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Related: About this forum'Something Dire' About to Happen in Russia. Recruitment Speeds Up. Pyramid Scheme - The Russian Dude
In 2025, Russias justice system has transformed into a nationwide military recruitment machine, bypassing trials and sentencing in favor of shoving citizensguilty or notstraight to the frontlines in Ukraine. Police stations now double as enlistment centers, with officers coercing petty offenders, the homeless, and even crime victims into signing military contracts under threat of prison. What began as isolated abuses has evolved into a state-backed pyramid scheme, offering cash bounties and promotions for every recruit delivered, regardless of fitness or consent. In some regions, governors openly fund these quotas, turning law enforcement into human traffickers for the war effort. The result is a total collapse of legal protections: courtrooms replaced by trenches, punishment replaced by combat, and justice replaced by profit. No Russian is safe from being rounded up, marketed as a patriot, and shipped to die for a war they never chose. This is the brutal reality behind Russias accelerating recruitment driveand the dangerous signs that something dire is about to happen.
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'Something Dire' About to Happen in Russia. Recruitment Speeds Up. Pyramid Scheme - The Russian Dude (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Aug 17
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Lovie777
(20,019 posts)1. More to the meat grinder.................
Putin for at least a decade if not longer have killed thousands if not millions including Russians all because of power and money. He does not believe in peace and the welfare of human kind.
gab13by13
(29,647 posts)2. This is nothing new, click bait for the Russian Dude
A month ago Krasnov initiated a 300,000 plus draft. Millions of Russians have fled Russia since the beginning of the war.
Be careful where one gets his/her news of the war. Something dire has been happening, it's called a war.
Putin also uses a lot of mercenaries to fight in Ukraine. Russia has about 3 times the population of Ukraine, Putin has a lot of cannon fodder.
A month ago Krasnov initiated a 300,000 plus draft