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Probably the side that is expanding conscription and routinely kidnapping men off the street and throwing them onto the front lines with weeks or less of traini
by pydry 2y ago
Probably the side that is expanding conscription and routinely kidnapping men off the street and throwing them onto the front lines with weeks or less of training.
Thats something that either happens routinely if youre desperate and short of men or doesnt - because it's deeply unpopular and you wouldnt do it if you didnt have to.
There are many signals which lack meaning (e.g. land taken) or can be fudged (e.g. casualties) but there are some signs of weakness like this one which can't be bullshitted or concealed.
- ceejayoz 2y ago> Probably the side that is expanding conscription and routinely kidnapping men off the street and throwing them onto the front lines with weeks or less of training. That'll be "both of them". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_mobilization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_mobilization https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/16/russia-mobilization-men/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/16/russia-mobil... https://www.newsweek.com/russia-troops-complain-lack-training-putin-ukraine-1786014 https://www.newsweek.com/russia-troops-complain-lack-trainin...
- pydry 2y agoOne Washington post article from 2022 that relies heavily on implication is about equivalent in evidence to one RT article from 2022 that does the same. If you follow the unfiltered war reports there are thousands of videos of Ukrainian kidnappings and zero Russian.
- ceejayoz 2y ago> If you follow the unfiltered war reports there are thousands of videos of Ukrainian kidnappings and zero Russian. The WaPo article has direct video evidence of at least some. I follow a wide variety of unfiltered news sources about the war, and "zero" is a bald lie. (Side note: callling conscription "kidnapping" is a little silly, too.)