Putin’s regime ‘will not survive’ this war

[@unworthy42]

It would be better for everyone if Putin doesn't survive the end of the week. : )

[@andyhart358]

Not before he's paid my gas bill.

[@FreaksSpeaks]

One for all and all for one.😀

[@claireshaw2980]

Trouble is the little circle around him are just as bad as he is. If he goes another putin pops up. It's like whack a mole

[@mattsullivan7363]

U.S. U.K.stopped negotiations for peace. So, cold winter with a possibility of nuclear war. US neocons get what they want, less people The US is the evil empire as usual.

[@yt.personal.identification]

There is no guarantee that what comes next is any better.

[@mjhzen8313]

I must admit that human beings puzzle me. It boggles my mind how one demented old man can cause such death and destruction.

[@throughput6674]

If you think this is about one man you must be very gullible. And only get you "information" from an echo chamber.

[@nigelborthwick8281]

When you have been in power for to long your ego or mind set becomes that you believe everything you do to be just and when you have all yes men etc around you for to long you think you are invincible etc ! Also like all dictatorships he's a one man band ! That's why it's been called Putin's war!!!

[@alanbudde8560]

Yet it happens again and again through history.

[@authenticshift5515]

You mean Joe Biden?

[@jamesnguyen7069]

putin just a puppet. a lot of stronger men than him

[@bluecanary9417]

For a nation so obsessed with its history, Russia never seems to learn from its mistakes.

[@rayhill5767]

Alcoholism

[@somethinglikethat2176]

@@rayhill5767 I don't know. Australia seems to manage ok.

[@TommyTCGT]

Wot mistake.. starting the SMO after 8 years of Ukies/nutto shelling Donbass, killing 16K civvies, pushing for nato to Russ.. borders, ignoring Minsk2 which would have kept Donbas IN Ukie!

[@Martin-qm2lg]

Just stunning.

[@0816M3RC]

@@TommyTCGT I seem to recall Russia claiming that it wasn't going to invade Ukraine.

[@bingo7799]

Putin's call for more soldiers make me think of Hitler's last days conscripting young boys for his desperate condition.

[@karabenomar]

If Steiner attacks, everything will be all right.

[@1man1bike1road]

only this guy has no idiology just power crazy

[@stevenleslie8557]

Not just young men but old men as well. I really wonder just how far the loyalty to Putin goes?

[@michaeldunham3385]

Young boys and old men

[@pmcd6414]

Does that get you hard when you think of it?

[@unduloid]

Well, for all the parents despairing over their sons being sent to war: You could have known where things were heading when Russia invaded Crimea. You still had a chance to do _something_ back then. So why didn't you? Also, as much as I feel for those parents and their sons, I feel way more for all the people in Ukraine who lost their children at Russian shelling of their towns.

[@chistinelane]

Do what? Vote against Putin? They did, a vast majority. Putin won anyways. This isn't the U.S.

[@malik479]

Russia didn't "invade" Crimea, Crimea was not part of Ukraine. That's why it's so important to ignore historical context.

[@unduloid]

@@malik479 Nonsense. Crimea is most definitely part of Ukraine, and Russia explicitly acknowledged this by signing the 1994 Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances. Of course, it's now clear that Russia does not care about treaties or international law, which also makes negotiating with the Russians completely useless.

[@oliverhenry4407]

It should be understood that "reservists" in Russia is not like reservist in western militaries. In the USA, the National Guard - or state militias - is the reserve of the armed forces, army national guard, air national guard etc. These are well trained units who are integral to the armed forces and very well equipped - and can be at the front within a few weeks if not days. In Russia, reservists are what in the USA we would call the "ready reserve"... not all that ready to be honest, just former military veterans who are on a list in the Pentagon. Most have not seen a weapon or inside a military barracks in years and years. What Russia is basically doing is instituting a draft among the 2 million in its 'ready reserve'. They will draft the 300K within that list who they deem necessary to their war effort... Mostly young, former conscripts, likely with combat training. They will not go willingly or happily. This is the beginning of the end, for when you weaponize people who don't like what you are doing and see themselves as nothing but meat for the grinder, then you are finished. Ask the Czar in 1905 or in 1917... those were conscripts that stormed the Kremlin. Lesson: Don't give weapons to people who may not be on your side - especially when you have a poor officer corps.

[@KatiePhongh]

Even within US Army Active Reserve units it takes months to get them to the battle field. First they will begin the process of activation which alone takes about a week of doing paperwork, getting inoculations, making a will, drawing new equipment, doing extensive inventories of everything from their uniforms to vehicle parts, packing thousands of palates of gear and supplies and so on... Then just about every Active Reserve combat unit will be deployed to a major training center for at least another month of intensive combat training at places like NTC in California. Then they are deployed to combat. For the Russians it will take them at least 6 months to put anyone in Ukraine who can tell which end of a rifle is dangerous let alone be combat effective. This is a joke. Russia is done. All that is left is the slow creep of inevitability as tens of thousands of young Russian men die in the mud of a cold rainy Ukrainian spring.

