ICTChris Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 Guardian report on the mobilisation effort. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/22/my-heart-sank-with-news-of-draft-russians-flee-in-droves?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other I wonder what the affect on the Russian economy this will have. There have been photographs leaked showing Gazprom engineers being called up, which is pretty astonishing given the importance of that colony and sector to Russia. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 5 hours ago, TxRover said: IDK, while the emptying of the Germans and replacement with Russians resulted in todays 87% ethnic Russian population, if Russia itself moves in a more progressive direction, Belarus or Poland (assuming a more rightward swing in the manner of Hungary) might be interesting to them. But, your mileage may vary. ^^^ word salad The Russian population of Kaliningrad are not and never will opt for Polish rule. In the same way that Texas is not going to opt for rule by Mexico. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 57 minutes ago, ICTChris said: Guardian report on the mobilisation effort. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/22/my-heart-sank-with-news-of-draft-russians-flee-in-droves?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other I wonder what the affect on the Russian economy this will have. There have been photographs leaked showing Gazprom engineers being called up, which is pretty astonishing given the importance of that colony and sector to Russia. There must be quite a few Nordstream engineers with free time until they start shifting supply lines to the South East. I doubt the middle class flight will make much difference to Putin's conscription efforts, most people won't be able to afford travelling abroad without a job to go to. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 Mobilised Russian reservists already fighting: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 3 hours ago, virginton said: ^^^ word salad The Russian population of Kaliningrad are not and never will opt for Polish rule. In the same way that Texas is not going to opt for rule by Mexico. Funny you should say that, as the Independent Texas Movement here has a plan for a Confederation with Mexico, with the belief the industrious Anglos in Texas will dominate that arrangement and then be able to create a Greater Texas. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 Right then, one more time you c***s, just be fucking happy, it's not difficult ffs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 Iranian kamikaze drones above Odessa. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Self-raising Lazarus Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 23 minutes ago, ICTChris said: Underrated bounce down from the step there midway through. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 One of the drones was shot down 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 2 hours ago, welshbairn said: Right then, one more time you c***s, just be fucking happy, it's not difficult ffs. "How staged do you want this to look?" "Yes". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jagfox Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 I'm 115% certain the occupied territories will vote to join Russia... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 1 minute ago, jagfox said: I'm 115% certain the occupied territories will vote to join Russia... Voting ends on Tuesday but they already had the turnout figures early this morning, these Russian pollsters don't f**k about. Quote MOSCOW, September 23, 2022. The All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM) presents data from a survey commissioned by the Expert Institute for Social Research (EISI) among residents of the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions on voting on the issue of territorial belonging of these regions. Most of the residents of the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions surveyed declare their intention to take part in the voting on the issue of the territorial affiliation of these regions. The maximum declared turnout was recorded in the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics - 87% each. In the Zaporozhye region, the figure was 80%, in the Kherson region - 69%. The absolute majority of the polled residents of the DPR and LPR, who are ready to take part in the referendum, are in favor of the republics joining the Russian Federation as subjects of the Russian Federation (97% each). Difficult to answer or undecided on the decision for 3%. The polled residents of Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, declaring their intention to take part in the voting, also support secession from Ukraine and the inclusion of regions into Russia as its subjects (87% and 89%, respectively). 2% of the residents of these regions oppose such a decision, every tenth found it difficult to answer or has not yet decided (11% and 9%, respectively). https://wciom-ru.translate.goog/analytical-reviews/analiticheskii-obzor/referendumy-na-ukraine-javka-i-golosovanie?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 Quote Russian authorities plan to conscript 1.2 million people for their “partial mobilization,” Meduza has learned from a source close to one of the country’s federal ministries. Additionally, a source close to Moscow’s leadership told Meduza that up to 16,000 people from the capital are slated to be drafted. This was confirmed by a source close to one of Russia’s federal ministries. Authorities in St. Petersburg plan to draft roughly 3,200 people, according to a source close to the Presidential Envoy to Russia’s Northwestern Federal District. A source close to one of the country’s federal ministries noted that authorities “recommended keeping recruitments to a minimum” in regional capitals. Instead, the government is conscripting people “in rural areas, where there’s no media, no opposition, and more support [for the war],” said the source. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/09/23/russia-to-conscript-up-to-1-2-million-people 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clown Job Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 Realistic… If Russia did use a nuclear weapon in Ukraine What would the international response be? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Joe Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 11 minutes ago, Clown Job said: Realistic… If Russia did use a nuclear weapon in Ukraine What would the international response be? I can't speak for anyone else in the world, but I would be pretty disappointed with Putin. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 13 minutes ago, Clown Job said: Realistic… If Russia did use a nuclear weapon in Ukraine What would the international response be? China would drop them like a stone, and however NATO responded Russia wouldn't gain by it, best outcome for them would be we all lose. I don't think there's a chance of it happening unless somebody blows up the Kremlin. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jacksgranda Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 On 22/09/2022 at 07:50, Sweet Pete said: So, just to summarise the last few pages: there's such things as 'low radiation' nuclear weapons; Britain overthrew the legitimate Ukrainian government and installed Zelensky; Britain (or 'the West') have been arming Ukraine in a proxy war for years and are placing nukes inside Ukraine to threaten Russia, leaving Putin no choice but to invade Ukraine (are these nukes the 'low radiation' variety...?); Russia's new 300,000 recruits will definitely be better trained and equipped than the entire army they've burned through since February, because they are definitely going to overhaul their entire culture militarily between now and the deployment of the new forced troops. Wow. Aye, that's a fair precis... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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