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.
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 („centrists”) will act accordingly. This is how we are played.
It’s the Neoliberalism word being at fault for all of this again.
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.
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.
In 2011 the draft was for 218000: http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/32869/
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
He’s missing about 320.000 soldiers for his summer offensive. Interesting.
Russia is missing 500 000 soldiers mobilized for this winter offensive.
What do you mean?
mobiks go missing every day bro
I don’t think they kidnapped half a million ivans off the street lol
That makes sense