[@geofo60]

Will we see a repeat of the Battle for Stalingrad with respect to these conscripts ? One "rifle" between three men and when the first one falls, the next one in line picks up the weapon and so on? Or will it be a repeat of the last couple of months, where they will drop it and run away ?

[@aleinstein3223]

@@KatiePhongh and winter is coming

[@jurgen4466]

Yes the people of russia will rise against the butcher and pshycopath little putin! Your time is soon here putin! 😁😆🥳

[@MrVenturadog]

Seems like a lot of soldiers who didn't want to fight just surender to Ukraine forces fast. Have a feeling a lot more people will be surrendering to urkane.

[@Aluminata]

An act of tremendous desperation.

[@Realist369]

It’s called power and intelligence,things european and USA leaders can only dream of

[@ggrey5990]

How so?

[@DoughnutsInspace]

@@Realist369 Ha! Please explain then why Dicktator Pootin and his unmerry band of chocolate fireguard troops are having their yellow bellied arses handed back to them? Dicktator Pootin and his worm army wouldn't know what intelligence is as it takes at least half a brain cell to know the meaning of the word and thats at least two thirds more than Dicktator Pootin has.

[@howmathematicianscreatemat9226]

Why? On KZbin he is still celebrated as the ULTIMATE symbol of what it means to be a true alpha man. He is celebrated for his extremely awesome body language, his impressive body, his amazing persuasion skills and his stoic calmness under pressure…

[@howmathematicianscreatemat9226]

@@Realist369 so, did I get your point correctly: you are claiming that putin plays desperate as a strategic chess game move. Is that what you meant with his superiority in intelligence ?

[@anthonybyrnes2561]

Putin cancelled his big announcement on TV during prime time the night before, and slyly announced it the next morning, when many Russians had already gone to work.

[@jamesnguyen7069]

now theyre fleeing for the borders

[@MrZlocktar]

The opposite of your bs. He waited for a moment when entire Russia at once can see this on TV during national prime time. Russia is the biggest country on the globe, they have a LOT of time zones with huge differences in time. So there is a very specific prime time in Russia. Something you need to know, cause now that collective west forced them to start mobilizing, this isn't going to end well for collective west at all.. There is a reason Head of ministry of defense stated about 25,000,000 reserve resource of Russia. That's a signal, that Russia is fully committed to the cause. This world is living it's last moments before the calamity. One of the sides, Russia or US has to lose this war willingly. But the thing is, non of them can lose this war or going to lose it willingly and stakes are getting higher by the day. The paradox which inevitably leading us to MAD.

[@ronnierobinson1502]

TRUE

[@knyghtryder3599]

It's exactly what a sniveling loser would do

[@evieshore3270]

@@MrZlocktar blah blah bladibly blah blah

[@rogerwilco2]

So far, most of the casualties on the Russian side have not been ethnic Russians from the Russian Federation. Fighters from the LPR and DPR, Chechens, Syrians, Wagner mercenaries, various minorities, etc. That is why Russia can claim it has only few casualties. This is going to mean that people from Moscow and St. Petersburg are now going to be sent to the front line. This is also not going to stop at 300,000, as Russia needs many more. And a lot of reservists will not want to go to war.

[@JohnSmith-nz2yq]

The thing is...the ones getting called into action now are not from Moscow and St. Petersburg. There are plenty of smaller cities and towns all across Russia where cannon fodder can be sourced from.

[@lmcsquaredgreendale3223]

@@JohnSmith-nz2yq They are also the more sophisticated people so perhaps they know far more about the sheer number of deaths of Russian soldiers and how well the Ukrainians are fighting to repel the Russian hordes and they will fight the summons. The majority of people have been taken from the far east of Russia where poverty is rampant and education is minimal.

[@stevemcgowen]

In Mordor $1000 buys their way out of conscription. No one from Moscow or SPB will be drafted…

[@PhilThurston64]

Young men in Moscow and St. Petersburg have already received call-up papers. Finally! Now ethnic Russians can start feeling the pain. It's about time.

[@newton18311]

There has been Russia casualty's. But they are from the provinces Not many go from the Big city's.

[@ronagoodwell2709]

Everyone suffers for one man's delusions. And he will never take responsibility for the worst, as it happens, as it has already happened.

[@johannilsson1984]

Sadly, it's not one man. Millions of Russians supports what he's doing, and when he's replaced he will probably be replaced by someone who thinks just like him. Or maybe even worse.

[@TommyTCGT]

Agree, an admitted coke-head. controlled by cia/Mi6 and nutto, sending 10s of 1000s of Ukie troops into meat grinder.

[@0816M3RC]

@@johannilsson1984 Russia needs to be destroyed.

[@kuangtien3980]

Putin and Trump , like minds ,....both have a Malignant Narcissist Personality Disorder. Always right , never wrong , corrupt , greedy and lack empathy for others !!.... both self imploding at the same time !! .....both are bigly losers !

[@tarionmarsden157]

Y

[@hybridarmyoffreeworld]

Whatever danger might come from a wounded pootler , it's nothing compared to the danger of a victorious, unbridled pootler . No compromise.

