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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
So what does full mobilization even mean for Russia? They can conscript whoever they want, but they have no equipment to give them and much of their veteran military leadership is dead so the training these raw recruits will get will be suspect at best. Hopefully this is the motivation regular Russians need to actually do something to finally topple Putin
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You are supposed to lose your most elite special forces and military equipment before declaring war! Obviously Putin is a grandmaster of planning and strategy!
Full mobilization at this point will be completely useless for Russia (if anything it'll just destabilize the country even more). The training infrastructure, standby equipment, logistics, and officer corps to handle a huge influx of conscripts from the Soviet era doesn't exist anymore and can't be rebuilt in half a year. Conscripts would also take half a year to train up to be combat effective.
Meanwhile Ukraine has another 250K troops already in training across multiple countries and equipped in the next 3-4 months and we've seen the quality of NATO training, tactics, and equipment, even if most is decades old. Its too late for Putin to turn this around in Ukraine. Just a matter of how deep a grave he wants to dig for himself now.