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Watch Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, you will feel better about killer plant movies...

The USA arrested quite a few and jailed some, wikipedia says:
There also were the inevitable conflicts between police and protesters.

I expected Russia would be more aggressive about enforcement, but maybe they don't need to.

I meant conscription similar to what America did during involvement in the Vietnam war. The government had a list of some 25 million available (people who had never been in the military) and conscripted about 2 million from that list, and many were in combat over the years (about 25% of the guys in combat zones were people who had not volunteered).

I am still not sure how that compares to what Russia is doing, but I meant the Russian conscription that happened about 6 months into the war, where you saw videos of people being grabbed off the streets. Those that resisted the conscription or protested the conscription, probably were sent into the ever-dangerous infantry units. It is a buy-one-get-two bargain for the Russian government, to have a cannon fodder guy and to lose a protestor.

It would be interesting to see if a larger ratio of Russians were conscripted from the more culturally diverse Russian regions than from the Moscow area.

That's not a Russian thing... it is what has been happened with every military for thousands of years. The guys who are conscripted as "cannon fodder" don't have a choice. If you do not obey, you are a traitor and may be killed, and your family may be imprisoned or killed. If you obey, it is just you that will be killed.

Every military has some type of "military police" and Putin has called himself a Chekist (Lenin's Cheka). You can bet that the Russian military includes covert military police and political officers, and they point machine guns at the suicide wave and tell them to charge the enemy.

This is the most dangerous thing about living in a nation that allows conscripted citizens to be used in offensive wars, because the people in charge of the conscription always send "unwanted citizens" into the most dangerous units and most dangerous conflicts, and the leaders start offensive wars as a reason to send those unwanted citizens to their death. During the first Russian conscription, the Russians who protested on the street or tried to avoid conscription... how many of them do you think were part of those suicide attacks?

This "no speaker" situation could go on until the funding CR expires, because it is in the best interests of the Freedom Caucus. They don't care if the institution cannot function, they only want control of it. The group voting against Jordan will cave when that funding CR expires.

While fascists are in the minority, they attempt to weaken the state institutions to gather support to their cause, by creating reasons for public discontent through their own actions.

I do this sort of thing after bad events. Gates are locked, large work orders are suspended, some labor groups are turned off, and barracks and squad schedules deactivated. After a couple of months, flip it all back on.

@Strongpoint
Yes, the geo-political impact is greater, but the geo-economic impact will be less. Israel doesn't export large amounts of anything in comparison to Ukraine.

And you must have seen news coverage of other events that took away from Ukraine coverage, but then the coverage returned.

I don't like to think about the quantities of people either, but I do it because it must be done. Only the living can remember the dead.