I think it's evil, diabolical, and genius if his actual intent was ethnic cleansing. The world has been sitting back wondering why Russia would attack Ukraine? They continued o wonder why the Russian military performed so poorly? The wondered where the elite troops and weapons were? They wondered why the Russians ran into logistics challenges when this is their strength? If the intent was to go in, have appearances to perform poorly and look like they are losing, then use it as a reason to enable conscription and draw from the very population you wanted to eliminate, that is just brilliant. One a level of evil like the world has not seen in almost 90 years, but absolute brilliant. The world will be focused on the Ukrainian war and not think twice about the decimation happening to the populations Putin wants to cull from the herd. It would have been like the Germans engaging the Russians first in WWII, but conscripting every Jew and sending them to the eastern front as an act of defense, only allowing them to get slaughtered. Eliminating every able bodied man from these marginalized groups is like a new Passover, and Putin is the angel of death.
Lets not go too far, Russians are terrible at logistics. It was widely called before the war started. They are also awful at complex strategy due to their tight command and control style. Kill the leader the troops don’t know what to do.
Ukraine everyone is a leader and they move more professionally. Russia basically expected the Ukrainians to roll over and they didn’t.
Its less diabolical. Putin is losing, and he has a group he can shred more than others. Still evil absolutely, but he isn’t the genius some thought he was. Just another arrogant ahole.
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I think it's evil, diabolical, and genius if his actual intent was ethnic cleansing. The world has been sitting back wondering why Russia would attack Ukraine? They continued o wonder why the Russian military performed so poorly? The wondered where the elite troops and weapons were? They wondered why the Russians ran into logistics challenges when this is their strength? If the intent was to go in, have appearances to perform poorly and look like they are losing, then use it as a reason to enable conscription and draw from the very population you wanted to eliminate, that is just brilliant. One a level of evil like the world has not seen in almost 90 years, but absolute brilliant. The world will be focused on the Ukrainian war and not think twice about the decimation happening to the populations Putin wants to cull from the herd. It would have been like the Germans engaging the Russians first in WWII, but conscripting every Jew and sending them to the eastern front as an act of defense, only allowing them to get slaughtered. Eliminating every able bodied man from these marginalized groups is like a new Passover, and Putin is the angel of death.
Didn’t you make fun of the Trump is a savant argument.
Putin is expending the least political capital he can to try to save face. He is betting on a cold winter to bring the EU into line. That’s about it.
If he murdered is own population the sanctions would be far less. People will freeze to stop Russia from invading Europe. People won’t pay marginally more for disposable garbage to save Ughars.
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I think it's evil, diabolical, and genius if his actual intent was ethnic cleansing. The world has been sitting back wondering why Russia would attack Ukraine? They continued o wonder why the Russian military performed so poorly? The wondered where the elite troops and weapons were? They wondered why the Russians ran into logistics challenges when this is their strength? If the intent was to go in, have appearances to perform poorly and look like they are losing, then use it as a reason to enable conscription and draw from the very population you wanted to eliminate, that is just brilliant. One a level of evil like the world has not seen in almost 90 years, but absolute brilliant. The world will be focused on the Ukrainian war and not think twice about the decimation happening to the populations Putin wants to cull from the herd. It would have been like the Germans engaging the Russians first in WWII, but conscripting every Jew and sending them to the eastern front as an act of defense, only allowing them to get slaughtered. Eliminating every able bodied man from these marginalized groups is like a new Passover, and Putin is the angel of death.
No, like dictators Putin has to be seen to win to maintain his power, nor does he particularly want his ethnic minorities dead, he wants them compliant which getting his arse kicked by Ukraine doesnt achieve, no this is just a monumental cluster **** on Putins part, he just didnt realise how badly degraded and badly led his army is
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Didn’t you make fun of the Trump is a savant argument.
Yes, because Trump is an idiot. Putin is and always has been a conniving little #### who is unafraid to do the unimaginable. Comparing Trump and Putin is dumb. When Trump's political enemies start falling out of windows or die from contact poisoning or radiological attacks, then we can maybe suggest they are on the same level. Trump can't even stack a court to his advantage.
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Yes, because Trump is an idiot. Putin is and always has been a conniving little #### who is unafraid to do the unimaginable. Comparing Trump and Putin is dumb. When Trump's political enemies start falling out of windows or die from contact poisoning or radiological attacks, then we can maybe suggest they are on the same level. Trump can't even stack a court to his advantage.
The fact that there was so many indicators that Trump may have actually been under Putin's thumb tells you everything you need to know about how the two fall on the relative intelligence & power spectrum.
Putin is really good at power games. Like, super good. Considering the circumstances his grip on power is remarkable. But that's basically all he's good at.
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Yes, because Trump is an idiot. Putin is and always has been a conniving little #### who is unafraid to do the unimaginable. Comparing Trump and Putin is dumb. When Trump's political enemies start falling out of windows or die from contact poisoning or radiological attacks, then we can maybe suggest they are on the same level. Trump can't even stack a court to his advantage.
You didn’t address the remainder of the list of the far more likely reason the mobilization is occurring the way it is.
This basically confirms they plan to mobilize around 1M.
Equipping that number of men and not treating them like cannon fodder is another matter entirely.
Haven't we been told that the USSR and Russia have been making enough munitions to wage a war that lasts 1,000 years?
I would imagine each man would at least get an AK-47 and basically unlimited ammo. 50,000 men with Kalashnikovs can be very dangerous if their commanders don't care about casualty rates - which they don't. Modern day Zhukov doctrine: throw as many warm bodies at an enemy as possible, with our without guns.
Body armor, NVGs, helmets, comms, etc, probably not exactly available. And the conscripts might have to walk from Moscow to the front lines due to lack of vehicles.
Haven't we been told that the USSR and Russia have been making enough munitions to wage a war that lasts 1,000 years?
I would imagine each man would at least get an AK-47 and basically unlimited ammo. 50,000 men with Kalashnikovs can be very dangerous if their commanders don't care about casualty rates - which they don't. Modern day Zhukov doctrine: throw as many warm bodies at an enemy as possible, with our without guns.
Body armor, NVGs, helmets, comms, etc, probably not exactly available. And the conscripts might have to walk from Moscow to the front lines due to lack of vehicles.
The Ukrainians will enjoy the target practice.
I reckon this is a pretty good summation of what they will be getting
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My wife's friend at work is from St. Petersburg and said she personally knows 5 people in that city who got selected, including 2 of her family members.
#### is getting real for them.
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I can't imagine logistics are easy for this kind of mobilization. Presumably the plan is to throw as much meat as possible as quickly as possible, so they don't have to worry about pesky things like barracks and food.
How long until their position on the war changes? Basic psychology suggests they won't change their opinion on Ukraine and Ukrainians, but there could be some reassessment of the necessity of the war
