I wanted to ask you something else unrelated but I didn't want to post it on your other post - there are a lot of reports coming out that Finland is seeing a huge influx of people fleeing Russia after the draft started, have you witnessed this or is it mostly just the media being full of shit?
It has gone up supposedly. From a day or two ago:
https://yle.fi/news/3-12637848
The challenge is an interesting one - because if they are fleeing Russia because they don't want to fight, it likely means they don't support the war in Ukraine and not letting them flee means they will be forced to fight - isn't that counter productive?
I was thinking the same thing - the worse kind of soldier is a soldier that is signed up involuntarily because you're shooting yourself in the foot if that person isn't doing it for the right reasons, so it can become a double edged sword and could even lead to sabotage...very weird situation and I'm not really keen to see how it's going to pan out.
You guys please stay safe there.
There is not much we can do in terms of staying safe -but overall, no one seems to spend too much time worrying about it considering the proximity.
It boggles my mind how people have almost become conditioned to be lackadaisical about it, it's actually weird. I can remember mentioning two years ago that I could see war breaking out in the next few years and everyone thought I was a loon. Well, yet again it seems my intuition was correct.
I know that there's not much that you can do other than prepare - that's all that we can do really. At least we aren't part of the group that are in denial about it, it's going to be more difficult for them when they finally realise what's going on.
Look after yourself and your family Taraz, I know it's a tough situation all round and you're doing the best you can.