New Russian campaign tries to entice men to fight in Ukraine

[groundloop]

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Source: ABC News

Advertisements promise cash bonuses and enticing benefits. Recruiters are making cold calls to eligible men. Enlistment offices are working with universities and social service agencies to lure students and the unemployed.

A new campaign is underway this spring across Russia, seeking recruits to replenish its troops for the war in Ukraine.

As fighting grinds on in Ukrainian battlegrounds like Bakhmut and both sides prepare for counteroffensives that could cost even more lives, the Kremlin's war machine badly needs new recruits.

A mobilization in September of 300,000 reservists — billed as a “partial” call-up — sent panic throughout the country, since most men under 65 are formally part of the reserve. Tens of thousands fled Russia rather than report to recruiting stations.


Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/new-russian-campaign-entice-men-fight-ukraine-98132927

[Roy Rolling]

1. Too late

Ukraine thought of it first.

[EX500rider]

2. "Always wanted to drive the same tank your grandfather did in 1948?...

....Now you can!"

[oldsoftie]

12. Absolutely PERFECT!!!!

[yaesu]

3. Included in the enticement package is a 50 percent off coupon for funeral services

or not

[Shermann]

4. Who needs cash bonuses when you have conscription?

Apparently, any men under the age of 65 are fair game.

[Traildogbob]

5. Is it being aired on Fox and friends?

Friends being traitorous, illiterate, MAGA, proPooti, Tuckums fan boys.
Tuckums will lead em into battle, like trump did J6, with a Stallone body, assault rifle and strapped with ammo belts across his powerful chest. USA USA USA.
With a bow tie and that idiotic laugh as a charging battle cry.

[erronis]

32. I'll bet the fox-watching magats will not want to volunteer to serve in the trump-putin army

But then, neither would trump, putin, carlson, murdoch, thiel, koch, (r)epuglicons, libertarians put themselves anywhere near the front lines. Much nicer to stay home and make idiot noises.

[mopinko]

6. anyone who doesnt realize we are helping to grind the russian military to a pulp

needs to stfu.
the last figure i heard was that we have expended 5% of our military hardware. hardware built to fight russia, for the most part.

they’ll be crippled for a generation, at least, by the time this is over.

[Botany]

7. Newsweek: Bakhmut Life Expectancy Near Four Hours On Frontlines, Fighter Warns

"It's been pretty bad on the ground," he said. "A lot of casualties. The life expectancy is around four hours on the frontline."

https://www.newsweek.com/bakhmut-life-expectancy-near-four-hours-frontlines-ukraine-russia-1782496

[FredGarvin]

9. Newsweak Is Full Of Shit

Garbage "news"

The Russians are getting massacred in their attempts to take the town.

The 4 hours he is referring to are Russian conscripts, not Ukrainian defenders.

[Botany]

10. And that is what the article says

n/t

[oldsoftie]

13. And that article is a month old. Russia has failed to advance since then.

Even though we were told more than once that Bakhmut had fallen.

[Botany]

23. The Russians have been loosing something like 800 KIA a day .... that had somedays of 1,200 kia

this is not like WW II were the Soviets could mass together thousands of men and vehicles
and roll over the Germans in human waves because whenever they do that not the Ukrainians
have artillery that can drop rounds dead nuts onto them and the last time the Russians tried
to use their tanks all but 2 of them were taken out .... mostly by javelins.

Very shortly w/outside material support the Ukrainian forces and outside volunteers are going
to wipe the Russian ground troops out of Ukraine and that most likely includes Crimea too.
Look to see the U.A. forces to push the 60 miles south and take Mariupol back which will split
the Russian forces. (my guess)

[oldsoftie]

27. I'm really hoping for Mariupol too. I wouldnt rush Crimea though.

[Botany]

33. They (Ukrainian forces) need to secure the dam on the Dnipro River to stop the Russians from ...

... draining the water out of the reservoir up stream from Kherson.

Hopefully some members or family members or just plain Russians take Vlad out of the
equation ASAP.

[PortTack]

8. They tried this late last summer with billboards promising cash..it didn't work then either

[tornado34jh]

11. Someone said that much of, if not most of Russia's population is apathetic or disinterested

In a country where there really is little chance they will be anywhere near what the oligarchs have, much less move up the financial ladder, I can see why there is no incentive in fighting this war. Russia's scientists, engineers, teachers, etc. are trying to emigrate from Russia. Russia isn't improving itself. But again, when all you have heard or seen through most of your life is propaganda from the Kremlin, I think it is telling. I don't remember which video it is, but this guy on Youtube, Vlad Vexler, goes into pretty good detail as to what the mindset is over there.

