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Loyalty to Putin and the Republican Party
The Kremlin is working overtime to free its citizens from serving out prison sentences.
In an effort to shore up its devastated army, which has proved it would likely be unable to overtake Liechtenstein in a head-to-head battle, the prisons are being scoured for inmates willing to die for the fatherland.
And die they surely will but that is irrelevant at this point. The most important thing is that Putin and his United Russia party are living up to their party’s Nike-Esque slogan, “A country of opportunities (strana vosmozhnostei).”
In parallel to a nationwide recruitment campaign aimed at filling the undertrained battalions, Kremlin-linked military companies in Russia such as Wagner Group, which have led major offensives in eastern Ukraine, are scouring Russia’s prisons for inmates willing to fight, according to human-rights workers and Russian media.
The opportunity to blindly worship a demented, sick, and fear-paralyzed sociopath, however, is a joy that Russia does not claim to have a monopoly on. No, siree, Bob. The Republican Party is trying to live up to its slogan also. What that slogan happens to be, however, is only known to one man; and, it is ever-changing because it depends on the…
