I think they are trying to counter that by pushing the 'recruitment ' way out East, as far from Moscow as possible.Dark Cloud wrote: ↑Fri Sep 23, 2022 11:09 amThat quote sums so much up perfectly here. Surely the Russians know full well that nobody outside Russian believes a word of the constant garbage coming out of their mouths and yet they cannot help but keep spouting it. Even this joke referendum stuff is clearly something they know full well nobody in their right mind will believe is fair or in any way "real", but they're going to do it anyway. Because they simply can't help themselves.
Another observation which someone alluded to above in passing is that sending 300,000 extra troops to the front is actually another 300,000 witnesses to exactly what's really happening in Ukraine and how badly Russia is failing and that just makes it so much harder for the Putin crowd to keep hoodwinking their general populace (hopefully!)
How Putin has the gall to accuse anyone of being a Nazi, when he is the nearest thing we've had to Hitler since WWII.