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A roadside fireworks stand in Soledad, California, 28 June 2023. Photo by the Russian Reader When issuing diplomas, colleges in Ingushetia now require graduates to sign a summons to the army or refuse to accept the conscription notice and face possible administrative and criminal charges, Fortanga was told by a source close to one college. “To get a diploma, you need to sign a conscription…

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No matter how awful you think the Russian Army is, the reality is far worse.

Below, the two-part vid in this tweet by @wartranslated features a Russian commander who will probably never be asked to portray Shakespeare’s King Henry V. 

Mobik regiment commander greets his soldiers. Says he doesn't know their mission, equipment. Says he was pulled from vacation to serve. Admits he has health issues, but most problems are not enough to be demobilised.

And the following vid is further confirmation that once Russian soldiers realized they were at risk of being overrun by Ukrainian forces during the counteroffensive, they quickly got out of their uniforms.

Putin is threatening us with nukes and damaging its own gas pipelines because he knows that his military is pathetic and has no chance of winning in Ukraine. He is basically throwing a temper tantrum. He turns 70 on October 7th – isn’t he getting too old to behave like a toddler?

His mobilization is simply an attempt to find more cannon fodder. UK military intelligence estimates that the number of Russians who have recently fled the country clearly exceeds the size of the initial invasion force (roughly 190,000).

The number of recent refugees from Russia plus those who left in the early months of the war is now somewhere between 300,000 and 350,000. This is a massive brain drain of mostly younger, tech-savvy individuals which will take Russia at least a decade to replace.

Sometime, perhaps this winter, when the war is over, and Russia doesn't annex Ukraine - as the whole point is that they don't want a border with NATO, and would prefer buffer states - it's going to be presented in the west as a victory for Ukraine. Something like: 'Russia was going to annex Ukraine, but we fought them off,' even as the L/DPR remain independent and with limited international recognition.

And, I mean, god, we're in for it, aren't we? In a decade or two, when the breakdown of imperialism has escalated from these proxy conflicts into global war, we'll be awash with coverage on how every single setback was actually a victory. It won't be an opinion, it'll be unquestionable, the basic framing - one that every liberal you know won't have to consciously consider. Consider this: Ukraine completely defeated Russia's troops in the Donbass. Then, they dealt decisive blows against them near Odessa. They obliterated column after column of Russian tanks advancing on Kiev. Finally, the heroic troops in Kiev bravely held them off. Victory after victory, even as the front line is pushed backwards!

Every supposed liberal principle was cast aside the second blood was drawn - misinformation was openly declared permissible, if in service of the war effort; blocking refugees from escaping, supported if it meant more conscripts; war crimes, none specifically - just any war crimes, defended as a tactic. The fascist paramilitaries, previously rallied against as an issue by every liberal outlet, denied, then downplayed, and finally, simply, accepted as a necessary evil.

There's nothing, really, to say, here. I think everyone can see where history is leading us. It's a farce. The world powers tried to put their masks back on, after the horrors of the last century, but the bloodstains on them are as clear as day. For good or for bad, we will see the end of it all. In socialism, or in extinction.

thanks to dickheaded leftist takes there is now a concerted effort to conflate ukrainian refugees in europe to the mass exodus of young men (tho many people of all genders are fleeing) from russia to avoid the conscription process. somehow because there are millions of refugees from ukraine, it proves that ukraine as a whole don’t want to fight. that they are being somehow forced into it by the ‘zelenskyy regime’ and nato and the west (and a bunch blaming the jews)

firstly the people fleeing are the elderly, the disabled and young parents. people who can’t fight due to their own physical condition or they are depended upon by small children. there is still a concerted strategic bombing campaign against civilian targets from the russian forces putting them at risk and they decided its best for them to leave the country temporarily. most want to return. many are returning despite the risk. they support the army and the fight and decided the best thing they could do is get out of the way.

the young people fleeing russia are the ones who very clearly disagree with the kremlin actions. they are largely fighting age men who have decided the war is unjust and they refuse to do harm to ukraine. many are organising aginst the kremlin from where they are. many are donating to ukraine. many are countering russian disinformation. there is mass mobilisation in ukraine but even with the fear and the danger, morale and vision of purpose remains high. they want to fight. they want to protect their people.

