Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, has passed a bill that allows the use of the country's military to “protect” Russians who are being…
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…
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.
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…
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.