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?
As somebody from Russia, I would be fine with USSR draft. Protecting my Motherland and fellow workers from capitalist assholes is a thing I find worthy to put my life on. However, paying with my own blood for capitalist geopolitical games and our bourgeoisie - I do not find appealing.
I am sitting here, in Russia, in contact with soldiers and all news on the line and I can see how all this shit is going on. The whole operation which some morons around here put as a line of victories with inevitable success was a line of fuckups over fuckups. Day by day. Driving us closer not to the inevitable victory, but to a certain fucking defeat. Without the mobilization it all was doomed to fail. It was supposed to happen way before Ukraine got saturated with high-quality western weaponry, while they were weak. Now when it’s fucking late they suddenly decide it’s time to go.
THEY allowed those Nazis to breed there calmly for YEARS. DECADES. THEY destroyed the big united country we lived in. THEY turned our lives into an endless ocean of fucking despair, which we experience daily walking out into the dimming daylight. THEY robbed us of any fucking future. Now THEY are sending us to die for them. WE will be sitting there on the frontlines with no medicine (confirmed problem, even bandages are scarce), no food (confirmed by relatives who returned from the front, those cases of maraudeurs going for stuff in Ukraine might’ve been caused by lack of food supplies), no equipment (confirmed by fellas in the acting military, no optics, no NVGs, lack of simple things like leg and arm protection, lack of additional uniforms). While THEY and THEIR children, like young “Master Peskov” and other similar removed will be sitting in safety.
I would rather shoot those fucking smug capitalist assholes who are sending us to die for their fuckups and their cash. Nazis can wait. We’ve got similar nazi capitalists sitting right here. They just play their games with the good guy faces right now. In reality, in peace time they can do as much shit as those fuckers in Ukraine. They just don’t need swastikas to rally their supporters, they’ve got different symbols for that.