re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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So you'd rather spend a ton more with out own boots on the ground later due our existing treaties? Putin already said he wanted back all the way to Berlin.

I get it, you prefer spending trillions instead of billions

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all the way to Berlin?

This thread never disappoints

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MOSCOW, Sept 26 (Reuters) - A gunman with a swastika on his teeshirt killed 15 people, including 11 children, and wounded 24 at a school in Russia on Monday before committing suicide, investigators said.

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"Currently investigators...are conducting a search of his residence and studying the personality of the attacker, his views and surrounding milieu," the committee said in a statement. "Checks are being made into his adherence to neo-fascist views and Nazi ideology."

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Reuters

I hope this guy wasn't a plant.

I'm damn near allergic to conspiracy theories, but this situation seems odd.

More mobilization news

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/gunman-attacks-russian-military-recruiter-as-thousands-flee-mobilization/ar-AA12fFam

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A young man shot and wounded the chief recruitment officer at a military enlistment station in Russia’s Irkutsk region on Monday, local authorities said, as thousands of fighting-aged men continued to flee the country to escape being summoned to duty in President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.

The alleged shooter in the attack on the recruitment chief, at a military commissariat in Ust-Ilimsk, a small town in Irkutsk, apparently was distraught that his close friend had been called for duty despite having no prior military service.

Putin, announcing the partial mobilization, had said only experienced servicemen would be summoned. “We are talking about partial mobilization,” the president said in a national address. “In other words, only military reservists, primarily those who served in the armed forces and have specific military occupational specialties and corresponding experience, will be called up.”

But there have been a torrent of reports all across Russia, including from ardent supporters of the war, of people being summoned for duty despite having no prior military service, or being too old or otherwise physically incapable of going to war. Those reports, along with the government’s acknowledgment that thousands of fighting-age men had fled the country to avoid conscription, suggest that the chaotic mobilization is becoming the latest debacle in Putin’s war.

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Video of shooting here:

Twitter

There are lots of fire bombings of recruiting stations, huge lines at border crossings (particularly the one into Georgia) and small-sized protests popping up on Twitter.

Now that Drobysheve is firmly in Ukrainian control, I'm reading reports of fighting in the streets of Lyman.

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This is a plus for Putin. No doubt the ones he sends out there to get killed will be from the various groups of people most likely to oppose his rule.

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Russia needs the taxpayers though. It's population decline is in crisis mode

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I hope this guy wasn't a plant

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Well he was a local who went to school there and who was known to the local psychological treatment people. But as a Nazi sympathizer he fits in well with much of Russia.

Supposedly left this note: “ What happened is not a terrorist attack.
As the only reason for what happened, I ask you to cite hatred. I am not a member of any extremist organisations, I have no political demands.”