Half true. Number remains same. But conscripts were sent ahead of professionals as fodder to measure UA strength. Putin lied to them then and now
Submitted 3 years ago by iamtanmay@wolfballs.com to freeforum@wolfballs.com
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Monarque@wolfballs.com 3 years ago
I believe there are even people in Western media suggesting that there will be major issues because the major turnover of conscripts is in late April.
But that did not make sense to me.
Putin is supposed to be an evil, callous dictator... Why would he have troubles forcibly extending their contracts as long as necessary if needed..?
Moreover, it seems odd to me that their system doesn't already have half-a-dozen contingencies set up to deal with such a scenario. You can call the Russians inept and unprepared as much as you want, but accusing them of this strikes me as absurd -- it's too basic.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 3 years ago
The conscript problem is in every country. If you remember, US had HUGE draft dodging. Who wants to die in a shithole ? Russian army has enough 'professionals', 2:1 ratio to involuntary volunteers.
But, Russia faces a threat much bigger than them. Not EU. Not US. The fucking Chinese.
Even now, majority of their army is on their ginormous border east, hoping their commie 'friends' don't decide they need some 'lebensraum'. Hence the need to force vodka loving братs to go 'camping'.
Poor bastards. Videos of them getting shredded with RPGs.... horrific.
Monarque@wolfballs.com 3 years ago
They are actually outnumbered on the battlefield and doing a good job in terms of fully occupying Mariupol and wrecking te Ukrainian military and territorial defense forces, which number something like 600,000.
It is actually not true that Russia is losing, IMO. Urban warfare is just slow.