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Russia's solution for morale problems -- prison; Henry the K is no longer a tankie [1]

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Date: 2023-01-17

When your war is going badly and your soldiers are complaining that they are underfed, under supplied, freezing, lied to, not paid, used as cannon fodder and generally abused, how do you fix that?

Do a better job? Nah.

x 2/ Russia's Central Military District has instructed training units to establish detention facilities for personnel who are being disciplined. The move is in response to a request from State Duma deputy Maksim Ivanov, an ex-GRU member, who has taken a hard line on discipline. — ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) January 17, 2023

Yep. Throw those whiners in prison. The beatings will continue until morale improves.

x 4/ On his own Telegram channel, Ivanov writes that "for every hundred honest and decent mobilisers there will always be one figure who sows confusion or behaves in an unconventional manner. They should be put under lock and key." — ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) January 17, 2023

Not only is the Russian army full of complainers, it is eaten up with “women” and freeloaders too. And I always thought the Russian army was full of manly Cossacks.

x 6/ He blamed "30 year olds who are 'mama's boys' and 'wimps' who are just like women. Infantile, slack-jawed, arrogant freeloaders who only give-give-give, booze and party, but when they take responsibility they go straight to the bushes. Fake men. They're in the minority. — ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) January 17, 2023

Train in Vain? Sounds like these whiners are good candidates for the all-new Russian military prisons.

x 2/ "On 13 January a four-car train (about 200 soldiers) stopped at Ulusarka station in the Lipetsk region.



The soldiers almost got frostbite on the way to the combat zone, as it was freezing and the train was not heated in any way. pic.twitter.com/QyJixfVFf2 — ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) January 17, 2023

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Other reports of this attack say it was in the Soledar area.

x 45th artillery brigade destroy Wagner PMC members in the trench. Artillery fire corrects the 10th mountain assault brigade. There were about 35 soldiers in the trench, very accurate shell hits left them no chance. pic.twitter.com/PxNkinWrcP — Paul Jawin (@PaulJawin) January 17, 2023

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Lesson of the Day: Don’t leave your radio laying around where a drone can steal it.

x Mission Impossible: Ukrainian drone takes Russian radio communication system from the battlefield, which allows Ukrainian unit to listen to Russian communications for 9 days https://t.co/K1Mu7zfQp1 — Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) January 16, 2023

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Meanwhile, in Belarus, the rightful president of the country is put on trial in absentia.

x #Belarus The Kafkaesque trial in absentia of Sviatlana @Tsihanouskaya, @PavelLatushka and other members of @rada_vision has begun in Minsk. This is such a farce. The regime's aim is to scare the dissidents, punish them, and impose revenge. One is clear: the regime is scared. pic.twitter.com/VCqPlsyDZZ — Hanna Liubakova (@HannaLiubakova) January 17, 2023

The government in Belarus is just as complicit in the deaths and destruction of Ukraine as Putin. Lukashenko needs to be tried as a war criminal and the country should be sanctioned at the same level as Russia.

x Dear @SecBlinken, thank you for sharing our vision of democracy, rule of law & human rights in Belarus. The visa restrictions imposed by the @StateDept on individuals involved in undermining democracy are a strong signal to those who continue to repress & terrorize Belarusians. https://t.co/RZxXOCKN1E — Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya (@Tsihanouskaya) January 17, 2023

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Look who is no longer a tankie.

U.S. elder statesman Henry Kissinger on January 17 said Russia's invasion shows there is no longer a point to keeping Ukraine out of NATO, the long-held aspiration of Kyiv that he once opposed. The 99-year-old former secretary of state and apostle of realpolitik has for months advocated a cease-fire in the Ukraine war that would in effect accept some military gains by Russia. But speaking virtually to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Kissinger said that NATO membership for Ukraine would be an "appropriate outcome." "The idea of a neutral Ukraine under these conditions is no longer meaningful," he said.

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Russian propagandist gloats over missile attack on Dnipro apartment building. Russia will never rejoin the path to peace and stability until attitudes like this are no longer running the nation.

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