[@claesvanoldenphatt9972]

Relentlessly destroy all ruZZiyan orc military forces, bring the terrorist nation to its knees. Occupy Moscow and force a new constitution forbidding all military development. Dismantle RF and set Eurasian peoples free from moskali yoke!

[@greatunwashed1856]

Quite right.

[@rossgeography]

this is basically a fight about which political ideology you back - authoritarianism or democracy (imperfect as it is I'm on this side)

[@phillhall2576]

Yep, no expense should be spared in the process of stopping Poo-Tin an those who support him an his regime. Continue administering justice Ukraine.

[@pmcd6414]

How would Russia win against the mighty west?

[@tomd5678]

If India is part of this alliance.....why are they allowed to process our personal information

[@YenZenBamboo]

He won’t even survive a walk down any local street at this point.

[@L1vv4n]

Unfortunately, he never walked a street in three decades.

[@elspoocho4637]

i don't think that was the case 7 months ago

[@alexvlasny9755]

“I know I lie all the time, but this time, believe me, I’m not bluffing!, ya’ll!”

[@frederickmiles8815]

300k peasants will make for good fertilizer for next years Ukrainian crop season. Czar Putin is going to end up like Nicholas II at this point.

[@authenticshift5515]

The West are happy to sacrifice their Ukrani proxies. War in Iraq and Libya was great fun - but Europe much better.

[@jamesnguyen7069]

russians are too skinny. no good for ground

[@Torchriver67]

It’s so sad that uneducated peoples will be used as sheep to the slaughter!

[@kathybancroft656]

Hope springs eternal

[@TommyTCGT]

Out of touch with reality, Freddie. Open Moon of Alabama or The Saker.. and cry for your Nazis.

[@AnotherPointOfView944]

The fact that Russia is mobilizing men up to 65 years of age smacks of desperation. How useful will a 65 year old man be? Mostly not very, in fact probably more of a liability to their forces than anything else.

[@stagg2158]

Russia hardly ever look back at their dead or wounded so all the older men that sprain and ankle will be left right there on the battle field if they are not killed right away...

[@stephenmackenzie9016]

They could catapult them into buildings

[@TommyTCGT]

Do you have access to the Russian Military command morning meetings?

[@0816M3RC]

@@TommyTCGT You don't.

[@docbogus6128]

Moving story about the parent reacting to the news. Important to feel there are people on the other side, in spite of the zombies in the Kremlin.

[@juliehunt795]

Assassination of the clinical idiot would resolve this issue.

[@YourTypicalMental]

That's giving the Russian people too much credit. These are the same people that in the nineties finally got a Democracy and gave it up over the course of a couple of decades because it was more convenient to ignore what Putin was doing so long it was someone else problem.

[@jackgrant9301]

Totally. I'd say they're scared too. Go against putin and you'll be murdered or get some bogus charge that will land you in prison.

[@katewoolf6059]

I am not moved at all. Russia invaded Ukraine 8.5 years ago. Only now are these ppl upset. Selfish AF, deserve what they get

[@ilaser4064]

And these people need to rise up, it's not my government sentencing their people to death by sending them on an imperialistic fools errand. Maybe when those coming back in caskets start coming from the major cities the Russians will stop being so apathetic to the amount of death and destruction being carried out in their names...

[@gdfggggg]

He likes referendums, maybe he could do a referendum on conscription? Thought not.

[@michaeldunham3385]

Only when the results of referendums or elections are predetermined

[@ThugLife___]

Perhaps on the war itself... or his own presidency

[@EverythingCameFromNothing]

Exactly!!

[@Borzoi86]

Remember what Uncle Joe said: "It doesn't matter who votes. What matters is who counts the votes!"

[@putler965]

The conscription referendum would pass with 110% of the vote.

[@malfunkt]

Putin " no major losses", Shoigu "only 6,000 killed" and then oh btw we need special mobilisation. This war will end on the battlefield or when the Russian people decide they have had enough.

[@TommyTCGT]

Rollocks.. what about 300+K Ukies deaded?

[@Pemmont107]

@@TommyTCGT I have absolutely no idea what you just wrote.

[@0816M3RC]

@@Pemmont107 He is a disturbed Russian fanboy high on copium.

[@0816M3RC]

@@TommyTCGT Just so you know.. Russia Today (RT) is a biased news channel.

[@hb1338]

@@TommyTCGT They were civilians.

[@RebeccaTreeseed]

If Putin didn't feed and arm his first batch of Cannon fodder, who thinks he will take care of the next batch?

[@popscratchie3985]

Or pay them

[@aaronnewman80]

🤡

[@TommyTCGT]

5K Russ dead, 300+K Ukies/nutto dead. Any mpre daft ideas?

[@0816M3RC]

@@TommyTCGT Did Russian propaganda give you those numbers? 🤣🤣🤣

[@PK-kr5bk]

What gets me is the amount of refrigerated railroad cars are filled with Russian dead. I just haven’t seen anything like that anywhere else. Do you have any ‘official’ reporting, not just what they say their enemy has lost but their own?

