The Washington Post reporting, men of fighting age, are being taken from the streets and their

places of work coerced to join the fight and Russia even forced to recruit from its own prisons.

This is how the Russian state is sponsoring terror. It's looking for killers in prisons

and promises them freedom if they kill again.

Yeah, New York Times are the great piece over the weekend of the conscripts are getting

not the people that are grabbing out of prisons as you just heard there, but the people that are grabbing

off the street, more or less, out of cafes, just walking out of the street.

Um, really young and untrained, old and fat and untrained and everything in between.

Yeah, the idea that it was just reservists was just a fiction.

Oh, well, yeah, of course.

Oh, and it's well known you can bribe your way out of military service in Russia.

So as our brilliant listener, Jeff outlined in his great piece about corruption, the Russian

military, what they're getting now is the youngest and the oldest and the poorest and the least

connected and just the unfortunate.

God dang it.

And they're being sent right to the front lines where Ukraine is just rolling over them because

they're motivated, well trained and well equipped and defending their homes.

Defending their homes.

He got some 19 year old or 59 year old with no weapon or training who doesn't want to be there.

Oh, that sucks.

Yeah, we're talking earlier about how their relatives are coming to their ship out center,

whatever they're called and handing them.

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