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How do you know Russia is losing? Excellent Ukrainian operational security has mostly blacked out news for the front.

> (From Randy Mott @randymot4 , Twitter) <

1. Russians are asking for a ceasefire. Russia desperately wants to freeze the battlefield;

2. They are sending less trained soldiers into battle in large numbers;

3. Most conscripts sent in now are equipped with ancient Russian helmets and very old weapons and nothing else. They often seem to have been drafted only weeks before their capture (no training).

4. Russians, boasting of making hundreds of T90M tanks, seem only able to send anvient T54s into UKR now. Every day the Ukrainian military grows more modern than the Russians;

5. Russia has stripped its other borders of military personnel and equipment;

6. The refugee flow to Poland, where I live, is almost nothing now. I drive right by their embassy every week, where there were big lines in the early months of the war. Many Ukrainians actually going home now.

7. Russian military bloggers are not making the rosy reports like the Kremlin post. They also totally contradict the Russian trolls on Twitter.

8. The Russian economy is tanking.

9. We do not see many new videos or photos on Twitter from pro-Russian sources depicting great tactical victories. The isolated instances have been re-posted hundreds of times.

10. Dozens of Russian units and their families back home are posting videos asking for help due to their lack of support on the front and the "suicide" missions that gthey are asked to perform.

None of these indicators reflect any chance that Russia is winning or that the war is even a "stalematge" right now. Confirmation will be forthcoming as major Ukrainians victories are very close now.

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Caption: Have another bottle of vodka and it will go away.

Just a warning now, something I've seen coming for a while now, don't be surprised if some time this winter or spring we see a complete collapse, Afghanistan style, of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

The writing has been on the wall for a while now, pretty much ever since the UAF didn't make a major puncture, or any puncture for that matter, through any of the main Russian lines of defense in the first few days of the Offensive anywhere on the frontlines where they attacked.

It doesn't matter that they seem poised to secure with infantry a small section of trenches Northwest of Verbove, East of Robotyne that does in fact bypass the first line of defense because Ukraine no longer has the offensive potential to exploit it.

And now with Poland ending weapons shipments to Ukraine, the US clearly looking for a way out, and Russian Forces looking poised to launch a missile offensive, pretty much ending any ideas Zelensky may have had at compensating for the loss of Polish supplies with domestic production.

What domestic production? The Russians have grinded out of existence Ukraine's domestic productive capacity.

Long story short, they don't have the productive capacity, the manpower, the munitions, the ammunition, or the logistics to continue this fight alone.

Yet, the Ukrainian leadership went so far as having a law passed that preemptively prevents Zelensky from negotiating with the Russians as long as Putin is the President and as long as they have their Forces occupying any Ukrainian territory based on their 1991 borders.

So you have a regime that cannot continue the fight alone, cannot negotiate, and has now lost over 300'000 men, with many times more severely wounded, millions of refugees have fled the country, their infrastructure and production is decimated, and its allies are backing out.

So again, I'm going to say it now.

Don't be surprised if we see a complete, Afghanistan-style collapse of the Ukrainian Armed Forces sometime this winter or spring or whenever.

I'm not trying to say I know exactly what's going to happen, no one does and anyone who says they do about any war, is thoroughly full of shit.

What I am saying, is don't be surprised if it happens.

All the conditions are there. For some, though not all, of the same reasons.

There are some differences, Ukraine had a much stronger military it started this war with, but the inevitable crush of Russian Forces grinding forward, learning from their mistakes, honing their skills, all the while Ukraine was spending its best forces on losing battles.

The saying, "pick your battles" doesn't exist for no reason.

