BREAKING Russian airlines ordered to stop selling tickets to Russian men aged 18 to 65

[kpete]

Russian airlines have stopped selling tickets to Russian men aged 18 to 65 unless they can provide evidence of approval to travel from the Ministry of Defense.

All flights from Russia to available foreign destinations were sold out Wednesday after President Vladimir Putin declared a “partial” mobilization of the country’s 25 million reservists.

Flights from Moscow to the capitals of Georgia, Turkey and Armenia — which do not require visas for Russians — for Sept. 21 were unavailable within minutes of Putin’s announcement, according to Russia’s top travel planning website aviasales.ru.

By noon Moscow time, direct flights from Moscow to Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan had also stopped showing up on the website.

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Pay attention to this new warning from @ChrisMurphyCT:

If Republicans win the House, you can kiss any future US military funding to Ukraine goodbye.

"The MAGA wing of the party says and thinks a lot of nice things about Putin," Murphy tells us.

https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/20/chris-murphy-ukraine-republcan-house-defund/

[madashelltoo]

1. A Hostage Army

Oh, they will fight real hard. NOT!

[Texin]

27. Well, and then there's the very real possibility that those hostages will mount a coup

against Putin. He's already got a problem with his mercenary troops, and now to basically hold the entire male populace of Russia hostage to his megalomaniacal/monomaniacal will doesn't bode well for him.

[Heather MC]

2. Imagine just eating some Russian fruity pebbles for break, just chilling

And then suddenly finding out you're being drafted.
By way of entrepment
🤦🏾?♀️

RUN RUSSIANS RUN

[geardaddy]

12. And those fruity pebbles are

probably actual pebbles. Ouch!

[LudwigPastorius]

38. ...and only milk, no wodka, to put on them!

[geardaddy]

39. LOL

Yes!

[Initech]

21. Don't think that couldn't happen here.

That's a GOP wet dream to have a mandatory draft army and they could draft anyone they wanted. Give them a few election cycles with the Q nuts gaining more seats in the house and that could happen.

[niyad]

3. Well, we knew that was going to happen.

[Sanity Claws]

4. drafting men up to 65?

It is awful to draft any man for this war but men up to 65? This reeks of desperation.

[Javaman]

11. that's a general call up. usually only reserved for "total war".

he's flipped his gears and is going for broke.

he's fucked and he knows it.

he ain't backing down.

he's a one man death cult.

[Mariana]

30. He's probably not actually drafting them, but he wants them available.

In the US, men up to age 65 (born on or after April 28, 1877) had to register for the draft in World War II.

[Carlitos Brigante]

5. Eventually he's gonna run out of "kitchen sinks".nt

[Native]

6. Hahahahaha.

[Beastly Boy]

7. No need to panic.

In time, all these Russian men will get an opportunity to surrender to the Ukrainian armed forces as prisoners of war.

No visas required.

[krkaufman]

16. 10 years imprisonment

Yeah, that’s what I was thinking on seeing that Russia is updating the laws to imprison for up to 10 years anyone refusing to fight. Seems like joining-up and surrendering to Ukraine would be a better path.

[EndlessWire]

26. That's what I think.

The Ukrainians have a sense of humor. They should immediately announce that they will host those new soldiers in a winter camp far from the front lines where they will be safe and warm. Just give up your weapon, and follow me.

[Pachamama]

33. +1000000

That would likely be successful

[slightlv]

8. If Trump or any other Magat gets into Office,

we'll be sneaking out of this country if we want out, as well. Walls of any kind... physical, digital, etc... keep people in as well as keep people out.

[OAITW r.2.0]

9. Putin just missed the age cut for getting conscripted.

Maybe they can make a special exception for him. After all, if this is such an important was for Russia, Putin could help a lot by leading from the front.

[MissB]

10. One of my coworkers is married to someone from

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Russia. She came here many years ago with her then-husband and young son. She’s an American citizen now, as is her now young-adult son.

She still keeps a Russian passport.

There was some decision a few years ago to not let her son go back to Russia or to maintain his Russian passport. This was one of her fears, that he would get conscripted.

[Farmer-Rick]

13. What? Putin ran out of mercenaries to hire?

is he too broke? Maybe just take down one of his golden gates at his palace.

[Marcuse]

20. He's recruiting prisoners in the gulags.

[catbyte]

14. Yeah, they'll be super motivated to fight now. Who does he think he is, Stalin on July 3, 1941?

(Stalin was too drunk and in denial to do much of anything from June 21 - July 3.)

[spooky3]

15. Are they going to draft their top male tennis players? Nt

[Pachamama]

34. Or Oligarchs and their sons?

[lindysalsagal]

17. Escapees are going to be providing some incredible stories in the next weeks.

[Quakerfriend]

18. I bet the Baltic states are glad they just

put laws in place to bar Russians from entering.

[lpbk2713]

19. The soon to be Russian revolt will begin with Russian mothers.

They know Putin is running this war for his own benefit.

[PatrickforB]

22. The Russian version of, "Hell no! We won't go!" n/t

[Warpy]

23. Some days I wish we could just ship the fundagelical/MAGA overlap crowd to Russia

while accepting young Russians who don't want to give up what little freedom they had. It would be a good trade, except the MAGAs would all grump constantly that the Russians didn't speak English, and if it was good enough for Jebus, they needed to learn.

Such a sensible trade would never be tolerated, of course, but I can dream. It's great fun to think about MTG having to cope with what she wants to turn us into.

[FakeNoose]

40. Great idea - let Chump's zombies go and fight for Pootie

Kill two birds with one stone

[dchill]

24. Talk about being owned.

[Fullduplexxx]

25. Well now they'll get to go see the truth of what's going on there

[SWBTATTReg]

28. Putin keeps on and on and on, when the rest of Russia wants nothing to do w/ attacking another

former part of Russia. When will he ever 'get it?'

I suspect that he won't, and that before too long, something beyond his control is going to happen and he's going to be out of a job.

Way too much unpopularity w/ this war, that's already killed more than what the US suffered in Vietnam over the course of quite a few years where Russia has only been fighting in Ukraine for only a fraction of the time that the US fought in Vietnam, and deaths (the last I saw) were over 51,000 and perhaps up to 3 times this estimate.

[peppertree]

29. In Putin's Russia, flight cancel YOU

[KS Toronado]

31. And when he runs out of 18-65 year olds

Will he copy the "Hitler Youth" movement calling it "Putler Youth"?

[William Seger]

32. "The MAGA wing of the party says and thinks a lot of nice things about Putin"

They're also still PO'ed at Zelinskyy after TFG's failed shakedown.

[highplainsdem]

35. Dear Russian people: Welcome to Putin's gulag. Enjoy your stay there, for

as long as you let him stay in power.

[LudwigPastorius]

36. In ex-Soviet Russia,...

you don’t go to the front, the front comes for you!

[onetexan]

37. Hmm so now they'll be lots of road traffic to the 13 bordering countries i'm sure

Remove the democratic republics (Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland) & you've got Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, North Korea, Mongolia. Given the eastern asian countries won't be so accommodating that only leaves Azerbaijan & Belarus, WHICH both support the crazy man's war agenda so there's no recourse there either.

Yikes. The only option here is for those 300k reserves to revolt & depose El Loco Putin.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

41. MAGAts love Putin and want the U.S. to be a white theocracy with a dictator.

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!

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