Laas Leivat: What drives Russian men to run from the draft? Fear of the enemy or fear of one’s own?
As of this writing over 100,000 draft-age men had arrived in Kazakhstan since September 21, the day that Putin announced a partial mobilization of Russia’s 2 million military reserves.
Putin explained that an increase in manpower was necessary “to defend the motherland”, “its sovereignty and territorial integrity”. In the Kremlin’s mind and as amplified in Russian propaganda it’s the defence of the just recently annexed Ukrainian regions that needed heightened capability. The leadership has not explained the mobilization as necessary to reverse its continued battleground failures, which they have denied.
Other countries have experienced sizable arrivals of designated classes of men for military duty. Georgia is now witnessing some 10,000 daily and Armenia has admitted over 40,000 escaping the draft.
In spite of the Kremlin’s insistence that the new draftees will not be deployed outside of Russian borders, that they will be fairly paid and that their jobs will until they return, the sheer numbers are embarrassingly high.
The Russian military itself has betrayed its own claim of draftees staying within Russia. It’s admitted that the specialities designated for reservists to fill are exactly those it identified as needed on the front lines – tankers, gunners, drivers, etc.
(Pikemalt saab lugeda Eesti Elu 14. oktoobri 2022 paber- ja digilehest)
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The Truth20 Oct 2022 11:19
People are waking up to the fact that the bankers fund both sides of every war. That wars are extremely profitable. They don't want to be sent into meat grinders just to make some parasites even richer.
Who even cares about this? Why even ask? Do you ask if Canadian men should be drafted?
Those 'opinion leaders' who talk about drafts and who is the 'real man' who goes to war should be sending all their children to the front lines. Walk the talk or you look like a fraud.
Putin's Russia18 Oct 2022 21:41
Putin would have more success in drafting new recruits, if he put an end to the custom of "dedovschina", where draftees are subjected to appalling brutality, often resulting in suicides and murder.
Time spent in a Western maximum security prison (gladiator school) is preferable to the Russian Army.
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