So Russia's great and wise leader, Vladimir Putin, has called for partial mobilisation. Isaac is going to tell us how criminal such a decision was, any moment now. — Olivier5
Unlike your good self, I don't feel the need to use discussion forums just to tell the world how I feel about things. — Isaac
when it's Russian leaders not keeping their promises and mobilizing their reservists, nope, he hasn't got anything to say. — ssu
But when a country imposes conscription on its citizens, it begs the question, for whose interests is the country acting? Is the country mobilizing to save its citizens, or is it mobilizing to save the existing power structure? — _db
What is full mobilization? 25 million people in the case of Russia? I think they worry that the partial mobilization will call them.The people fleeing are likely fleeing to avoid the next step - full mobilisation. — I like sushi
Actually it is to mobilize reservists, those who already have served their military service (conscription). Those that are on the military payroll have already been through. The idea was to use only these volunteer soldiers and not the conscripts in Ukraine. But the likely fact is that conscripts, those that aren't raw recruits, have been used in Ukraine for a long time already.I was just pointing out that ‘partial mobilisation’ is about putting people on the military payroll into battle. If someone is willing to sign up and take money that is their choice. — I like sushi
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