China. And the US did engage in a host of proxy wars with the USSR; a host of them in Central and South America, several in Africa. This absolutely is a proxy war and I don't understand who exactly it helps to say otherwise. NATO did not start it whatever Russia likes to say; they started hostilities; undermining someone else's periphery is not an act of war neither now nor was it during the Cold War proper.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Santti View Post
    While that would be unfortunate, we wouldn't be at war with China, no. Just like how Russia isn't at war with everyone supplying Ukraine, when we are providing all of that to them and more.

    No, just lots of grumbling and sanctions being levied at each other.
    It would very much be a proxy war between Nato and China played in eastern Ukraine at that point.
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    So russan goverment is now sending ELECTRONIC DRAFT to people to take them from homes for a cannon fodder.

    Once E-DRAFT letter is sent, it is considered by this new Russian law that a draftee received it even if he doesn't see it.
    Don't sweat the details!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yunru View Post
    So russan goverment is now sending ELECTRONIC DRAFT to people to take them from homes for a cannon fodder.

    Once E-DRAFT letter is sent, it is considered by this new Russian law that a draftee received it even if he doesn't see it.
    I believe they already sent electronic drafts, but the law allowed people legally to avoid them that way - so it is the law that changed.

    That doesn't change much though, as I also read Kremlin plans to make life harder for those who refuse or dodge the draft by limiting how they are allowed to leave the country in future etc...

    Glory to Soviet Union.

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    https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-elect.../32359108.html

    The Russian parliament’s lower chamber, the State Duma, has approved in its final reading a bill on electronic military enlistment aimed at making it more difficult for potential draftees to evade duty. According to the bill, the enlistment papers will be sent by both regular mail and electronically. The electronic variant will be considered as delivered to a person seven days after being placed online in an account opened for each person who is eligible for conscription. Many have avoided conscription during Russia's invasion of Ukraine by not picking up mail at their official address.
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...scription.html

    Vladimir Putin appears to be clamping down on Russian men trying to dodge his invasion of Ukraine by creating a new digital conscription system which would leave them unable to flee abroad.

    Under new legislation advanced by Russian lawmakers today, the draftee would be banned from travelling abroad and would have to report to an enlistment office after being called up.

    Currently, draft notices have to be delivered in person in Russia, which many Russian men have managed to doge by refusing to pick up the enlistment orders and fleeing the country.

    Last year, Putin's order to call up hundreds of thousands of men to boost regular forces in Ukraine kicked off an exodus, with tens of thousands rushing to leave the country.

    Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, approved the legislation on second and third readings today, sparking fears more men will be forced to help beef up Putin's regime.
    Later in the article...

    Those who fail to show up at the enlistment office within the 20 days following receipt of the electronic draft notice will not be able to take out loans, register property or work as individual entrepreneurs.
    Probably a lot more sources out there.

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    Wow, so basically show up and get sent into the meatgrinder with no training or gear or withdraw from society and live in the underground, basically.

    Why does it feel like Russia keeps playing a one-nation game of Russian Roulette where they keep shooting themselves in the head but because they haven't blown their entire skull off they keep playing?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yunru View Post
    So russan goverment is now sending ELECTRONIC DRAFT to people to take them from homes for a cannon fodder.

    Once E-DRAFT letter is sent, it is considered by this new Russian law that a draftee received it even if he doesn't see it.
    Also, a draftee is forbidden from leaving the country until checking at the enlistment office, and getting loans, starting a business, selling and buying property and driving if he doesn't check at the recruitment office within 20 days from the set date.

  9. #30109
    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    Wow, so basically show up and get sent into the meatgrinder with no training or gear or withdraw from society and live in the underground, basically.

