Posts by gentlestag15

Terry Green3 said:Shoigu mentioned a plan to bring 300,000 reservists into the rotation.

Now that’s what I call a massive mobilization wave.

Shoigu basically went on record saying they'll only pull in reservists with actual service history or specific technical skills, then followed up by noting there's a pool of 25,000,000 guys out there who've already served and have those specialties.

We aren't talking about just one or two million people here—we're talking about a huge chunk of the male population in Russia under sixty.

Nancy Gomez26 said:I didn't sit through the entire speech because I was stuck watching those subtitles—which honestly drive me up the wall—but from what I gathered, there was some nonsense about preserving the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation. Let’s be clear: Russia isn't launching an attack, nor is its own sovereignty under threat. What we are seeing in Ukraine is nothing more than standard territorial expansionism disguised as defense. By his logic, any nation could invade its neighbors and claim they're simply "protecting their borders." It’s a completely moronic way to frame reality.

They'll probably annex those regions into Russia within a week; they already snatched up Crimea
under that whole "territorial integrity" delusion this guy is peddling

Paul Sanders5 said:Looks like every single guy on the list just got hit.

Quick trivia question for the group: how long do you think they’ll actually be waiting for that summons to arrive? 😁

Once our resident forum legend Ivan the Terrible gets his mobilization notice...
😁

Putin: Russia Has more modern nukes Than the West. will Use All weapons if Russian territory is threatened. "We are not bluffing."

So, basically, he sets up those rigged referendums to pull off an annexation of those regions, and then if the Ukrainians try to push back, he claims he's got the right to drop the nukes.
Because suddenly, they're attacking American-aligned territory or whatever.

Partial mobilization kicks off today
We’ve heard this all before, haven't we?
The West wants to dismantle Russia, all this talk about neo-Nazis and reclaiming historical Russian lands like Novorossiya...
Then they throw those indirect nuclear threats out there again.
Same old story, same old nonsense.
Total lunacy.

hollowdriver13 said:Honestly, I think they’re totally misreading the room over in the West if they believe these fake referendums and forced annexations—or even the threat of mobilization—are going to make the West back down.

Ever since this whole war kicked off, it's just been one bad assumption after another. If anything, you should actually expect the West to ramp up military aid if they pull moves like that.

If the West doesn't go full 100% sanctions mode after that, they never will.
Total shutdown of all trade, goods, money...
Every single diplomat sent home, every last one, and any Russians without residency status kicked out too.

I really hope this is just a glitch in the system since the old man is taking forever to reply, rather than some kind of massive diarrhea session that lasts for hours.

Let’s take a quick trip down memory lane to what Putko was saying back in 2014 right after the annexation of Crimea.

"Vladimir Putin in 2014: Don’t believe those who try to frighten you with Russia and who scream that other regions will follow after Crimea. We do not want a partition of Ukraine, we do not need this."
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Here’s how Putin plans to handle mobilization

My strategy? I'll just declare the Donbass to be Russia, and suddenly those conscripts won't have any legal leg to stand on when they try to dodge fighting there. Problem solved—no more shortage of cannon fodder for me.

Bryan Booth82 said:I'm asking myself the exact same thing. What is the actual point of this referendum farce?
Best,

It's just about manufacturing a shred of legitimacy, even if it's only for their own people back in Russia.
They want to be able to walk into the Duma later and pretend they're following some democratic process or legal standard when they actually annex everything into the Russian Federation.
Besides, most of the actual population in those regions either fled to Ukraine or headed over to Russia anyway, so they don't even have the nerve to push this through properly.
Honestly, Stalin would be proud.

The Russian stock market just took a massive nosedive following those headlines about the referendum and potential mobilization.
https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPR/sta...00438904287232

Old man Putin is playing an all-or-nothing game here. He isn't even thinking about retiring after that whole disaster in Ukraine; instead, he’d much rather send the next generation of Russian kids to go rot in the dirt over there.

Thomas Stewart8 said:What can we actually expect if this all goes through and a full-scale mobilization really happens?

Honestly, you'd likely end up with a massive, incompetent army that has zero morale left. I don't see how Putin expects to win this war by triggering a mass mobilization, no matter how he tries to spin the justification to the public. 🤔

Putin doesn't even need a total mass mobilization; he could just target those who left the service in the last three or four years.
A few hundred thousand mobilized guys won't even make a dent in the sheer scale of Russia.

Christian Torres3 said:If they call up a mobilization, you'll just end up with a bunch of useless junk sitting in Moscow and St. Petersburg while the actual front line doesn't move an inch. Plus, all the rich guys will find ways to dodge service, which is basically just asking for riots.

There’s this thing in stock trading called a stop loss—you cut your losses before they bury you. Russia is already deep in the red with no way to turn the trend around; someone really needs to start thinking about an exit strategy.

I mean, there will be some kind of military impact. Even if you just stick them in trenches and tell them not to move, they've effectively freed up other units for things like offensives.
It’ll be a lot harder for Ukrainians to push forward when there are more bodies standing in their way, even if those guys were drafted.

It looks like Russia is clearing the decks for mobilization, and honestly, it feels like a done deal at this point.

