Decrying Ukraine war, Russian soldier seeks refuge in France

Filatiev published “Zov" on the Russian social network VK in early August. The human rights organization Gulagu helped him leave the country a few weeks later, moving him from one place to another until finally helping him reach France.

He spent two days inside the Charles de Gaulle airport, waiting to be approved for entry.

In Russia, he said, “I understood that no lawyer could defend me,” he said, a muscle in his jaw twitching. On his wrist, he wore a silver bracelet adorned with a crucifix.

Filatiev said Russia's army is degrading by the day, unable to replace the soldiers who die, are wounded or who simply don't want to fight. Gulagu, the aid organization that helped him leave, said the government has begun recruiting prison inmates.

Filatiev said the Russian military has dropped all standards on who's fit to serve. “There's a 55-year-old guy who was lying on his couch, drinking beer, and he's filled up on watching propaganda on TV," he said. “And they take this person, put him in the paratroopers, I mean in the elite, in our group. And they send him to the front without any preparation.”

“It's not because everyone was killed, as the Ukrainians say. It's because no one wants to be there,” said Filatiev. “Unfortunately, it turned out that I'm the first one who says so out loud.”

The interesting thing about any war is that a future outcome is not foreseeable. This nation did not foresee the outcome of Viet Nam, nor of Iraq nor of Afghanistan, nor of Libya and so many more. The outcome of the Ukraine / Russia conflict is also not certain in either direction, to my view.

What is certain is that Francois Hollande in Depardieu's France was driven out of office by events. Which of the European, American and Russian leaders will be standing in a year or two? Given the political fireworks in the German Bundestag only yesterday as Weidel of the AfD and Wagenknecht of dei Linke both raged against the current government, much is in flux.

What seems certain to me is that corruption -- Russian, Ukrainian, European and American (as surely the Biden administration shows) -- is at war with the average citizen there as here.

Cheering for one set of oligarchs in order to be against another set of oligarchs is not the better way to tomorrow. What tomorrow will be remains to be seen. Hopefully one in which all the oligrachs are toppled.

Their psychopathy, Machiavellianism, narcissism, pride and compulsive dishonesty will defeat them.

Contrary to the Russian propaganda, Putin's troops are the ones acting like Nazis. They think that they are terrorizing the opposition, when in fact, they are steeling determination to beat them. They don't think there will be any war trials after the war. They could be very wrong on that point.

—”No one or one man?:) LOL! And that if the story is true”

Hey, vatnick!

Appears you failed bot basic, drunk again?

You may want to study the reductio ad absurdum fallacy and other fallacious arguments.

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