[@jorgkaufmann6363]

Putin's regime will not survive this war. We all hope that is true. But the question is who survives this war.

Everybody except ruSSia

[@semperfidelification]

I know I will

[@joyhouse4625]

300,000 troops? No way Putin army can give equipment + train up 300,000 troops in less than 3 months. Ukrainian people + army have win 🏆 too keep this war going is pointless and lead to thousands of people deaths. No need for a long-term war in Ukrainian by the Russian federation . If putin army leave now 😤 alot people life's can be saved. 300,000 troops want be worth nothing because want be well trained in modern warfare or have the equipment to survive In Eastern European winter . Ukrainian people need No fly zone.

[@jeffreyhanc1711]

Precisely. Too many media analysts (at least here in the US) seem to exude this assumption that Putin is so horrible that anyone BUT Putin would be better - not taking into account that there are far worse, far more militant ultranationalists there chomping at the bit to be next tzar.

[@johnhopkins6260]

yet another of the long, sordid parade from the last 100 years (1918-2022)

[@johnswimcat]

I have a lot of time for this lady. Calm, sensible, measured and well informed words.

[@nole8923]

One can only hope.

[@slimeyfox7870]

Soviet era weapons cannot defeat precision guided missiles that were built yesterday. It is like buying a 1980s computer and trying to make it go as fast as Windows 10 i7 CPU.

[@kakkarakkine3907]

year 2022.... who still have win 10? 😮

[@diigitalname6582]

Spot on! Someone should enlighten the old timers

[@jessicadorion8507]

So I'm guessing you missed the missile that was found in Ukraine that is so advanced the usa nor Ukraine or any of their allies know or can figure out how they pulled off this kind of technology? I'm guessing you don't think they have more of those to use before the usa can study it and try to master that technology as well? Lol

[@1man1bike1road]

if it was going against Ukraine they would just get more and better weaponry USA has 200 mile range guided rockets Ukraine will get them if Russia makes inroads

[@jjryan1352]

Well that's what the Ukies are using. The West has given up sending their high tech stuff and looking for old Soviet gear to send them. If you think that Russia doesn't have high tech weaponry you've been asleep for a long while.

[@captainbuggernut9565]

It won't but we have to make sure we do. I think at this point serious consideration needs to be given to how we can support those people capable of removing him.

[@michelleper5065]

this "platform" does not let you write anything in favor or russia, it is just stunning the crimes against humanity being done between 2016-2022, stunning!

[@pmcd6414]

I think you should do it👍

[@chiefamsterdam1776]

we dont want or need sec ;'' Israel in Europe ' --- God save Russia God bless Putin ... !!!!

[@michelleper5065]

@@chiefamsterdam1776 what do you mean

[@henriikkak2091]

There are no decent people capable of removing him. It's a mafia

[@SM-wl4ko]

Putin- in order to confuse my opponent I must first confuse myself!

[@stephenroldan5107]

He should send lavrof

[@tradeladder146]

Lavatory Lavrov.

[@Andrew-tx9jy]

When 141 countries say you're wrong, you seriously need to change your ways...

[@pipatjeamsawangporn7234]

Putin's / game over

[@coreyham3753]

Not looking good for Putin. His days are numbered now.

[@TommyTCGT]

Prez Purin said.. Game Over, when he ordered the vote for the 4 pro Russ territories to Join Russ.

[@spacecadet35]

300,000 additional poorly armed light troops, with no heavy weapons, no logistics, minimal training and no desire to be there? I can't see this ending well for Russia.

[@rolopolo66]

Love the optimism. Hope you’re right.

[@bigdada018]

Blessings, peace and luck from California to Ukraine 🙏🙏✌🍀💙💛 F Putin!!

[@mikeshoults4155]

Regular Russians are too apathtic to fight the conscription. They will be led like lambs to the slaughter. It's so sad, if only they put up more of a fight, they might be able to save themselves.

[@michaeldunham3385]

You make it sound like they have a choice

[@fanfeck2844]

They better grow a pair one way or another. Might be safer fighting in Moscow than Ukraine

[@Scaleyback317]

Then they will, for sure, be slaughtered. The Ukrainians seem to be keen in giving Russia that option

[@throughput6674]

Exactly how many Russian do you know?

[@alanbudde8560]

They dont need to fight they just need to run away and the result will be the same.

[@jeffreydonlin3112]

300,000 who have served already, now being sent to fight an unwanted senseless WAR to possibly die for no reason.

[@thedude2916]

The Turkish leadrr said Putin must give Crimea back too, and China wants Russian land.

[@ehayes7849]

well China has no problem buying up US land (how many square miles now?) and can certainly provide funds to Russia by buying their land - don't know how many square miles China may have already purchased in Russia.

[@keegan773]

China has its piggy eyes on Vladivostok so Putin had better keep looking over his shoulder. China and Russia are involved in joint military exercises. China will be judging how weak Russia really is.

[@michaeldunham3385]

Never going to happen on both counts, but I also saw nothing about this is it a reliable source?

[@gandalfstormcrow2486]

@@michaeldunham3385 Ukraine is going to take Crimea.

