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Wow!! You can't make this shit up...When just smoking isn't enough:
Pro-War Russians Duped Into Torching Kremlin Military Offices
REUTERS/Viacheslav RatynskyiThroughout Russia’s war against Ukraine, baffling reports of Russian pensioners trying to set military enlistment offices on fire have emerged with amusing frequency.But they’re not what you may think.Seen at first glance by some as brave protests against the war, the...www.yahoo.com
I think they realize everybody would run away and they'd be left without any people to rule over.Internal passports and travel permits have a long history in Russia and the USSR. The czars, the commissars, the kaisers, and those of similar ilk have many things in common, but one of them is that people should stay put.
Putting this here even though it is only tangentially linked - Mods please move elsewhere or otherwise if you see fit:
US prosecutors say leak suspect kept arsenal of weapons, wanted to kill a 'ton of people'
Arguing he should remain in jail, prosecutors say the Massachusetts Air National guardsman accused of leaking classified military documents poses a grave threat to national security.www.abc.net.au
I read this and think we may well have dodged another mass shooting incident.
I think they realize everybody would run away and they'd be left without any people to rule over.
Assuming the "Donetsk People's Republic" and "Luhansk People's Republic" are overrun by the AFU this year, I don't think there will ever again be powerful and armed Russian-centric separatist groups/gangs in Ukraine. Never is a long time I admit, so we can't know for certain, but I expect Zelenskyy to order a purge, at ground level leaning towards la Terreur, to clear out any Ukrainian residents who would prefer to be Russians. At best they'll be collected, railed and bused to the border with Russia and pushed over.In the last few days I noticed an increased partisan activity. And that is only what is available in the news.
Bugger being anyone running against him.That said, Zelensky would win by a landslide.