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  c.a.m.p.e.r.
context: When I was in US grade school and high school,  they taught us that everyone was so angry and passionate before the Civil War that they immediately chose a side to fight on. 
  Then as an adult, I read "Battle Cry of Freedom" and it said hundreds to thousands of young men wanted nothing to do with it and were hiding out in hills and forests. >
  
  See “New York Draft Riots” >
  
  I mean, that was basically a race riot though… not quite the same >
  
  In that they blamed black people as the cause of their being drafted and so they killed them, sure.
  That's a bit like calling Krystalnacht a race riot.
  They were pretty one-sided "riots". >
  
  A race riot is by definition “a riot caused by racial dissensions or hatreds”… 
  Doesn’t matter if they’re onesided. 
  And no, it’s nothing like calling Krystalnacht one, that was a pogrom, an inherently organized governmental action. 
  A riot by contrast is unorganized, often relatively spontaneous, often escalating to violence like the draft riots. >
  
  Definately. The nail sticking up gets hammered.
  Internet connection, job, wife visiting to take him food. Not that hard to find him if they want to make a example of him. >
  
  Yea but I’m sure he is super low priority. Someone that eager to not fight and willing to go that far is someone who would surrender. >
  
  Indeed. They go for the low hanging fruits first.
  However, in rural places in Siberia they've been raiding locations in forests. Many people there have shacks, hunting cabins. But it's a region specifics. >
  
  Anything beats being ran through a well funded meat grinder >
  
  Even a badly funded one? >
  
  A badly-funded meat grinder does not discriminate between surrendering and resisting meat. A well-funded meat grinder ignores the surrendering meat.
  A badly-funded meat grinder will be far worse than a well-funded one. >
  
  
  Kalinin's life in the forest has brought him a certain level of popularity online, with 17,000 people following his near-daily updates on Telegram. He posts videos and photos of his surroundings, his daily routine, and of how his camp is organised.
  He still works eight hours a day in the same job
  
  I think this guy needs some lessons in what off-grid means. If anyone actually wanted to find him, they will. >
  
  Yep, that just a ton of evidence of attempted desertion, while in a country that barely even cares about evidence in the first place.  I give him a month, tops, before he's at gunpoint in one way or another.
  Idiot.
  I mean, even talking to the BBC would be a risk but I think I'd trust that they'd not give away where and who I was if I asked.  But posting online?  Just stfu and live out in the wilderness until it all goes quiet again, and maybe even some time after that.  Hell, I'd be wearing of *checking* the news in  his position and would most likely do so by a radio or SDR or similar rather than keeping a mobile phone anywhere near me. >
  
  Poor guy.  I hope he and others like him make it through this disaster. >
  
  The leaked phone calls from soldiers in the Russian army are pretty insane. They seem to understand some of what's going on and that they are being used as cannon fodder. >
  
  Something unfortunately not without prescient in Russia history.  God bless and protect every Russian with a conscience who simply does not want to die in someone else's war. >
  
  Canada just granted asylum to a guy that was here when his number got called up. >
  
  Ahh the prequal to s.t.a.l.k.e.r.