[@andreasmaurer8802]

@@michaeldunham3385 yeah, Erdogan said for it to be "peace between both nations" , Crimea has to be returned to Ukraine. You can search it.

[@TheRemcovanreems]

A woman to my heart. She s sharp. She Sees. She Understands. Never Give Up Samantha.

[@jurgen4466]

We most stand united against the evil of russia! Please continue support Ukraina with heavy weapons and aid! As well as continue the sanctions towards russia! Ukraina fights for their freedom as well as the world! Glory to the heroes! Freedom to the people! Slava Ukraina! 💙💛💙💛 🇸🇪

[@pmcd6414]

They don't read comments. Sry.

[@pmcd6414]

How many of its own citizens have Ukraine accidentally unalived while fighting Russia? Collateral damage I guess 💇

[@bvhdm1614]

Wrong flag

[@ggrey5990]

I presume you've had all your boosters jurgen

[@jurgen4466]

Its not wrong flag I am from Sweden 🇸🇪

[@maryewanlass7273]

Pooty could take a win here by declaring his military exercises are over. Nazis have been eliminated and he's pulling his troops home.

[@VenturiLife]

He would, if he could hold onto his ill-gotten gains of Crimea and the Donbass, as he claims these are parts of Russia. Ukraine will not allow it and want to reclaim the territory, so that victory condition doesn't work.

[@EverythingCameFromNothing]

…and then all the territories would be taken back by Ukranian forces. How does that make putin look good? Glory to Ukraine and shame on Russia!!

[@johnswimcat]

That's a bit of a stretch but it might work. It looks as if the Russian people will believe whatever they are told by their beloved state media. There seem to be some very creative story tellers in Russia!

[@joachimguth6226]

Somebody has to put this in Putin’s mouth.

[@joz9515]

He could but he just wants the land,

[@Pyriold]

While putin may not (literally) survive this mess, i am afraid that the regime will indeed survive and may even become more crazy.

[@rayhill5767]

Not really the history of Russian despots. Certainly not now as there is no guiding ideology beyond pure aggression and kleptocracy.

[@hb1338]

It is Putin's regime, he has appointed every senior member. If the generals decide to remove him from office, they will make their own appointments.

[@TheBeingReal]

Being short on arms, they’ll use the Stalin method: front line has guns. Second line picks up the guns from the dead…

[@tombowen6430]

The priority to be armed will be the back line who will be shooting the front lines for retreating.

[@robinlillian9471]

That is an incredibly good way to lose. The Russian soldiers will revolt unless they are defending their own homes--which they are not.

[@dericofdorking]

Third line holds the ammunition, two bullets!!

[@TheBeingReal]

@@robinlillian9471 Overall, true. Russian leadership cares less about the casualty numbers. Protesting in Russia is s great way to get killed too. Catch-22.

[@TommyTCGT]

Short on arms? Didn't captured Ukies say that?

[@CorvusCorax.]

Kaputin.

[@lynnmcquillan2338]

God help Putin to admit his failings & defeat & save the lives of all innocent people on both sides 😢🙏✌️

[@MarcF.Nielssen]

God doesn't care

[@maciejpol1]

@@MarcF.Nielssen nor does putin

[@lynnmcquillan2338]

@@MarcF.Nielssen Knock & the door will open ✌️

[@thejollygreendragon8394]

He's too vain and proud to admit his failings & defeat 🐉

[@benjamindavis2475]

I hope so

[@rob9263]

Enjoyed your analysis Samantha. BTW I think the darker green would go well, if it’s going to be a feature wall 👍

[@Falconer710]

How can one man do this !!! Billions of lives matter !

[@cp4512]

He’s done, and even his closest supporters are realising it.

[@TommyTCGT]

Zelensky? Yes.

[@necromancer2367]

@@TommyTCGT fail

[@terrysmith7441]

A very good journalistic report, restores my faith in media and the ability to see clearly.

[@costis2024]

I think that Russia's issue that resulted to poor performance in the Ukraine war was lack of efficient weapons in sufficient numbers and not lack of personel. This will definitely not end well not for poortin nor for Russian civilians

[@authenticshift5515]

Maybe fighting the whole of NATO as well as Ukraine is the reason only 20% of Ukraine is held at this point. Without the constant supply of weapons, intel and personnel from the collective West, Ukraine would now be in a state of peace.

[@alanbudde8560]

I saw an interesting video on this. Basically historically Russia has always had a limited core of highly trained soldiers (who are mostly already in Ukraine, or dead at this point) and the rest are basically feudal peasant style army cannon fodder. So that in mind you can see why this could really back fire on Putin.

[@costis2024]

@@authenticshift5515 that's exactly why he is such a poor strategist and a hazard to his own people. He was warned from the very beginning that the west would provide full support to Ukraine if he tried to change the borders. He miscalculated the western support and he got himself in a war with no clear gains considering the risks. He dorve the 6th or 7th power to a war against the strongest coalition the world has ever seen. He will be written in history for his poor stretegic mind and the damage he will make to his own country and people.

