https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4NkYrh6kns
There is a reason why Ruzzia pay up-front... many of them do not last the first month or do not get their salaries ever. Ruzzia needs to dump 30.000 recruits to the meatgrinder just to keep things as they are. Ruzzia is paying to wage a war that is profoundly anti-economic. A massive waste of money and humans.
Re morale, etc... nothing to add, I already said that people who fight do so for a reason and they are there. I know Putin believed their intelligence officers and thought that the government in Ukraine was just for show and people did not care (as they no longer care in Ruzzia). At this point, even you should have figured out that it is not.
BTW the F16 are allowed to shoot at whatever looks like a Ruzzia plane getting too close to Ukraine, wherever they are.
On your cookies reference, same question, same answer: cookies do not hold an army in the front (again, waiting for proof of anything you have said about whoever you think did whatever you think he/she did).
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So you're admitting to making a negative claim against Russia without mentioning that Ukraine is in far far worse position on that exact stat?
What are the people that get kidnapped in those military buses, or those that get caught trying to escape from Ukraine and then get sent to the frontlines are fighting for? What's more preferential for a country, forcing unwilling civilians to front lines, or financially incentivizing soldiers to sign up?
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I cannot answer for what I do not say. Your interpretation is yours to justify and your claims yours to prove ... The exodus from Ukraine AND Ruzzia (as usual you only tell one side of the story, so let me help you with that) is know since the beginning of the war... years old news. The article says hundreds of thousands... it is actually closer to 2.5 million.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65790759
4 June 2023
When President Putin announced a military mobilisation last September, thousands of Russians rushed to the border. Hundreds of thousands of Russians are estimated to have left their country since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. We look at who they are, where they are going, and why they are leaving.
Svetlana is in her early 30s and originally from a small town. She moved to Moscow at 18 to study physics at university. After graduation she worked as a product manager for various companies.
"I never thought I'd have to leave, I planned to retire in Moscow," she says, "I love Russia and I enjoyed my life."
Russians had been leaving even before the Ukraine war, including those who disagreed with Moscow's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and with new laws that made it easier to punish dissent. Many settled in the Baltic states and other EU countries, as well as in Georgia.
For Svetlana, the full-scale invasion of Ukraine of 2022 was a turning point.
"When the war started, I realised that it would not be over soon and also that people would not come out to protest. I felt both emotionally and rationally it made sense to leave," she says. She is now in Belgrade, Serbia's capital. "I wanted to put as great a distance between myself and the authorities as possible."
Many Russians shared her feelings and what had been a trickle turned into a stream.
As said, if there were no support for mobilisation and an army that believes in what they are doing, by now Ukraine would not exist. It is Putin's and the FSB mistake to think that it was not going to happen. As said, if there were popular support for the war in Ruzzia, volunteers would be flocking for any pay. This is Putin's war in Ruzzia, but it is clearly Ukraine's war in Ukraine. If some individuals break the law, they will be detained like anywhere else.
For example, in Ruzzia is illegal to hold a white paper or to not hold anything, so if you hold a white paper you are detained. If you protest against the war... you get sent to the front.
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-protest-arrests/25324619.html
Speaking of which, it seems that Ukraine has invaded Ruzzia. I guess they are trying to create a buffer zone to make sure Putin does not invade again by "surprise". I know this sounds like a joke, but it is not. Even Ruzzian sources are confirming Ukraine's advance in Kurst Oblast with at least one locality encircled now.
RE f16... yes... do not worry, they are not allowed to shoot, just as ATACAMS could not be used inside Ruzzia (wink wink).