[oldsoftie]

15. Still a communist country in almost every way except "officially".

And boy there are folks here who will argue that point into the ground.

[tornado34jh]

18. Ironic

They have been touting traditional Christian family values and illiberalism and all that. Most Russians follow the Russian Orthodox Church. It is also ironic that they would call the West godless if they truly were communist.

[oldsoftie]

26. They're playing directly to the Trump base. To divide the US.

Look at what they talk about; godless, woke, trans, emasculating men, etc. They're aiming directly for that audience.

[tornado34jh]

34. Not just Trump

Orban, Bolsonaro, those types of autocrats. If I had a dollar for every time those idiots said those topics you mention over from 2008 up to now, I would probably eventually be on Forbes magazine in a few years since they talk about these topics so much, sarcasm intended.

[oldsoftie]

36. Good point; all cut from the same cloth. Putin is trying to "save" ALL of us.

[tornado34jh]

38. True

To be honest, it almost is like a religious cult. You have this person/group who thinks he is out there "to save" others.

[IronLionZion]

14. What is this, Stalin all over again?

They'll just throw people into the slaughterhouse until they run out of people?

[oldsoftie]

16. Yes. Old Soviet tactics since day one. Now with old Soviet weapons too!

Same as what China did, North Korea, etc.

[Warpy]

17. Oh, this is my favorite

Grandson goes off to get butchered in order that Grandpa can keep his shitty Lada.

Heart warming stuff, isn't it?

[IronLionZion]

19. That's disgusting

At least the American military ads will appeal to patriotism, money for college, future career opportunities, etc. not to save a shitty old car. Not sure Grandpa will get much money when the kid dies anyway.

[Warpy]

28. You think that's bad? This is their "Tje west will freeze and starve" ad

And people all over Russia bought it!

[oldsoftie]

35. Yeah, THAT sure didnt pan out like they thought, did it?

And this coming winter the EU will be even better prepared for NOT using Putins gas & oil.

[ananda]

20. I didn't think there were any left.

Wellwellwell

[blue-wave]

21. Is it possible

the majority of Russians have concluded the war Putin started with his invasion of Ukraine in 2014 is wrong? And there are too many body bags being sent home.

In other news, Russian towns experiencing blasts hundreds of miles from the Ukrainian border:

Blast in Russian town caused by Ukrainian drone, three hurt, TASS reports

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/blast-causes-crater-centre-russian-town-two-hurt-tass-2023-03-26/


Slava Ukraini!!! Heroyam Slava!!! Slava NaViki!!!

[keithbvadu2]

22. As Putin harms future Russian growth and economy.

Russia faces shrinking middle class, rising inequality, study finds

https://www.democraticunderground.com/113336735

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As many of the up-and-coming middle class escape from Russia.

Or get drafted with not-so-good chances of survival.

Leaving a shortage of the ordinary working class men.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017815477

How do Russians avoid the war and how is life in hiding or abroad? - DW News

[LiberalArkie]

24. I had read that High School and college students graduating could not get their diploma without

signing a contract at the recruitment offices.

[Playingmantis]

25. Russian town offers groceries for enlistment

The families of some Russian soldiers mobilized in Ukraine have been offered a care package by their city's mayor: a free bag of vegetables.

BBC journalist Francis Scarr posted a translated clip from Russian TV to Twitter on Monday. In the clip, Mayor Evgeny Grigoriev, an official in the Siberian city of Yakutsk, said the families of mobilized residents could proceed to collect a "one-off food package" this month.

Grigoriev said the package would contain fresh vegetables, including "cabbage, potato, carrot, beetroot, and onion."

https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-mayor-offers-families-military-conscripts-bag-vegetables-2022-10

[Marcuse]

29. Plus all the Stoli they can drink.

[IronLionZion]

30. Stolichnaya is ironically solidly on the side of NATO and anti-Putin

Putin threw them out of Russia

[Marcuse]

37. So the poor bastards don't even get the good stuff.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

31. Lotsa luck Pooty Poot

[Martin68]

39. Signing up to fight against Ukraine at this point is a death sentence. They'll be

thrown into the front lines without adequate food, weapons or armor. They'll be ordered to undertake a frontal assault on a well-fortified position to soften it up for Wagner troops.

[Omaha Steve]

40. After a review by forum hosts, locking........

Feature story, not LBN.