[@tsubadaikhan6332]

The Pentagon actually has a mathematical equation for troops needed. Russia never had enough men, and 300,000 more still isn't enough. Experts say to maintain Peace and Security you need at least 1 Soldier for every 50 inhabitants. So Putin needs nearly a million men. The equation seems strange, but it's been proven repeatedly.

[@robinlillian9471]

When soldiers don't want to fight you get poor performance.

[@sebastianwrites]

Good interview, but 'lousy' camera work... what is the point of the camera not being on the person speaking, in particular Samantha the person who is being interviewed?

[@robertmitchell633]

I’m just curious as to how he’s going to equip these reservist. Russia seems to be running out of even basic equipment

[@edwardstevens6787]

I'm sure his good friends, Iran and North Korea, will be more than happy to sell him their junk Russian knock-offs...

[@krisr3612]

They have a choice. They can choose 15 years in prison instead. More choice than was offered to the UKRAINIAN civilians. Where was their concern for the genocide being done in Russia's name? What, only now do they give a damn because it personally affects them? Well Russians, I suggest you start getting political finally and understand that Russia is responsible for it's government's actions. 🙄

[@royjacobs1204]

Every single flight out of Russia fully booked, speaks volumes.

[@KaniToken]

a cornered animal can become very dangerous

[@RMASUPERFLY]

These are days when Putin's food taster will need his own food taster. That man can't sleep at night for sure.

[@bagmuk6]

The dark green in the middle is to dark for that room

[@CharlesDParker]

What do you think Russian reservists will be like? Will Russian reservists be well trained and in condition to be ready to be on the front line, because that is where they are needed and that's where they will be sent. Will Russian reservists be better than their conscripts who have been nothing but cannon fodder for over half a year of this special operation. Will Russian reservists even show up when called? We'll soon see if Russian reservists can save Putin and his special operation. Will Russians continue to support Putin when his reservists fall in battle, are buried in mass graves in the Donbas and Lugansk, never to come home again. We will soon see what happens.

[@keithwoods7735]

The reservists are barely trained if at all. This will be suicide for them. All they have to do is protest hard and forcefully!

[@TommyTCGT]

They do not go into battle, they'll defend the 4 new territories.

[@hb1338]

@@TommyTCGT How are they going to defend anything in Ukraine without going into battle ?

[@kasondaleigh]

Excellent interview and commentary.

[@michaelvm2404]

"Putin's regime will not survive this war" Me: "And we may not survive it either".

[@machintelligence]

Be the first one on your block to have your boy sent home in a box.

[@Korvintage64]

& he knows it, hence the hysterical threats about using nuclear weapons……….. Typical bully, once stood up to starts crying about the injustice of those than oppose his vile avtions

[@karelianmghow9095]

It's game over for Putler.

[@jamesnguyen7069]

zelensky "i dont need a plane flight out, i need guns and ammo" putin " i need a plane, 300,000 men and a lot of prayers"

[@unknownninja4430]

"Muh guns and ammo", yeah from other western nations bruh... Ukraine's no different from Russia

[@hb1338]

Putin's plane would not get far from Russia before it "landed" unexpectedly. He must be hoping that one of his oligarchs can get a yacht to Crimea.

[@Luton-Mick]

Zelensky: "I don't need a plane out, I need a Columbian plane in"

[@Klaatu-gl7jg]

At the Yalta conference Stalin had asked Truman to supply condoms to the USSR. What size ? The biggest of course answered Stalin. When unpacking the boxes, all the condoms were marked: TEXAS MEDIUM 😁

[@garybala000]

His troops on the field are jumping ship like scared rats. His “combat ready” conscripts are fleeing the country on any available plane or train. What if he called a war, and nobody came?

[@papano6450]

Given how poor Russia’s logistical operations have been, I don’t see how throwing more poorly equipped and fed bodies at Ukraine is going to change the calculus much.

[@Farmer-bh3cg]

remember the Cuban Missile Crisis. Khrushchev, on the world stage was forced to remove the missiles in October 1962. A couple years later, when Nikita came into his office one morning, a group of people met him and said "Congratulations on your retirement..."

[@MrManny075]

You called Forced also it could be called bagged to remove them,

[@dutchray8880]

Ironically, Khrushchev may have been the hero of the 20th century. The last thing he wanted to do was appear weak and back down but, in doing so, he may have averted a global catastrophe. Now we have another problem if Putin falls from power because we still need a strong government in Russia. Russia has a lot of materials that we don't want to put on the open market. It's amazing how one man's impulsivity can have such far reaching consequences. This is the guy that Trump praised as a genius.

[@jefflebow8790]

BTE, after Kennedy's "victory," the USA quietly removed our missles from Turkey - the very concern of USSR that prompted the Cuban Missle Crisis. We won the public relations, USSR achieved their goal.

[@Farmer-bh3cg]

@@jefflebow8790 Kennedy had ordered the short range outmoded Jupiter missiles removed from Turkey because we had the Poseidon (SP???) coming on line. The DOD dragged their feet, which, in the end, was good as it gave us something we were already going to do, to give the Russians. You are absolutely correct that we won the public relations but we also won the table stakes, too.

