@AndyL2880I've got plenty of Russian friends and acquaintances...

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    @AndyL2880

    I've got plenty of Russian friends and acquaintances in different Russian regions. From different "political" backgrounds. Including rabid anti-Putinists.
    And even according to rabid anti-Putinists, nobody is getting force-recruited in Russia.
    Your statement is unsubstantiated. It's a fake narrative.

    There's a decent stream of volunteers. There's around 300k conscripts per year, some of which end up signing contracts. There's mercenaries.ZERO need for the Russian government to grab or trick anyone.

    Which is why your "foreigners tricked into a Russian PMC" narrative is also false. CIA/CIPsO generated. Although these are one and the same really,

    Much easier to grab your own people off the streets, rather than stir things up internationally and "trick" or "grab" people from other countries. Logic. Use it.


    On the other hand, Ukrainian "force mobilization" campaign is all over Ukrainian media. All the cases of beatings. Cases where ordinary citizens stepped in to help the victims of forceful mobilisation tactics of Ukrainian recruiters. A whole bunch of cases where the "forcefully-mobilized" died. A couple of cases where the Ukrainian recruiters used firearms to intimidate people.

    Of course you need to be able to use Google Translate for that, but you're a big girl. You'll figure it out.




 
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