Russia’s State Duma passes bill allowing Putin to send troops to “protect” Russians arrested abroad (theins.press)
from Valuy@lemmy.zip to world@lemmy.world on 13 May 20:52
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Nautalax@lemmy.world on 13 May 21:11 next collapse

Is this supposed to signal against Azerbaijan and other countries that have arrested Russians vaguely recently or is this just a show to prop up the domestic situstion? Either way I don’t think they’re in a situation to do another “special military operation” any time soon…

frongt@lemmy.zip on 13 May 22:39 collapse

Probably a bit of both. Kind of like the Hague invasion act.

But they probably still have special forces teams that could do it. Those guys don’t get sent to the meat grinder in Ukraine. And Russia also has regular combat units engaged in other places like in Africa that they could pull.

thefluffiest@feddit.nl on 14 May 02:45 collapse

They have any troops left? Not according to the recent May 9 parade.