[@daejavue69]

This is a very well observed view .

[@viarnay]

Russia's GDP is a joke they have potential to be ahead of Uk, Gernany and Japan but they are only two steps higher than Spain, that's ridiculous

[@joz9515]

Wanna know why? GDP I think is determined by assets contained and goods sold each year, Pootin has been pumping money each year, breaking records of military spending, investing a chunk of it into the military each year, and still getting slapped about by an "unsovereign state"

[@robinlillian9471]

@@joz9515The only way Putin has been pumping money is out of Russia and into his Swiss bank account. He never thought they might freeze his account. Whatever he invested in the army was stolen by other thieves down the line. Russia MIGHT have a better economy if Putin and the oligarchs stopped stealing from its citizens. All the countries in Vinzu's list are much warmer with better agriculture, etc.

[@jonmars9559]

What is the result of calling up 300,000 troops when you have supply, logistical and ammunition deficits? Is Putin going to send these reservists in on foot with sticks and clubs?

[@TheVoiceOfReason93]

To those who are planning to overthrow/off Putin: please send everyone the footage of his demise so we can fall asleep to it every night.

[@8BitNaptime]

I'm surprised he hasn't taken hang-gliding lessons without the hang-glider yet.

[@danblekeberg2470]

Puck Futin !!!

[@peterjaniceforan3080]

Don’t seem to send residents of Moscow and St. Petersburg to the front❓Regions and mercenaries carrying the load.

[@geraldvandewal5788]

Time will tell. And will move on.

[@nni9310]

Forza Ucraina!

[@TommyTCGT]

Slava Rossiya!!

[@naar7192]

Indeed.....

[@Scaleyback317]

The numbers he calls up is probably irrelevant. It is the number he can equip/train and then transport that are relevant. If NATO gets directly involved I guarantee they will be killed/maimed/ imprisoned faster and/or if NATO is indirectly involved then Ukrainian forces can obtain ammo faster than Putrid can transport this force into harms path

[@authenticshift5515]

NATO is already involved. Without them, there would be peace already.

[@wildmouse5888]

Russia: "well, back to the drawing board. Hey, we need more crayons".

[@garycope4238]

HE WILL FIND SOME OTHER COUNTRY TO INVADE!! WATCH OUT INDIA🤔, WELCOME TO PUTINDIA🤣😂

[@annewalden3795]

Gary if Purin tried to invade India then the rest of the world would turn on him .

[@boink800]

What will he invade with? The Babushka Brigade?

[@BLUEWAVE2024-k4f]

India has great resources.. go get it putin!

[@Robert-ns7id]

He can have India they play both sides so who needs them and why would the west come to their aid.

[@digthis9111]

Hey gary seems like you had too many mushrooms today .

[@sandybroon1962]

I'd go with the lime green paint, the dark one would make the room dull.

[@TheIamtheoneandonly1]

In other news; *One way flights out of Russia are selling out* say the headlines. Many a sane person’s reaction to the possibility of being called-up methinks. 😉

[@Luton-Mick]

But if we did that here in the West it would be "Draft-Dodgers", "Cowards" blah, blah blah...

[@johnallen7807]

Maybe now the Russian people will start to wake up especially when they are facing nearly a million well trained and motivated Ukrainians.

[@jontalbot1]

One way out is that Putin may at some announce his retirement due to ill health leaving a successor to manage a withdrawal. That might be the safest way for those around him to survive.

[@TommyTCGT]

Why withdraw when you are winning.. Russ has captured 20% of Ukie, keeping in mind these are the RUSSIAN speakers.

[@0816M3RC]

@@TommyTCGT And you Russies failed to capture Kyiv.. you failed to completely take the Donbass region and you got chased out of Kharkiv.

[@hb1338]

No successor who came to power in this way would allow Putin to live for more than 24 hours.

[@hb1338]

@@TommyTCGT Tell us about the amount of territory Russia has lost/gained since April.

[@MrCoda47]

They need to send this pick to the Frontline!!

[@drwisdom1]

The way the US works is if we are in a losing war we give up and claim we didn't lose. Our leadership doesn't get deposed except maybe in the next election. But in the likely case Russia loses then Putin is toast. So he can't give up and has to escalate.

[@michaeldunham3385]

Putin has altered the constitution to keep himself in power until 2036, I wouldn't be too critical of the US system

[@alexv1190]

No, we don't lose. We leave due to lack of support back home. Difference still..

[@pmcd6414]

Or...

[@nowthenzen]

Putin is like day old bread, soon to be toast.

[@chesslover8829]

Adolf Putin can flee to North Korea.

[@timothyehrler4325]

He can always retreat into the wilderness and chase moose and crazy squirrel! 😂😂😂

[@josephtraficanti689]

It is not only a question as to whether Putin's regime survives this war. Will Putin himself survive it is at least as interesting.

[@sa4540]

Let’s all pray!

