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They're already at sending reservists, who get around 3 days of training. Their front-line tank crews get exactly one practice shell per crew member, each year.
by joecot 4y ago
They're already at sending reservists, who get around 3 days of training. Their front-line tank crews get exactly one practice shell per crew member, each year. Putin is going to run through all their reservists, and then start sending every Russian man who can physically hold a gun into the meat grinder. It only ends when someone in his government finally takes him out, or Ukrainians march on Moscow itself. How many Putin allies can fall down stairs or have strange accidents in 2 months time?
- that_guy_iain 4y agoPutin is already emptying the prisons. Russia has used this tactic before with success. They used to send wave upon wave towards the Germans. Your choice was get shot by Russians or maybe get shot by Germans. Turns people choose to try and kill the Germans first.
- ZanyProgrammer 4y agoSlightly different circumstances back then.
- that_guy_iain 4y agoThey were fighting for a side you liked? As far as I know, they were fighting a rather well trained army which had better training and weapons than they did. It's realistically possible that they could just win the war just by sending so many people that Ukraine runs out of people to fight back even if they were killing multiple Russians per Ukrainian that died. It's like everyone forgot the reason Russia were feared wasn't that they were a super power, had an amazing military. It was the fact, they don't care how many Russians die to win and they are brutal.
- avisser 4y ago> They were fighting for a side you liked? No, if we're talking about Germans attacking during a world war, it was an existential threat to Russia. The same cannot be said of Ukraine.
- exar0815 4y agoThere is one marked difference - the waves of russian peasants were armed and supplied by the industrial might of the United States of America. Now, they are armed and supplied by a nation with the industrial output smaller than most European second-tier states.
- that_guy_iain 4y agoJust wait for China to start arming them. The industrial powerhouse of today's world. And that is realistically a possibility.
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoChina is patient and calculating, I dont see why they would back a region rival/frienemy that blundered in a stupid war they are currently loosing.
- that_guy_iain 4y agoYou mean continue to back them. They're currently backing them. I believe they're continued to show their support today. Seems there is something there you don't see. China is making serious overtures about invading Tawain. It's well known they want to take Tawain "back". Letting them US and other countries waste their weapons on killing Russians is benefical to them. It also creates an overall unstable geopolitical envoirnment which they can take advantage of. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoI don't believe China has spent a single penny in 'backing' Russia, none of their people were hurt, no company risked sanctions.
- that_guy_iain 4y agoThey’ve been buying fossil fuels that they didn’t really need. And China can’t really be sanctioned. The US had a trade war with them and lost because the US needs them more than they need the US.
- pixodaros 4y agoRussia in WW I and WW II were before the demographic transition from high fertility, high mortality to low fertility, low mortality, so the Czar or the Party could throw away the lives of millions of farmers' sons. Russia today is after the demographic transition, so there is a shortage of young people and a surplus of elders. Their fertility rate is well under replacement.