Ukraine chose poorly, by defending every inch of land, spending endless lives, weapons systems, and ammunition on battles they knew they couldn't win, like Bakhmut, and the Kharkiv and Kherson Offensives. Both of which were a pointless waste of lives spent on taking tiny farm villages instead of building the kind of Defenses the Russians did in Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk.

Had Ukraine's leadership chosen to defend land they knew they could, instead wasting Military capabilities and lives on a pointless and exceedingly costly offensive, they wouldn't be in this position today.

And then they did it again! And this time never even broke through a single main line of defense in nearly 4 months, at the cost of more than 70'000 Ukrainian lives.

The insanity of these policies speak for themselves. They don't even make any sense from a strategic, or even tactical point of view. It's just plain stupidity. Any idiot can make these observations.

I haven't even mentioned the simple fact that Russia is, and always was going to be a MUCH MUCH bigger country, with a much much greater productive capacity, and a population pool many many times greater to draw its conscripts from.

And now the Ukrainians are likely going to face collapse. All because they chose to listen to whispers of those who would make them heroes in the eyes of the Western media, at the cost of the country they claim to represent and love.

Love, even as they run 24/7 war propaganda on tv with no other stations allowed, they refuse to hold elections next year, and are in fact extorting the US for billions more dollars before Zelensky will hold any kind of elections, they raid churches, arrest priests, journalists and political dissenters, the ones they don't assassinate and then brag about.

And to add to all this, Zelensky will never ever ever ever again get the kind of weapons or men to launch an offensive of the kind he just fought.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces Offensive capabilities are essentially no more. Gone. Completely and utterly decimated. Tens of thousands of men, gone. All for roughly about 8-12km of gains, depending on where you're measuring.

They've also lost about an equal amount of territory in the Kupiansk direction, so there REALLY was no point in these 70'000 deaths.

Think about that.

This has to stop, but I'm afraid it may be way too late for Ukraine to come to its senses in time. And I don't think the Russians feel like talking anymore.

That's why I expect a collapse.

The True Union of Humanity

A learned truth for me is: They are all shit, whether it's a senile US President Biden, a disappointing billionaire Trump, a superfluous King Charles, a crazed Tsar Putin, a lying actor Zelenskyy, a traitorous Chancellor Scholz, a hypocritical arms salesman Macron, a neo-fascist cunt Meloni, an elite bankster Draghi or whoever; this list can be continued for a very long time with every head of state on this planet.

What they all have in common, however, is their duplicity, for they move people back and forth like chess pieces until subordinates get finally sacrificed as expendable pawns. Whether left, right, liberal, totalitarian, capitalist, communist; the exploitation of people is always being promoted. No system ever existed was perfect, and certainly not worth defended with your life. The bitter sobriety is that every fallen soldier died senseless, whether GIs, Wehrmacht soldiers or from the Red Army, in the end they all rotted away in the mass trenches of Europe.

Even today, there are tens of thousands of volunteer Western citizens fighting on the Eastern Front against Russia, just as there are tens of thousands of Russian volunteers fighting on their Western Front. I don't understand how anyone can be so brainwashed as to seriously want this by his own will. They really must believe the lies of their systems with deep conviction, which speaks for very small minds. Do they really think we will erect monuments to them?

The fact that the most liberal and cosmopolitan, even the conscientious objectors among them, are the most ardent for the war in the East increases my contempt for them immeasurably. Of good Christians who, on the one hand, preach unconditional love for refugees from across the Mediterranean, on the other describe weapons shipments as an "act of charity", I expect nothing less; but that those Kumbaya-singing sheep of all people advocate so thoughtlessly the war against Russia still amazes me.

None of them have yet learned that by participating in the orgy of violence they are continuing the spiral to the point of total self-destruction. Every gun, every missile, every tank only leads to more destruction and death. But they believe their supposedly liberal rainbow world is something better than Russian totalitarianism, worth watching hundreds of thousands kill each other while cheering on their team freedom in solidarity orgies from afar without even getting a scratch themselves. If their own much-vaunted values justify this bloodshed, are their values really that much better? At least since the Corona measures, we all know that in every queer do-gooder citizen there is a large portion of hysterical Nazi who, just as unquestioningly as citizens of totalitarian systems, loves to force others to do some bullshit because the authorities gave them permission to do so, moralized as "right".