[@Mortthemoose]

Tell your friend to injure his son somehow, so that he is unable to go to war. I know that doesn't bear thinking about, but it's the only way for him to get out of being conscripted! Russian troops in this war have been known to shoot themselves in the leg or foot, so that they can, in theory, be sent home (very unlikely I would imagine), but if they then surrender, Ukraine will send them to hospital, where they can recover.

[@hkchan1339]

Recent mass graves in Izyun suggest wounded Russians are shot and buried with the Slaughtered Ukrainians

[@1man1bike1road]

they have sent the disabled into WAR no footspur gonna get you out of this

[@stevenleslie8557]

There was a lot of this going on in the campaigns of WW2 on the Eastern Front between Russia and Germany. if you were caught doing this, it always ended badly for you.

[@johnmknox]

Surrendering is not an option for a majority of the Russian troops because anyone attempting to surrender gets shot by their own countrymen.

[@cuebj]

Trump and many other US 'heroes' of Vietnam could earn a fortune as consultants on how to avoid draft

[@JosannaMonik]

It's so hearbreaking all the men who have died on both sides; how can Russian soldiers not see through Putin's intentions?

[@christinalynn8143]

🫂🌻💙💛🌻🫂 Victory to Ukraine. Highest of hopes, if it be GOD's will. I believe Ukraine has what it takes to win the war. May their hearts 💙💛 not become hardened as a result of the war, the history of fighting. May God increase the good on the Earth and reduce evils.

[@asusrog8989]

LOL

[@lottat6003]

The mobilization may push the people too far and make people take down the dictator. ✊

[@tomsherwood4650]

So far we have heard Pootin is dying, Pootins regime will soon collapse, he will shortly be taken down etc. No fan but hope and guesses are pretty wrong so far.

[@Gus-op5ff]

It did collapse

[@fanfeck2844]

The illness thing was always wishful thinking

[@Scaleyback317]

The longer it goes on the more likely one or even all of those possibilities will come to fruition.

[@mgwaite10]

I’d go for the one on the left, middle one is too dark and the right is a bit dishwater.

[@SD-tq7ug]

Yes war now but had war with journalist too. In russia they are afraid of old women especially if journalist and then have to send several hitmen instead he being man to do it him selves say The Guardian and as one user commentator say about the article: "Bezdomny 5 Oct 2016 13:07 - I still remember the day Politkovskaya died. Her bravery existed in such sharp relief to the cowardice that the elite has infused in Russian society. People have been forced to live in solitary confinement; keep your head down, let society crumble so you can hold onto your own family like a life raft, or so you think. Because in a world like this, the waters are always rising, and there is never any holding onto anything. I somethings think that deep down, the true hatred of people like Elena Kostyuchenko is not that they report the truth, but that they remind an otherwise cowed and cynical citizenry that there are people who will still sacrifice for the higher ideals that they have long since thrown away for this thing we call survival. It's like a sea of caterpillars that would rather shoot down butterflies, rather than soar themselves. But I hope, one day, Russia will soar." Calling Russian = "..the cowardice that the elite has infused in Russian society." Killing old women is a cowardice action in most countries but not in Russia there its business as usual even everybody knows who did it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZ3OpIV-jqymr7s How you thinking as humans Russians?

[@michaeldunham3385]

Political assassination has been common in Russia, nothing new

[@johnfrancisco1851]

and FOOD too

[@hybridarmyoffreeworld]

Send Ukrainians everything they need to reclaim 2014 borders. Slava Ukraine ! with Love From Sweden

[@makylemur7019]

RUSSIA DELENDA EST.

[@TomSkinner]

No, not Russia, just that little weasel Putin.

[@bvhdm1614]

That's a little extreme

[@elliotmsmith]

The left paint sample would look the best on TV in my opinion

[@dellrugby]

So this is her opinion. We all have opinions. I don't support the war bud Putin is going nowhere

[@michaeldunham3385]

I don't think you can say never, this war has been a disaster

[@mcfahk]

Yes, it's her opinion. It's based on years of study and knowledge. She may still be wrong, of course. Nobody claimed her opinion was 'fact'. You have your opinion. Good for you. You may be wrong too. But what's your opinion based on? My opinion is that there is a reason that she is being interviewed, and you are just a commenter one little thread.

[@trevorroberts9584]

Of course you support Putin, and I strongly suspect that Putin is for the high road (or the long drop) within the next six months.

[@tradeladder146]

And nether are you obviously, get a Life.

[@robinlillian9471]

Putin is definitely going somewhere very soon--right out of the window of a high rise building.

[@susancorgi]

lets hope so

[@sjv9147s]

How is Putin's govt a "regime" while Biden's is an "administration", especially in view of the controversy that Trump might've actually been the right and proper POTUS?

[@jacqdanieles]

Biden was clearly elected notwithstanding the false claims of the toddler who lost. Nice try.

[@sjv9147s]

@@jacqdanieles Wasnt even a "try", pal. The facts of the controversy are known world-wide, in case you're living in a cave or American ⛺ city.

[@marcharsveld2914]

Asking dellusional questions in order to avoid the truth coming to light is a Trumpist's trait.

[@stuartfarr9325]

Do you really not know the difference?

[@eq1373]

Good point