If Russia is going to have radically less resources, this is one way to reduce the demands of the population? How do they simultaneously argue how awesome they

If Russia is going to have radically less resources, this is one way to reduce the demands of the population? How do they simultaneously argue how awesome they are doing at war and then a draft? There's no way anyone is convincing me nuclear isn't happening if things go even worse and maybe not even locally, he's got nothing to lose at this point, there's literally nothing the world can do about it because they aren't starting WW3