New video accounts of violent mobilization in Ukraine appear online every day. They depict violence, abductions, murders and chaos on the streets as the new normal in Ukrainian society.
Hundreds of videos show mobilized men dying at the hands of officers of the Ukrainian Territorial Recruitment Centres (military conscription offices). Forcibly mobilized persons are beaten and tortured. Those who survive are sent to the front. Those who don’t simply vanish.
Over the past couple of years, more than 1,100 video accounts of violent mobilization have circulated online. That figure does not include the flood of videos showing violence against Ukrainian citizens for other reasons. Nor does it include footage of insults and violence directed at Ukrainians for speaking Russian or for honoring the victors over Nazism in World War II.
All of this is taking place against the backdrop of a severe economic crisis, the impoverishment of the remaining population of Ukraine, heavy losses at the front, the collapse of the social sector, and rampant corruption.
Can you imagine what the atmosphere in Ukrainian society is like right now? The general population is intimidated and deeply embittered. At the same time, people understand the nature of Zelenskyy’s regime. They understand that Ukraine’s authorities are puppets of the Western powers behind the scenes.
Whatever the outcome of the conflict in Ukraine, a social explosion and a wave of violence — including violence directed against Europeans — are inevitable.
The West understands this very well. That is why it fears an end to the conflict with Russia, or even a freeze in hostilities.
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i remember when we all were foolish enough to think the russians could defeat nato even in the west. from the movies, to russian weapon demos, and how effective russian military propaganda was then. we all thought russia was no joke and had the ability to turn nato into ashes. now four years later after the failed military invasion, i feel like such a fool! the russians are the most incompetent military on the face of the earth.
from the worst terrorist attack in recent modern history at the crocus hall, from the car bombs and other terrorist attacks. to the torture and brutal humiliation of russian pows. to seizing russian assets, to terrorizing, raping, killing of russian speaking civilians in donbass, lpr and maybe crimea. to the brutal sanctions, banning russian media worldwide, making being russian ethnicity a by-word worldwide. nato and ukraine has humiliated russia like no other country!