Putin signs law to mobilize 300,000 Russian men of fighting age

To join the front line as cannon fodder for the war against Ukraine. Within minutes Google searches for one way plane tickets out of Russia to the few remaining Russian friendly destinations including Tel Aviv jump 400%. Airline seat prices also sky rocket.

The law has also been changed to make avoiding conscription a crime punishable by jail time.

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Abstraction · 61-69, M

In January Russia was recognised as the world's second best army in the world. Now they are recognised as the second best army in Ukraine.

helenS · 36-40, F

@Abstraction On the other hand, the second-best army in Ukraine can still torture and rape and kill people, by the thousands.

Abstraction · 61-69, M

@helenS Profoundly, profoundly disturbing. My humour is in some senses relief that they are being found wanting and thereby humiliating the vicious regime. Also very little is said about the forcible transfer of Ukrainians to Russia also. I hope their army collapses and leads to regime collapse. It's quite possible.

RodionRomanovitch · 56-60, M

@Abstraction They're actually the [b]third[/b] best army in Ukraine. Wagner's bunch of mercenaries , misfits and convicts are a better fighting force than the regular Russian army.

graphite · 61-69, M

@Abstraction Russia kind of got exposed as a military fraud when its troops were found crying in the battleifled, calling their mothers with their cellphones, and that overweight, out-of-shape pilot got shot down. No way a guy in that kind of shape gets anywhere near a US fighter jet.