They’ve already announced referendums for Zaporizhzhia, Donbas, and Kherson.
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Over in the Russian Duma, they're already pushing to officially annex those territories once the votes wrap up.
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Medvedev is out there claiming that once these areas become part of Russia, the country will have every right to call up a mobilization, since they supposedly act as a buffer protecting Russia from attacks.
https://twitter.com/StratcomCentre/s...86256100003840

Meanwhile, the Duma is even floating a new law to crack down on anyone who fails to show up when called for mobilization.
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/st...046082/photo/1

Kate Lewis3 said:I just don't see the logic in trying to wipe out minorities when the people in the Donbas being "genocided" by Ukrainization for the last eight years are ethnically Russian.

According to the last census in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, it was roughly 60% Ukrainian and 40% Russian. So, you have to wonder—where did all those Ukrainians go?
They're scattered all over Europe and Kyiv. They either fled or were forced out. The Russians didn't get rid of a minority here; they went after the majority.

The hits on local traitors just keep coming
Over in Memphis, the resistance took out another collaborator—Denis Stefankov, the guy acting as "Chief of the State Police"
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Jessica Peterson2 said:Precisely. From what I understand, if someone wants to renounce their Ukrainian citizenship, they have to file a formal request, and then the state authorities decide whether all the necessary criteria have been met. Honestly, I haven't the slightest clue where one would even go to submit such a request—say, in a place like Buffalo or Mariupol.

Look, this goes way beyond just switching passports; we're talking about outright treason and collaborating with the enemy here. People living under occupation are ditching their citizenship for the occupier's papers, which basically means if they don't have their Ukrainian documents, they're just illegal residents acting as collaborators on Ukrainian soil.
Ukraine can declare all of that null and void, but the real question is whether Russia—where these people are now citizens—will actually play along.

rustywalker82 said:But did they actually get blood on their hands?
Swapping citizenship is definitely treasonous, no question about it. But you also have to consider that fear or total coercion can drive people to do crazy things. We need some kind of official authority—like a court or a legal body—to step in and decide if these people were truly forced into it or if they chose it themselves. That's what the rule of law is for.

At the end of the day, they’re just foreign nationals living in Ukraine on visa waivers now.
Whatever their reasons or motivations for taking Russian citizenship might have been, they effectively walked away from being Ukrainian. If they want that status back, they can file an application for Ukrainian citizenship like everyone else. Until that's sorted out, they don't have any right to be in Ukraine without a visa, so they should probably just head for the border. 😁

rustywalker82 said:Why on earth would Ukrainians working in civil service jobs under the legitimate pre-war government suddenly decide to liberate themselves just so they can be exiled to Russia?
I'm not even surprised. It’s just more media propaganda aimed at Ukraine.

Look, I agree that we shouldn't go looking for trouble right now. Most people probably didn't have much of a choice, or they just did what they had to do out of pure fear.
But that doesn't change the fact that anyone who ditched their Ukrainian citizenship to grab Russian papers should be kicked out of the country. At this point, they're basically foreign nationals on Ukrainian soil.
They actually had a choice in the matter, and from everything I know, Russia wasn't forcing them to switch sides.

wiredseal7 said:Right, so I guess "initiative organizers" are getting blown up now too. At this rate, we'll be targeting internet activists next.

Anyone can hire security if they want to play it safe.

Organizing an initiative in an occupied city to help that city join the occupier
man, that's basically a death sentence in pretty much any country on Earth.
The ultimate homegrown traitor.

wiredseal7 said:Don't try to dictate the rules here.
Legal proceedings—sure—but assassination? No. Let me repeat: she’s a university president. Whether you call it treason or not doesn't change the fact that it's a 100% civilian job. Just like anywhere else in the world.
The CIA, as I mentioned before, still goes after civilian scientists—university professors in Iran, for instance—so it's pretty clear what they are.

Besides, it's not like the population should just stop breathing, eating, going to school, seeing a doctor, or—generally speaking—surviving just because they're under occupation.
But that's not how the Kyiv clique thinks—they're busy pushing Nazi-style laws where you could face 15 years in prison just for, say, accepting food.

How easy it is to put on those blue-and-yellow glasses and cheer for terrorism. Priceless. 🙏 🙏

What are you even talking about? This woman is one of the main organizers pushing for Kherson to join Russia, so she’s being targeted because of that, not just because she happens to be a university president.
She’s got a Russian bodyguard, and honestly, that says everything you need to know about her standing.

George Robinson43 said:It is truly remarkable to watch those pro-Russia agitators whine about the collaborators who are getting exactly what they deserve.

Absolutely priceless. 🙏 🙏

Nobody even bothers to ask why some innocent, blameless university dean happens to have a Russian bodyguard🤣

wiredseal7 said:What do I care about Russian troubles or this whole war, other than sharing the fate of the people "on this side" via my heating bill?☕

This guy is a joke. No, he didn't say it (which I wasn't claiming either), but his whole map is a mess. Wide Ukrainian arrows crossing the Oskil river? Liman without Russians? You have to agree that doesn't match what's actually happening on the ground.

Russia pulled a brutal blitz offensive that worked because it was fast—but they're finding their footing now and, logically, they've dug in at the river as a defensive line.
If it's hard for the Russians to move large troop numbers into Kherson, the same laws of physics apply to the Ukrainian troops at the Oskil river—which, let's be real, is wide and exposed.

A purely civilian role, not even a government position, and they attempt an assassination?
The Ukrainians have really leaned into terrorism—very Mossad-style.

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This woman stepped up to help bring Kherson back into Russia, so she’s not just some civilian—she's a local traitor working for the foreign occupier.