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Originally Posted by blankall
Regardless of how popular a war is, how many people are going to volunteer to risk being killed or seriously maimed in the modern world. Even if many people in Russia feel the war is justified, how many want to die via American drone.
In a modern world, where people have a lot more freedoms (even in Russia, everything is after all relative) and access to education, I just don't see a large desire for huge amounts of people to enlist, generally, and not just in Russia. How many accountants, computer programmers, etc... are just going to up and join the Russian military. Russia has the second highest level of tertiary education in the world. I just don't see a situation where people living in a relatively modern country are signing up on mass to fight in a war, unless it's their country being invaded.
Honestly, that's probably a good thing. It stops modern countries from raising huge armies and then invading their neighbours.
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A lot of people in Russia outside the big cities are very poor and from what I understand they are being offered a lot of money. If they believe the propaganda about the mighty Russian Army I can see people taking the money when they have next to nothing. You're right that it probably won't entice the white collar workers though.