Russia and Ukraine flashpoint

[Bofferbrauer2]

Zkuq said:

shavenferret said:

A quick little article on Russia’s mobilization plans for this year and next:


https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-reveals-new-russian-mobilization-claims/

Russia is going to mobilize 300k troops this year, and another 300k next year. Wow, that’s quite a large number.

Almost certainly wishful thinking, but I'm really hoping Putin pulls off a repeat of the WWI outcome in Russia.

Well, considering their current loss rate of over 1000 soldiers per day, mobilizing 300k wouldn't even be enough to cover the losses of a year.

Also, the public is turning more and more against Putin, who promised that ordinary Russians wouldn't be affected by the Invasion Special Military Operation. But now with daily drone strikes on the Russian energy infrastructure and Zelensky blowing a raspberry, erm, blowing up Wildberry's, now pretty much every single Russian is affected by it in some way or another unless maybe they're living in the sparsely populated far east of Russia. If a mobilization doesn't provide immediate results, it might be the end of the presidency for Putin, and he won't be able to call another round of mobilization.

And he should then better keep away from any open windows...

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