Or in other words, if they themselves were drafted into military service like the citizens of the direct warring parties, would they still be willing to die for their own values?! Their hypocrisy even goes so far that they ignore the forced conscription of others to military service on both sides, but in their own "free" countries they go totally nuts at the smallest form of apparent "discrimination", lived out in ridiculous #metoo initiatives. It is therefore not surprising that they oppose gun violence in their own country but have no moral qualms about exporting weapons to war zones, which further escalate rather than resolve the conflict peacefully.

Nothing other than double standards and mutual incomprehension is what has always united humanity. The common denominator is the belief in being better than the others, without realizing that their behavior is not very different from one another.

Go to Kazakhstan!

A bird’s eye view of Astana (aka Nursultan), the capital of Kazakhstan. Photo courtesy of Travel Triangle Observing the discussions about visas [for Russians wishing to escape to the EU], I want to note how detached they are, in a way, from real life. It sometimes seems to me that this discussion is more about how Russians imagine “the West” than it is about helping actual people. For many…

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Going under a cut bc it's just navel-gazing to think things through for myself, not meant to Say anything or make a meaningful Statement about anything beyond the space of my own head

Am still in migraine postdrome so not the most articulate but tl;dr is. Hm. Thinking about imagined communities a lot, affective response to tragedy, solidarity in practice for those with whom you have common cause and share political struggle but would not otherwise break bread or to whom you would not give the time of day under other circumstances. Empathy as barometer of political proximity in Anglophone discursive space since the 2010s. Have one degree of social separation from a trans man killed in Colorado and a volunteer killed in Kyiv this week. Both were, strangely, childhood friends of longtime online friendly acquaintances. I feel very detached, as though floating in frigid water under a thick layer of ice, translucent but not, the way frosted glass is made to look breathed-on for selective opacity, the illusion of privacy, interiors suggested only by silhouette, all light and shadow, muted. In Polish it's called "matte mirror finish," Wierzyński used the phrase to describe the mirror between worlds clouding over when Stefania died, passing through the glass in pursuit of a distant obraz. Friend and I have talked about this, how we don't feel connected to communities in the abstract, both and neither. And almost resentment that you are expected, in draught, to tap a parched well of grief for people you didn't know just because the fascists are coming for you too, just because you had this thing in common, this target sutured onto your forehead. You can be in solidarity without grief, I have to hope. I have been thinking of these two men together a lot, though, the way their deaths are discussed, the way they are memorialized as representative of campaigns to kill the groups for which they became posthumous metonyms. One killed on TDoV, remembered as brave & smart & proud, photo circulating that shows top surgery scars; other remembered as someone who "was going to be the Ukrainian Remarque," eligible for Russian and Ukrainian citizenship but chose Ukrainian, though still wrote in Russian, and above all loved his home city; this is not leading to anything coherent I just. Man I'm sad. And always am getting news updates from multiple places in multiple languages, and all I can do is try to think about language and social relations, try to make sense of it. I am more afraid of those close to me dying than my own death, and was broken up about the murder of that trans woman from Vermont who was friends with my high school friends. But there are so many shootings. The war is still ongoing, I'm getting constant urgent translation requests for refugees, so many people I know are now refugees, my city's Russian-language fb group is getting desperate requests from conscripts for green card marriages, the Ukr & Polish fb groups are heartbreaking, I just. It feels inevitable that something will happen here, also have one degree of separation from people in the Tree of Life congregation & people at the 4th parade in the suburbs, but I can't. Do this public mourning, I don't feel it, I'm numb to it. How do we organize community defense that is NOT cops. Everyone says queers arm yourselves well what about buy queers bulletproof vests, a gun won't stop an AR-15 unless you disarm or disable the shooter before they open fire. I just. I feel like ice and also like I am under ice. I'm not directly affected but it's always a friend of a friend or their partner or family member, and it's circling closer but never quite here. I'm angry I think, and very numb, and cold.

