Russian-held regions of Ukraine, in Saint Petersburg on September 23, 2022
Posted on 09/23/2022 8:51:27 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
More than 140,000 people signed a petition opposing Vladimir Putin's announcement of a partial mobilization in Russia.
The Russian-language petition against conscription, titled 'Against partial and total mobilization,' was created on Change.org petition site by a user with pseudonym 'Soft Power.'
It says: "On September 21, 2022, Vladimir Putin announced the start of partial mobilization throughout Russia. Only those citizens who are in the reserve and, above all, those who served in ranks of the armed forces, have certain military specialties, will be subject to conscription for military service.
"We, the citizens of Russia, women and men, oppose general and partial mobilization. President Vladimir Putin has no legal grounds, weighted and well-reasoned reasons for announcing it, and cannot have any.
"In the current state of uncertainty we are not prepared to expose our men - brothers, sons, husbands, fathers and grandfathers - to any moral, ethical or physical danger."
Protests against mobilization have been announced for 7 p.m. local time on Wednesday, in city centers across Russia.
Thousands of Russians were arrested for attending anti-war demonstrations in February and March, after the invasion of Ukraine began February 24.
As part of the mobilization order, contracts of Russian soldiers already serving in Ukraine have been extended indefinitely.
British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said Putin's mobilization is "an admission his invasion is failing."
He said: "President Putin's breaking of his own promises not to mobilize parts of his population and the illegal annexation of parts of Ukraine, are an admission that his invasion is failing.
"He and his Defense Minister have sent tens of thousands of citizens to their deaths, ill-equipped and badly led. No amount of threats and propaganda can hide the fact that Ukraine is winning this war, the international community are united and Russia is becoming a global pariah."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
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So we’re these 140,000 signers all from Russia, or from anywhere in the world?
140,000 you say? Sounds like pretty much all the wankers in Russia....
‘It’s a 100% mobilisation’: day one of Russia’s drive to build its army
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/22/russia-mobilisation-ukraine-war-army-drive
Putin is brewing Polonium Margaritas
They don’t matter. The military is what matters, and ultimately it’s going to be their call.
Reserve of 25 million and only 300,000 were tapped.
Math fails the jackarses at the Guardian and with the propaganda peddlers within FR.
Partial mobilization.
14,000 of them are FR neocon trolls, ten times each.
Looks like Putin found his 1st 140,000 volunteers.
300,001 once you head over cowboy.
Math work for you?
What is 300000 divided by 25 million?
Change.org? I am not sure that I am buying this as a real petition. It has been awhile, but weren’t they involved in the early Obama years?
Russian-held regions of Ukraine, in Saint Petersburg on September 23, 2022
Most likely because readers would realize that all it requires is one's name and e-mail address to "sign" a petition, with no controls for location or verification of identity, as far as I'm aware. This renders the authenticity any such "change.org" petition suspect at best, and worthless at worst (arguably with less value than an online poll, since you only have the option to support the petition in question).
However, more importantly: looking up change.org petitions under the topic of "Russia" shows no such petition as described by Newsweek. If you filter by 'most recent', it doesn't come up at all. Almost as if it doesn't exist.
In other news, 140,000 new conscripts arrive at basic training...
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“Change.org” is yet another means of driving left-wing agitprop. All you have to do is look at its featured petitions, as the majority are titled in one direction: https://www.change.org/petitions
“Secure Brittney Griner’s Swift and Safe Return the U.S.” (this one is listed twice, for some reason)
“BAN AR-15 GUNS”
“Congress: Protect our Right to Choose!”
“Defend Roe: Pass Legislation to Protect Abortion Access” (this one also is listed twice!)
“To Raise Awareness to Protect Abortion Access in Texas”
“Physicians Demand Stricter Gun Control”
“Pass Universal Background Checks for Gun Sales”
“Support the Equality Act”
But if you click over to ‘recent’ (https://www.change.org/petitions?selected=recent), you’ll see that it doesn’t take much to qualify as a ‘petition’:
“Put a Bowling Alley in Seminole, TX”
“Make Spider-Man the official mascot of UTA”
“Ban Sebastian form all socials”
“Teach Grace Casserly to Drive”
In short: using a Change.org petition as a reason to write a news article, as though it has *any* relation to reality or to true public sentiment, is sheer silliness.
If they were all Russians, under Stalin, they would all be dead tomorrow, or in the gulags.
I dont think these folks quite understand how an oppressive communist state operates.
140,000 just volunteered for Putin’s army.
It would help if Russia actually were a Communist state.
(I’ll grant you “oppressive” for the sake of argument.)
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