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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1382932)	12/9/2022 5:21:37 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	1 Recommendation Recommended By Wharf Rat Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570679

Broken Cuck, all your manpower questions will be answered here After the first three paragraphs, I tried to skim through that love letter. It was full of every myth that keeps you PooTin cucks and the Z-nationalists going, from "kYiV wAs a fEiNt" to "rUzZiA aChIeVeD mOsT oF iT's oBjEcTiVeS aLrEaDy." I've already debunked those myths myself, but I'm not the only one. Many other people have as well. In any case, there's no denying that PooTin has manpower issues. The "partial mobilization" was already on top of mobilizing most of the RuZZian separatists in Donbas, and on top of the Vagner thugs unashamedly recruiting from prisons. You don't raise a professional military that way. You just don't. All you're doing is recruiting cannon fodder. The only question now is how long before PooTin mobilizes another two million warm bodies for the meat grinder. Based on the rate of casualties right now, I'm guessing next April. Tenchusatsu

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1382932)	12/13/2022 2:44:39 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	1 Recommendation Recommended By pocotrader Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570679

Broken Quck, another example of why recruiting from prisons is a sign of desperation. bUt bUt pOoTiN sAyS wHaT hE mEaNs aNd tHeN dOeS iT ... (BTW, getting executed for showing fear on the battlefield isn't really news, but this story still shows that the Vagner thugs are dying at a very fast rate and are acting like a terrorist organization or drug cartel would.) Tenchusatsu ***** Russian Soldiers Executed for Showing Fear, Captured Recruit Says (msn.com) A captured Russian soldier has said he witnessed the execution of his fellow troops after they displayed fear on the battlefield in Ukraine. After his interview began to circulate on Ukrainian Telegram channels, independent Russian news outlet Nestka identified the individual as Vladislav Izmailov, a 26-year-old former convict from the city of Samara in Russia's southwest. Izmailov claimed to have been recruited by the notorious mercenary unit, the Wagner Group, on September 27, when its founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, visited his prison. He said he was offered offered a contract for six months in exchange for freedom and exemption from criminal punishment, and that some 300 people from his colony agreed to fight in Ukraine. Izmailov's grandmother and his girlfriend confirmed his identity, and said that he had been imprisoned several times, Nestka reported. Before revealing his experience on the front line, Izmailov said he wanted to give an interview because he "decided to tell the whole truth." He said "everything turned out to be different" when he and his fellow soldiers arrived in Ukraine after a two-week training course. "They said the death rate was low. But in fact, the mortality rate is very high. Few remain alive, and it will be difficult to make it through these six months alive, "said Izmailov. When pressed on the reports that Russian men are being executed if they attempt to abandon their positions on the front line, Izmailov said he witnessed the deaths of two soldiers in his unit after they displayed fear in battle. "In the first assault, I was the second group. The evacuation team was ahead of me. There were two people there who were just scared. Artillery worked. They were frightened - [their] first time in the war. And then these two were 'nullified' at the base," Izmailov said. "They were digging their own grave, they were simply shot and buried."** According to Idel.Realities, a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service, in April 2017, Izmailov was handed a prison sentence of one year and eight months for robbing a friend and stealing a car to sell its parts. The Wagner Group has been recruiting large numbers of prisoners for Putin's war in Ukraine. The mercenary unit has been recruiting in penal colonies in far-flung regions of Russia, according to Olga Romanova, head of the prisoner advocacy group Russia Behind Bars. Relatives of prisoners serving sentences in St. Petersburg told investigative media outlet Important Stories that the Wagner Group is offering 200,000 rubles ($3,164) and an amnesty for six months of "voluntary" service in the Donbas region—if the prisoners return alive. Yevgeny Nuzhin, a former Russian convict who was recruited in July by the Wagner Group and gave a string of interviews after he was captured by Ukrainian forces in September, was executed last month. Footage of his killing was published in November by the Wagner-linked Telegram channel Grey Zone. The clip showed an unidentified man hitting Nuzhin, 55, with a sledgehammer. Nuzhin had in his interviews criticized Russian officials and said he wanted to switch sides. Prigozhin said the footage was "excellent directorial work that's watchable in one sitting," while Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said "it was not our business." Newsweek has contacted Russia's foreign ministry for comment.

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1382932)	12/13/2022 3:43:24 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	2 Recommendations Recommended By pocotrader Wharf Rat Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570679

Just for you, Quck, since you're still of the opinion that China is on RuZZia's side: The stated reason is that China needs those processors for its own military. But we all know that the underlying reason is because China doesn't want to actively support the loser in this war. Instead, they're content with taking advantage of discounts on RuZZian natural resources. Just like North Korea. Tenchusatsu ******* China Deals Hammer Blow to Russia's War Effort (msn.com) Beijing has reportedly banned the supply of military-grade processors to Russia produced by Chinese company Loongson, in a potential setback to Moscow's war effort in Ukraine.