You’re right, anything’s possible. Bibi, if you’re looking in, **** off to GC with the rest of the absolute nutters.
Just listening to an article about Russia offering violent criminals a way out of prison if they go and fight in Ukraine. On the front lines are people who have burnt people alive and stabbed their own mother to death. Russia also offering people on trial a way out of any conviction if they sign up for the front lines
This has been going on for ages, two years at least. Last I checked they'd enlisted close to 50,000 soldiers from prisons.
Are you in a timewarp or fallen off your bike and taken a knock to the head by one of your beloved rocks? The other day you was chatting about a game that had finished hours before, now you are chatting about something that was being done months ago and discussed on this thread.
It was the Wagner mercenary group doing this before. The Russian Army recruiting direct from prisons is a new development I believe.
Someone would have had to clear their release from prison in the first place, and that wasn't the Wagner group. This has been state orchestrated since day one.
Given we have a prison overcrowding issue and I constantly see adverts claiming the army is preferable to being a butcher’s apprentice in Carlisle this seems an obvious move for us.
It was an interesting article. The Russian’s were trying to prosecute a former Olympian and offered him a way out if he joined the Army. He’s refusing as he is claiming he is innocent anyway story is here on BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdrjrp7625mo Apparently Putin signed the agreement into law on 3rd Oct this year, although the practice has almost certainly been going on for a lot longer https://www.rferl.org/amp/russia-law-defendants-pressure-join-military/33144788.html
Carlisle is in Cumbria mate ... not Liverpool... always happy to help... ... and it wasn't a joke... it was a response ...