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    Ukraine reinstates conscription

    BBC News - Ukraine crisis: Kiev reinstates conscription

    Ukraine's acting President Olexander Turchynov has reinstated military conscription to deal with deteriorating security in the east of the country.
    Of course this is nothing to worry about, this will not become a regional conflict, nor a european one.
    Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.

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    I've been building some electromagnets recently as part of my robot project, I plan to use them as simple linear actuators, controlled via PWM switching a FET, in place of servos.
    While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'

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      #3
      Violently overthrow the democratically elected government in the name of freedom! Reinstate conscription in the name of...er...

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        #4
        I thought they'd always had conscription.

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          #5
          Originally posted by stek View Post
          I thought they'd always had conscription.
          They haven't, but only since end of 2013.

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            #6
            Originally posted by stek View Post
            They haven't, but only since end of 2013.
            So all good then? Nothing to see here, move on?
            Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.

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              #7
              Originally posted by stek View Post
              I thought they'd always had conscription.
              Not after eating prunes
              "A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell

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                #8
                America is getting a bit like the UN, they've done the strongly worded letter

                What are they going to do next, threaten to send the Bieber if Putin doesn't back down ?
                Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the state.

                No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent.

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                  Originally posted by SpontaneousOrder View Post
                  Violently overthrow the democratically elected government in the name of freedom! Reinstate conscription in the name of...er...
                  It's not Russia that's pushed Ukraine to the brink of war | Seumas Milne | Comment is free | The Guardian

                  The threat of war in Ukraine is growing. As the unelected government in Kiev declares itself unable to control the rebellion in the country's east, John Kerry brands Russia a rogue state. The US and the European Union step up sanctions against the Kremlin, accusing it of destabilising Ukraine. The White House is reported to be set on a new cold war policy with the aim of turning Russia into a "pariah state".

                  That might be more explicable if what is going on in eastern Ukraine now were not the mirror image of what took place in Kiev a couple of months ago. Then, it was armed protesters in Maidan Square seizing government buildings and demanding a change of government and constitution. US and European leaders championed the "masked militants" and denounced the elected government for its crackdown, just as they now back the unelected government's use of force against rebels occupying police stations and town halls in cities such as Slavyansk and Donetsk.

                  "America is with you," Senator John McCain told demonstrators then, standing shoulder to shoulder with the leader of the far-right Svoboda party as the US ambassador haggled with the state department over who would make up the new Ukrainian government.

                  When the Ukrainian president was replaced by a US-selected administration, in an entirely unconstitutional takeover, politicians such as William Hague brazenly misled parliament about the legality of what had taken place: the imposition of a pro-western government on Russia's most neuralgic and politically divided neighbour.

                  Putin bit back, taking a leaf out of the US street-protest playbook – even though, as in Kiev, the protests that spread from Crimea to eastern Ukraine evidently have mass support. But what had been a glorious cry for freedom in Kiev became infiltration and insatiable aggression in Sevastopol and Luhansk.

                  After Crimeans voted overwhelmingly to join Russia, the bulk of the western media abandoned any hint of even-handed coverage. So Putin is now routinely compared to Hitler, while the role of the fascistic right on the streets and in the new Ukrainian regime has been airbrushed out of most reporting as Putinist propaganda.

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                  Interesting read from the Guardian

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                    #10
                    Wasn't he one of the lefties who was cheering on September 11th, not that I'm saying he's biased on anything or that the Guardian would write any anti American bigotry but it looks like typical Guardian racism to me...
                    Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the state.

                    No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent.

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