Hmmmm....reading the news and I cannot help but be left with a sour note in my mouth.

I live very close by the Russian border, and therefore it’s easy to go hiking and stop to stare at the border and have a little philosophical moment with the peeling paint dot on a tree that marks the *do not cross, please pinky promise* part of our forbidden border-zone. But I disgress. The conflicted thought I had with the peeling paint and rusty chicken-wire border wall, was that I’m not sure that closing the border for Russians during this mobilization is exactly moral.

It feels ironically cynical that we have kept our borders open all the way until the mobilisation hit and the uptick in refugees also hit us. The first illegal border-crossers have been caught, and the newspaper article describes the border-officers “working without problems with their russian counterparts to prevent illegal crossings.” But. Is that...something we want to do? Work closely together with russian soldiers to prevent conscription defiers from fleeing? Because surely every conscript refugee turned from the border is going to end up in a black van and dumbed in the Ukrainian war, which is just more pain and suffering to the Ukrainians. No matter how we feel about russians, from the numbers game point of view, every soldier leeched from Purtin’s army is a good thing, right?

I don’t know. I don’t necessarily feel good about our decision to close the borders and close every gap in border security to catch people illegally hiking into Finland at time like this. :/

Authorities in the Russian city of Lipetsk have begun conscripting refugees from Mariupol, according to the independent Russian outlet Verstka.

Ukrainian refugees currently living in Lipetsk told journalists that draft orders were served to men from Mariupol who were working at the Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant. According to the refugees Verstka spoke to, the men had previously been granted Russian citizenship through a simplified procedure. The regional military commissariat reportedly didn’t ask the men whether they served in the Ukrainian army.

One woman from Mariupol told Verstka that a 25-year-old refugee who she met at a temporary accommodation center was recently sent to the front after receiving a Russian passport. “Sending people to war who have just escaped war is awful,” she told the outlet. “My husband and I don’t want to receive Russian citizenship on principle. We’re still hoping to leave. But after the referendum, Mariupol has supposedly joined Russia. Does that mean we’re automatically Russian citizens, and our men are also liable to be mobilized?” she said.

A representative of the Lipetsk regional military commissariat refused to answer Verstka’s questions over the phone, claiming questions could only be answered in person. The Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant’s press service told journalists that no refugees had been served draft orders.

I don't know how to write this and I don't know how to back whatever I say up with official news outlets but my cousins and cousins' husbands in Russia are being conscripted into the war against the ukraine. as part of an oppressed indigenous minority with history of ethnic cleancing, genocide and displacement, there's a lot of talk circulating among our ethnic group and our neighbouring ones that it's these minority groups that will be sent to the frontlines of the war now with forced conscription whereas slavic soldiers (including those who signed up earlier before the conscription mandate) will be sent to locations that arent in active warzones or are given positions in the army that keeps them from the field. and like, I'm not going to dispel the fear of an ethnic minority community or their neighbours, so I will act as if this is a justified fear of theirs. by how putin has talked about us and our religion and denied our history into the last decade (did mainstream media even talk abiut the 2014 winter olympics taking place over my people's mass graves?), I certainly think the fear is justified. but anyways it certainly makes neighbouring European countries putting a blanket ban on accepting "Russian men" as refugees kind of. hm. soul crushing. these cousins fled the syrian civil war where our family had taken refugee for over a century at the hands of genocide of the Russian empire and they fled back to our ancestral lands as their adopted lands became the warzone of the syrian government and the rebels and isis and Israel in hopes that they'd find peace and now they're being called in to a war our people hold zero support of and they fear being sacrificed so slavic men might have a better chance of survival and no neighbouring country will take them, further south because their syrian refugee status and further west because they're considered russian. and I'm just like, pulling my hair out sort of panicing about when our family get to stop experiencing war. when will we be liberated from this existence as fodder in wars we never start and then have our suffering denied again and again and again

Devil-may-care Update

Prior to March, I nearly started writing the last chapter. I reread the entire thing, I even started fantasizing about the two scenes I most wanted to write. It was finally going to happen.