    Why does it feel like Russia keeps playing a one-nation game of Russian Roulette where they keep shooting themselves in the head but because they haven't blown their entire skull off they keep playing?
    Fascism at it's finest:


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    Unironically that movie is kinda smarter and better than it seems on its face when you view it more as an in-universe propaganda film. It's still a horrible dogshit adaptation of the source material but like...it kind has some legs beyond being a dumb action movie with boobs, butts, and lots of gore. And a Busey.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vladier View Post
    Also, a draftee is forbidden from leaving the country until checking at the enlistment office, and getting loans, starting a business, selling and buying property and driving if he doesn't check at the recruitment office within 20 days from the set date.
    Yeah even more people will leave now, but this time using violence to get out of country.
    Don't sweat the details!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    Unironically that movie is kinda smarter and better than it seems on its face when you view it more as an in-universe propaganda film. It's still a horrible dogshit adaptation of the source material but like...it kind has some legs beyond being a dumb action movie with boobs, butts, and lots of gore. And a Busey.
    I think Verhoeven's style of social criticism is so good that as a rule of thumb the very people who it criticizes completely and utterly miss the point.

    I actually legitimately think the movie was better than the book because the book was unironically fashy.

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    https://apnews.com/article/hungary-m...20in%20Ukraine.

    Hungary really belongs outside the EU. If they are so eager to lick Moscow's boot they are welcome to join Belarus, Transnistria and Serbia in the Ruski Mir.

    I'm really over the antics of Orban and his Hungarian fascists.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    Wow, so basically show up and get sent into the meatgrinder with no training or gear or withdraw from society and live in the underground, basically.

    Why does it feel like Russia keeps playing a one-nation game of Russian Roulette where they keep shooting themselves in the head but because they haven't blown their entire skull off they keep playing?
    I'm sure their notes will be fantastic.
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    Quit using other posters as levels of crazy. That is not ok


    If you look, you can see the straw man walking a red herring up a slippery slope coming to join this conversation.

  14. #30114
    video of Russian forces beheading a Ukrainian soldier while he is alive circulating. International coalition need to treat Russians like ISIS.

  15. #30115
    Quote Originally Posted by jonnysensible View Post
    video of Russian forces beheading a Ukrainian soldier while he is alive circulating. International coalition need to treat Russians like ISIS.
    And do what exactly? Risk WW3? We have this period in history between 45 to 91 that shows why that's a very very bad idea to risk it over anything.

  16. #30116
    Quote Originally Posted by Kallisto View Post
    And do what exactly? Risk WW3? We have this period in history between 45 to 91 that shows why that's a very very bad idea to risk it over anything.
    yup absolutely risk ww3 lets fucking bang these cunts.

  17. #30117
    https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kxv...-getting-chemo

    Wait, some Russian general(s) are planning to "throw" the war while Putin's gettin radiated? Is this the closest to official confirmation we've seen that Putin has some form of cancer?

    Anyways, for once I'm rooting for the cancer to win and be as miserable and awful as possible throughout the process. I want him shitting in bags involuntarily and shit.

  18. #30118
    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kxv...-getting-chemo

    Wait, some Russian general(s) are planning to "throw" the war while Putin's gettin radiated? Is this the closest to official confirmation we've seen that Putin has some form of cancer?

    Anyways, for once I'm rooting for the cancer to win and be as miserable and awful as possible throughout the process. I want him shitting in bags involuntarily and shit.
    IMO, cancer is far too slow for an execution and is too natural and not karmic enough to be a punishment. Good people die to cancer and don't have the treatment available to a dictator ruling over a country with modern medicine and standards of living (in the part where said dictator lives). Putin will, sadly, manage well enough.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kxv...-getting-chemo

    Wait, some Russian general(s) are planning to "throw" the war while Putin's gettin radiated? Is this the closest to official confirmation we've seen that Putin has some form of cancer?

    Anyways, for once I'm rooting for the cancer to win and be as miserable and awful as possible throughout the process. I want him shitting in bags involuntarily and shit.
    Let's hope this one is true. But for me the cancer needs to be quick and aggressive.

  20. #30120
    Quote Originally Posted by jonnysensible View Post
    video of Russian forces beheading a Ukrainian soldier while he is alive circulating. The international coalition need to treat Russians like ISIS.
    Yes, I saw this. It's not too hard to find (literally on front page of reddit), albeit I wouldn't recommend anyone see it.

    But no, nothing will be done about it, unfortunately. I think the reason Russians do this and film snuff is because of the leverage Kallisto mentioned: they know we won't go to war with them; hell, they even bragged about it recently by saying "this is who we are, fear us."

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