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Old 09-15-2022, 12:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Heffe View Post
As for the draft or calling up reserves, it's clear that his equipment stocks are on the path to depletion, which means any reserves would likely just be light infantry. Does he risk sacrificing a ton of Russians into a meat grinder and risk losing what popular support he has in Russia? I don't think he'd want to go that route either, but again, who knows?
Russian leaders sending vast waves of young Russian soldiers to their doom is standard operating procedure though, isn't it? At least for the last couple of centuries.
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