Russia to Hire Contract Soldiers in Bid to Avoid Unpopular Draft. Russia is preparing to enlist more contract soldiers as it presses its invasion of Ukraine, aiming to avoid at least for now another mass call-up that could undermine popular support for the war
This baffles me
It shouldn’t. Russia controls all of its media. To Russians, Putin is fighting a war to free their ancestral homeland from Nazis.
Not only its own media, but almost all russian language media throughout the world is monitored and controlled by the russian government. If the only language you know is russian, it’s very hard to get unbiased information.
I am sure you have very credible sources for this conspiracy theory, because as opposed to those stupid Russians, you know English and are capable of critical thinking, so this isn’t just something you’ve heard from totally different and very honest media and accepted to be true, so would you be so kind to share them?
Definitely, after all, it’s a known fact that the most popular western social platforms such as Reddit, Facebook, Discord, Instagram and previously Twitter are very open and never ban people for speaking out things that don’t agree with the current narration, as opposed to Telegram for example (where a lot of russian-speaking people communicate and get their news from), which is known to ban people based on politics. Or wait, is it actually the other way around?..
At this point it’s pretty obvious that all you need to make something popular is to have all the media repeat it in unison. Works great on our people as well.