But then the war in Ukraine resumed. Resumed, yes, because I started writing during the war in Donbas (Luhansk and Donetsk). Someone I really liked lived in Donetsk and became a refugee at that time; she and her mother had to flee into Tatarstan.

So Devil-may-care… If you’ve read Devil-may-care you know Az identifies as Russian, but he is ethnic Kazakh and ethnic Ukrainian. His family is Muslim. He was a conscript in Afghanistan and he went on to become special forces. I recently discovered one of the special forces unit I had researched for him was active in Bucha last month. I was horrified and devastated. I remain horrified and devastated. I don’t want to glorify people that literally torture people.

Which brings me here. Even though I wrote Az as disillusioned and somewhat disgusted with his time in the military, even though I have really enjoyed exploring Russia’s vast ethnic make up, I don’t how to continue writing this. I don’t know if it’s right to continue.

So I propose to at least tell anyone that’s still invested how the last chapter with Az and Janos was supposed to go. I’m so frustrated, because I want so much to at least write those last two scenes. (One of which is the final sexytimes scene. The other is the scene that drove me to continue even when readership evaporated.)

I’m open to suggestions, but right now I don’t know how to continue.

"Disaster." From Surah 4: An Nisa, "The Women."

4:59 -63

O you who have believed, obey Allah and obey the Messenger and those in authority among you. And if you disagree over anything, refer it to Allah and the Messenger, if you should believe in Allah and the Last Day. That is the best [way] and best in result.

Have you not seen those who claim to have believed in what was revealed to you, [O Muhammad], and what was revealed before you? They wish to refer legislation to Taghut, while they were commanded to reject it; and Satan wishes to lead them far astray.

And when it is said to them, "Come to what Allah has revealed and to the Messenger," you see the hypocrites turning away from you in aversion.

So how [will it be] when disaster strikes them because of what their hands have put forth and then they come to you swearing by Allah, "We intended nothing but good conduct and accommodation."

Those are the ones of whom Allah knows what is in their hearts, so turn away from them but admonish them and speak to them a far-reaching word.

Commentary:

When we allow intereferences in the judgement of the judges, taghut, "a purposeful sin" results. From this comes "disaster" disguised in "good conduct and accomodations."

Vladimir Putin lied to his people and said they were under attack from Ukraine and the forces of goodness and light were needed to protect the country. He conscripted millions of young men, kidnapping them right off the street, clothed them in rags and given them inferior equipment to fight the people of Ukraine in wave after wave of an unwinnable war in bitter cold.

The US Congress and its President, however, are all gummed up over a military aid package while pedophiles and thieves in its ranks squabble over petty squeamish things, while the Russians steamroll themelves to victory.

All of this we are told is being done for us. Like our mom telling us to take our vitamins in the morning before we head off to school, handing us a nice lunch she packed, telling us as we leave to be sure to get hard and study.

They wish to refer legislation to Taghut, while they were commanded to reject it; and Satan wishes to lead them far astray.

All Muslims and persons who are fans of religion need to stand against President Biden and the Republicans for their carelessness and callousness towards the wars and suffering taking place on this world. The Russians need to be made to leave Ukraine. The world is cracking apart because of their presence there and then new leadership needs to discuss cleanup and prevention so no more disasters strike.

The Quran says we help people on the first day of their distress, not on their last. The Final Hour belongs to Allah not to the Tribunal. Relief efforts targeting Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan, Gaza, Rwanda, any place the refugee cries out to God for help. The instinct we are ignoring, the one that says go to their sides is the Spirit of God urging us to turn our faiths into works, the opposite of what is called taghut.