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Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the conscription of 160,000 into military service.

The decree, which was reported by news agency Interfax and also published on the government website for legal announcements, says conscription applies to all citizens aged between 18 and 30 and covers the period from April to July.

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[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 98 points 2 days ago (4 children)

160k Russian troops attacking Ukraine = guaranteed death

160k Russian troops attacking the Kremlin = guaranteed win

They should consider their options

[–] bigFab@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sure. Wagner failed on that, but new recruits would do much better!

[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wagner had less than 20k

...and they may as well have been recruits

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 0 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

And he chose to stop. He was pretty much at red square already.

[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

He didn't choose, Putin made a deal with him and killed him 2 months later

[–] TomAwsm@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

He chose to accept the deal, tho

It wasn't the kind of deal he had a choice in

Prigozhin wasn't going to Moscow to overthrow Putin, just Shoigu and Gerasimov.

As soon as Putin made the call, the whole thing was over.

[–] exchange12rocks@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

They've been drafting this amount of conscripts twice a year for the last several decades: nothing unusual here, not related to the war - would've happened anyway

[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They don't want to attack kremlin, like they actually love p*tin.

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 32 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You can say Putin here. No double speak required.

[–] Vegetvs@feddit.org 0 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Really?! I always thought p*tin was French for b*tch.

[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't want to. You can say it three times instead.

[–] talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Will he appear like beetlejuice? Because I could go the The Hague and summon him.

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 3 points 1 day ago

Haha, imprison me all you want, my countrymen can summon me any time!

Any time now...

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 34 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

Important detail you might miss. Conscription is not mobilisation. This conscription is biggest in some time but not that much. Euronews and other media know this is clickbait.

Putin did this to sow fear in Europe - he knows media will do everything for the clicks. Politicians who base all of their decisions on polling (β€žcentrists”) will act accordingly. This is how we are played.

It’s the N^eoliberalism^ word being at fault for all of this again.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The headline is not clickbait. It's literally just reporting the news. The story beneath it is not sensationalist, it puts the number in context better than you did.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

People read headlines only, that’s a fact, just look around (like Lemmy in general). Simultaneously headlines fight for your attention because that’s the only chance to show you more ads. This is an incredibly toxic combination even if it looks okay on paper. People are kind of dumb but that’s more of a character flaw that we all share. We need to be a bit more aware of that because there’s no cure without a proper diagnosis.

you're right, but i still think the EU should arm itself at least to the point of being capable of self-defence.

it's not only about waging war, it's also about deterrence, and giving Europe some self-confidence.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Really? Because 160K doesn't seem like much at this point. I'd probably be wanting the world to not find out I need yet another chunk of guys and all I can do is 160K because all the others have completely failed and shit's getting low.

[–] Hubi@feddit.org 7 points 2 days ago

These 160K will not be sent to Ukraine. They are used for maintenance, logistics and such. They are doing this every year to replace the 160K conscripts that are done with their 12 months of military service.

[–] Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

This has nothing to do with the war in Ukraine. Russia has been drafting people for military service twice a year for decades. This is how countries with conscription systems work. Finland does the same thing.

[–] deeferg@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Doing this after the report came out yesterday that there has been talk of them testing a NATO country, that would absolutely match your claim of this being saber rattling. It's totally in his best interest to look especially tough right now, more so with Germany showing strong mobilization the past few weeks.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

He's missing about 320.000 soldiers for his summer offensive. Interesting.

[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Russia is missing 500 000 soldiers mobilized for this winter offensive.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

mobiks go missing every day bro

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

I don't think they kidnapped half a million ivans off the street lol

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

That makes sense

[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like Vlady is really taking the peace talks seriously. I'm sure he just need 160k peace keepers to help rebuild. He's a super reasonable guy.

[–] exchange12rocks@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

They draft this amount of conscripts twice a year for the last several decades - nothing unusual here and absolutely not related to the war.