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It seems that the man responsible for the current Russian recruiting debacle in one district, to provide cannon fodder for their ongoing disaster in Ukraine, was found dead near a fence at his home. Some reports say he hanged himself, but no one has yet explained how he also cut himself down afterwards and got to where he was found, and no points for guessing how many times he also shot himself in the back of the head and stabbed himself before settling on hanging as the best method of suicide.
"There is rising fury over mobilisation officials forcibly recruiting men with little or no training in apparent violation of the rules. Armed conscript-snatching teams of enlistment officers backed by police have been operating in Russian cities, grabbing men on underground trains, on the street, and in offices."
Either way, whether through popular insurgency, or official displeasure, it's pleasing to know that at least one more lieutenant colonel of the Russian Army will be in a warm place for all eternity. And it's yet another data point letting you know just how well the war is going for Russia, and the actual nature of both popular and official support for it.
As noted in comments, the Potemkin Army is suffering from Potemkin readiness and Potemkin recruiting, which explains much about their Potemkin success. Some folks are going to need to stock up on condiments for all the crow and shit sandwiches they'll be eating if this continues apace. Boo frickin' hoo.
Oddly after reading the linked article from the British Tabloid Daily Mirror there was none of the lurid stabbing and other exaggerations you added to the soup.
ReplyDeleteThe Daily Mirror, what's next The Star or other Walmart rumor rag?
I think I'll cross post this to as many sites as I can. Aesop are you posting drunk?
Conscription is an historical norm, not an anomaly. Why does this make you clutch your pearls and look for the fainting couch?? The U.S. does the same vis-a-vis Keeping both the rural White Southern male and the Black ghetto dwelling male in poverty so as to get them to 'volunteer'. It's sugarcoated Conscription.
ReplyDeleteGood on Vlad if he won't let the hippies flee to Canada. He saw what happened to the U.S. when we let the inmates run the asylum.
This isn't just conscription, this is outright Press gangs, which show how desperate they are...
DeleteI’m sure there’s a joke about Putin cutting down on rampant Russian alcoholism via conscription somewhere…
ReplyDeleteCan I get fries with my sandwich?
ReplyDeletePlease
I have been using the Institute for the Study of War as a cautious and reasonable information source without the blatant propaganda and over the top cheerleading of the media and the Twitterverse. I just got reminded ISW is Neo-Conservative and Pro-War with their October 16 Editorial which says Ukraine must retake their entire country, including Crimea and the break-away Donbas region.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-october-16
Now we are hearing that we must provide Ukraine with another Billion or two in offensive weapons like ATACMS missiles and modern Western tanks and modern Western Fighters. That will not escalate tensions at all. After all, Crazy Putin will not escalate to tactical nuclear weapons. Only crazy people like Putin would do something so crazy as using nuclear weapons. /sarc
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Wonder if this's more of a 'local-local-local' situation than a broader statement political hit... as in Dude's "recruiters" snatched a relative of someone connected i.e. Mafiya or whatnot, and this was a message. So to keep a lid on it and prevent others from getting ideas, a 'suicide' keeps others from following suit all over Da Rodina?
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ReplyDeleteThanks for putting the "anal" in analysis, as usual. IIRC, it was the National Enquirer that broke the story of Monica Lewinsky's DNA-splattered blue dress. And we all know how false that turned out to be. But hey, I'm sure you can link to 17 other stories of rear-echelon lieutenant colonels in the Russian Army turning up all dead to show this was nothing exceptional. Your move chief.
@Mahtomedi,
No one's clutching pearls, I'm laughing my ass off at this, but why let reality interrupt a good screed, right? Conscription per se is normal. Rampant press-ganging of old men and cripples off the streets, not so much, even in the Rodina. The internet moves pretty fast, and you're at least a week behind. As between 700,000 and 1M military-aged males have already fled Russia for more congenial pastures to all points of the compass except the North Pole to avoid conscription into the 1st Ukrainian Cannon Fodder Brigade, "not letting the hippies flee to Canada" is a horse that's already left the barn. 0 for 2.
@BCE,
Could have gone either way. Could have been local retribution for a host of reasons, or dude could've gotten himself Putincided by direction, for being another recruiting mission fuck-up. And the local cheka are investigating it as a homicide, not a suicide. Either way, all is not sunshine and unicorns in Putin's Wannabe Soviet Union, where apparently they can't get anything right, and I need more popcorn.
I do wonder what the Putin fans think they are accomplishing by not acknowledging any of the open and obvious problems with how Russia is doing things?
ReplyDeleteIf they were watching their team lose a football game, they would deny Every. Single. Fumble, sack, missed pass, missed tackle, bad play, missed kick, penalty, or touchdown by the other side.
Denying obvious problems just makes them look pathological... and maybe they just are.
"If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
ReplyDeleteNever pass up a good opportunity to shut up." - Will Rogers
@anon
ReplyDeleteWhat makes you think their nukes will work any better than the rest of their military?
They can't even properly maintain tires on their trucks. How well do you think complicated things like nukes will go? Keep in mind, you're talking about people who designed, sited, and built melty nuclear reactors all over their country.
Their nukes are probably as Potemkin as the rest of their military.
Even the vaunted Armata is Potemkin. They don't have enough money to build them and they either can't get them to run in a parade or can't train the crew well enough to drive them in a parade.
