So, approximately 90 days worth of casualties.
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Vlad should call his MAGA supporters to join his cause and it will fulfill their need for violence.
Also they would take heavy casualties. Use them as pure cannon fodder.
The last round of conscription was meet with uncharacteristically loud pushback from the russian public so pushing ahead with even more is interesting. Is the kremlin that confident in the effect of it's propaganda? or is it just that desperate?
Politicians never fight their wars. Conscription is slavery.
The ruling class never fights their wars, either.
Russia isn't going to have any young men left.
Might finally play against some non russian cs2 mic spammers
This is America's future. Conscription is in Project 2025 and make no mistakes about it. The Christian Nationalist Death Cult would love to send you to the front.
Kapo Stephen "PeeWee Himmler" Miller has said that he wants to reduce the population of America from 335 million to 100 million people. An incompetently managed war that is wasteful of human lives is a perfect way to accomplish much of his objective.
Nah I'm too trans to be let in even as a conscript. They would rather just kill me domestically 🎉
Nah, they'll just stick you right on the front line to catch bullets.
The Christian Nationalist Death Cult would love to send you to the front.
To fight for Russia against Ukraine or Israel against Iran. Maybe if they're in a good mood, you'll be able to choose which genocide you participate in.
How many will be oligarchs sons?
Or even any from large cities?
Are they going to be equipped like the Russian soldiers in late WWII? One soldier gets a rifle, the other gets five bullets, and both get helmets the thickness of tin cans.
Russian soldiers in late WW2 were typically very well equipped, as were most soldiers by that stage in the war (even German soldiers were pretty decently equipped late war, though mostly due to having almost no soldiers left to equip).
Late summer 1941 and even at points during Stalingrad, sure there were definitely times when soviet soldiers were being thrown into battle massively underequipped, but this was the exception rather than the rule.
By 1944 (even by 1943) the Red Army was more mechanised than the Wehrmacht and was better at Blitzkrieg than the Wehr ever were.
That is ww1. Not world war 2. The whole 'wait for your comrade to die and take his weapons' did not happen during ww2. It did happen in ww1.
Where's Trump and his "young, brave men"? You know, that speech. The one aimed at Zelensky stating he should just stop the war and stop being desperate by conscripting more people for the defense effort?
Eh, must have left it in the same place he left the "Zelensky is a dictator" comment after he was asked if Putin was also a dictator.
Clearly showing what he really thinks of Trump's bullshit "peace" plan.
Rest in peace you poor bastards. Forced to fight a rich mans war... for nothing.
Yep so many will due horribly because of their awful dictator
Ukraine is Russia’s Vietnam.
or Russia's Afghanistan
Afghanistan is everyone’s Afghanistan 😂
As we all know, repeatedly drafting several divisions worth of men is a sign you're winning the war...
Territorially? Yes, Russia is winning. But politically, economically and socially? Russia already lost. The deaths of thousands of soldiers in the face of Russia's demographic crisis will result fewer labour force, which means lower tax revenue. The Russian economy is in war footing and this is already causing inflation because of heightened government expenditure, and businesses struggling to pay the ever increasing wage demands of civilians at home, who replaced the jobs that would have been filled instead by soldiers from the front. With secondary sanctions, even Chinese banks are reluctant to lend to Russia. The future generations of Russians will be paying for the economic and social consequences of the war in Ukraine. In essence, Russia may be winning territorially, but it will be a Pyrrhic victory with generational consequences.
They still only have 20 percent of the country. After years. At this rate they will run out of people before Ukraine runs out of territory.
Oh, look. Russian "brain drain" heading to Russias southern borders.
More like blood drain, their brains are probably in atrophy.
Most of the brains already left for other countries
more fertilizer for the ukrainian soil
And it’s 1 2 3 what are we fighting for don't ask me I don’t give a damn next stop is Zaporizhzhia
That’s a lot of meat for the grinder