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Putin’s slap in the face of his people is the cry of the child from Belgorod who screams in despair, in a video, as his father gets on the bus. He goes to the war in Ukraine, a war he didn’t want to fight. The Kremlin has called it “partial mobilization”, up to “three hundred thousand reservists” who can be called up on the basis of war needs, but this too sounds like a bluff.