Their nukes might not explode but don't doubt the ability of their rocket engines to get them here. We've launched over 90 satellites into orbit for the past 20 years using RUSSIAN rocket engines. WITHOUT A SINGLE FAILURE.
DeleteWhy are you so fixated on Russia? Are you Victoria Nuland's cousin or something? Gonzalo Lira has a great explanation of the Russian hatred. You should find it, seriously, maybe you are of Ukrainian ancestry and hate Russia.
ReplyDeleteI don't hate Russia. My kids won't die fighting Russia in Ukraine for a corrupt Ukrainian regime, Why, because we will die here instead fighting our own corrupt regime. Nobody gives a fuck about Russia or China, we have our own corruption to try to survive. Be more like Matt Bracken informing us of what weapons our own govt will be unleashing against us and how to counter. Nobody believes Russia fear porn. You should focus on us. BTW how did your covid fear porn age? Did someone replace you like they did Matt Drudge? I mean Jesus, how about helping Americans?
I see. You're one of the Special People.
ReplyDelete1) Which other potential global thermonuclear conflicts would you like to talk about?
2) I don't hate Russia at all. I think Russians, man for man, are pretty spiffy. But Putin has a special circle of Hell reserved for him when he dies, and he should do everything possible to get himself there, ASAP, up to and including eating a gun. Their government has been a walking fustercluck since the leader was the Tsar, and nothing has changed in the last 200 years, which is always its own reward.
3) You're obviously totally ignorant of the fact that I've said consistently that i don't want one American life wasted to defend Ukraine, and I stand by that. They're doing a splendid job of kicking Vlad's ass militarily. Given the choice between our stuff rotting into obsolescence, I think using it to hamstring Russian militaristic adventurism for the next generation is a great use of it. And $16B spent to see to that is a far better use of it than sending it to welfare queens and illegal aliens. Just as, back in the day, selling old TOW missiles to Iran to blow up Iraqi tanks, and using the profits to fund the Contras killing communists in Nicaragua was a "neat idea", to quote Ollie North. Unfortunately right now we're still doing both Ukraine and welfare queens, because we have an installed Emperor instead of an elected president. And I'm fine with fighting that here, the minute the ball opens.
4) Anybody that doesn't give "a fuck about Russia or China" is an idiot, with delusions of intelligence. If Russia reforms itself in Soviet Union 2.0, this time we'll have Russia proper on the border with NATO, to whom we have serious and binding treaty obligations, which is exactly why Sweden, Finland, and Ukraine want in on that deal, and why the most ardent converts to halting Russian militarism are the Baltic republics, Poland, the Czech republic, Slovakia, Hungary, etc. etc.
5) You've evidently only started reading this blog 5 minutes ago if you think my focus is any different than Bracken's (as he's commented here many times), or that I've neglected in any way how to counter what's coming for us. I fact, I've pounded that drum ceaselessly for months on end, and I'll match you paychecks you haven't done the first fucking thing on any 10 lists of suggestions I've made in that regard.
6) There wasn't any COVID fear porn here, I told you (and told you, and told you, and told you) that at worst, COVID would have a lethality rate of about 3%. NYFS hit 2.8%, and NJ hit 2.8%, so I'm chalking that up as hitting it out of the park. (COVID averages 1-5% lethality historically, before it became politicized, and I simply split that average right down the middle, and nailed it. Eat shit, dumbass.) I also told you quite presciently and perspicaciously that the biggest problem with COVID wasn't the disease itself, but the second-, third-, and fourth-order follow-on events, which would be range from major to life-changing. Like, just for two examples, the political and economic havoc it was going to wreak on society. So, now that you had a national presidential election stolen right in your face, have Banana Republic Emperor Stumblefuck Poopypants sitting in the throne room, gasoline at $6/gal. and rising, and inflation far higher than the worst days of Jimmy Carter, as we slide from recession to Depression, with the entire world economy on the edge of complete meltdown, where's your similar predictions coming true, to equal or surpass exactly what I warned you about? Show your work.
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ReplyDelete7) Every post I've ever written - save ONE, and I'll point it out to you on request - sits unaltered exactly where I left it right here on this blog, and the entire blog is archived and searchable. So to complain so hard and so wrongly about me not doing the exact thing I've been doing non-stop for more than a decade paints you pretty succinctly as someone who's either never read this blog for five minutes, or else someone who can't muster five IQ points. I don't know you well enough to decide which is likelier, but one or two more such screeds will narrow it down pretty handily.
I doubt you could name any two things I've suggested people do to prepare, and I'm even more sure you haven't done anything I have suggested, unless it was by accident.
So, Jesus, how about helping yourself out, and doing them? If the world situation is too much for you to deal with, stick to the comics section and watching sportsball on TV.
Hey glad some of you all are in for sending billions of your tax payer dollars over there then back here for the grift.
ReplyDeletePutin is the only one who can stop that shit.
Nuclear holocaust, ain't scared I know where I'm going.
Yeah.
ReplyDeleteWhen hard cash was being exchanged.
Are the rockets stuffed in the silos getting the same level of maintenance as the rockets being hired for space shots?
ReplyDeleteTake a Beech C-90- a pretty good aircraft design- and stick it fueled and ready to go in a hanger. It doesn't take long for it to be unflyable if it's not regularly maintained.
Where were the clintons at time of "suicide"??? Asking for a friend......Pittbull
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