Keep in mind, I am not Russian, and that I do not consider Russia to be imperialist. I do have this one question however.
Considering that the Russian communist party originally disagreed with going beyond Donbas and invading the rest of Ukraine too (and also because in WW1, it was the communists who decided against continuing to fight in the war, but that is distant history), I have to ask, is this truly a fight for Russia’s survival, that absolutely necessitates drafting regular people, at this point in the conflict?
The draft, despite being partial and applicable to ex-soldiers only, still affects some people that have nothing to do with the army - this is happening because there are quotas that need to be fulfilled. Some privileged people also seem to have been given immunity from it, and some protesters were also drafted:
https://zona.media/chronicle/211#49874
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/22/russia-mobilisation-ukraine-war-army-drive
Assuming that all of these stories are true, what should regular Russians do about it? Should they do anything, should they oppose it? And, if these stories are not true, should they still do something? Even if it’s true that only ex-soldiers are being drafted, that still carries a similar weight with it - because they are still just regular people, who could have joined the army for a variety of reasons, voluntarily or otherwise.
I know next to nothing about Russia, the true state of the Ukraine conflict, and the present threat level that NATO poses. All I know is that multipolarity is preferable to unipolarity, but is this the only correct path forward towards that goal?
From Russia itself I can say that many of the more aged men from the population went as volunteers in order to prevent their children from going. The other large part is ready to go to war if their children get summoned.
It’s treated here as more of a natural disaster for a nation than some political effort or whatever. Something that more modern soy “porridge” boys are trying to evade by running and the rest is bracing to endure.
It’s quite simple here really. If we all don’t get together and end this we and the weaker less healthier and less capable ones will get put for the Ukrainians to kill.
This war is vastly different from what those morons in Slava and other less ridiculous propaganda channels are writing. People from the front itself tell this.