According to witnesses, police divide those at the gym into citizens and non-citizens. Russians are taken to enlistment offices, where their military records are checked.

Non-citizens are accused of immigration violations and given a choice: deportation, or enlistment in the army, according to Current Time, an independent Russian news platform.

https://archive.ph/kA3WV

  • barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    37
    ·
    5 days ago

    How about Cuba? Is that close enough?

    America has the highest incarceration rate in the world. The average maximum security prison holds 800-1200 prisoners. The largest, Angola, LA, holds over 8000.

    Our most famous black site, Guantanamo Bay, located in CUBA (WTF?), currently holds about 120. They are now building a facility there, that will hold 30,000 prisoners. That’s nearly 4 times our largest prison, which is already about 8 times larger than average.

    HitlerPig has already signed an Executive Order authorizing it, and has awarded a $249 million contract to construct it. Its scheduled to be finished in 2030, but it will no doubt be built in stages, so the first portions of it will probably be available by the end of 2025.

    The question is: Who do they intend to put in that new facility, which is far from any oversight by the media or the courts. It’s in fucking Cuba, which is controlled by…well, you get it.

        • Soggy@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          13
          ·
          4 days ago

          That’s the neat part, we stole it and refuse to give it back because it’s very important to have a permanent torture prison where laws don’t apply.

          Fuck this country.

            • Soggy@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              9
              ·
              edit-2
              4 days ago

              Hahahaha.

              We invaded it during the Spanish-American war to “liberate” Cuba (remove competing colonial power from our neighborhood) and set up a permanent Naval base there “for their protection.” We then pushed them into an infinite contract for two thousand dollars a year. That price has since gone up: as of 1974 we have been giving then FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS PER YEAR, a pittance that the post-revolutionary government of Cuba refuses out of principle.

              It is stolen. Human Rights Violation Land isn’t the only purpose, it’s also to punish Cuba for ever daring to defy us.

              Fuck. This. Country.

              • barsoap@lemm.ee
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                4
                ·
                edit-2
                3 days ago

                Cuba btw refuses to cash the cheques the US sends them. In my head canon Fidel used each and every one going over his desk as a cigar lighter.

                Fun fact: It can be argued that the German Democratic Republic still lives on in the form of an Island gifted to them by Cuba. The island was not mentioned in the German unification treaty so the GDR still has territory, but Cuba argues that it was just a symbolic act, not actual gift, and the German foreign ministry concurs. But what about the foreign ministry of the GDR? They should at least be heard on this matter.

        • MehBlah@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          3 days ago

          It really is. The US took it a long time ago and now use it as a nearby place where it stores those its kidnapped without having to provide them with any legal counsel.