• Russia is recruiting female convicts to boost its military forces, a Ukrainian intelligence spokesperson said.
  • Moscow wants to recruit the convicts to auxiliary and combat roles, the Kyiv Post reported.
  • More than 100,000 convicts from Russian penal colonies have reportedly been conscripted to fight in Ukraine.
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    7 months ago

    It would be naive to think that. Dugin, his ideologue, wrote a book on their long term geopolitical strategy, of which Brexit, and funding US racists was a part of.

    He made a massive miscalculation on the combat effectiveness of both the Russian and Ukrainian armies, which was a heavy blow to those goals, though. Let’s hope it was a big enough mistake.

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      7 months ago

      They may write fantasy books where they are some sort of mythical heroes all day long. That doesn’t mean any of this is applicable to reality.

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        Brexit happened, Trump was (and might be again) president, far right is growing in Europe. Outside of the battlefield, they are quite successful in their war against the West

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      The demographic consequences of Russia’s misadventures will continue to echo for decades. The Russian security state has given Russia multiple lobotomies over the last ~100 years and that’s more or less how they’re able to stay on top of things. The stability they export is only an asset insofar as they don’t have the same kind of domestic potential.