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Originally Posted by calculoso
I think it is too early to make such lofty proclamations. It has gone “well” so far, but unless Russia only has 200k troops in total (the number that was lined up around Ukraine before this started), we haven’t seen anywhere close to their entire arsenal.
I sure hope I’m wrong and this is their best… but I just can’t believe it is true.
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The number of actual troops they have may not be as important as the number of troops they can sustain while being deployed to a war zone. If their logistics can only support a certain number of soldiers in the battlefield, the total size of their force matters less.
It certainly helps that they can keep throwing meat into the field to replace bodies I guess, but as sanctions continue to grip them, I have to wonder how small that will shrink the number of deployable personnel.