My concern is that The Russians might be able to afford to continue to "fight dumb and get wrecked" and still win. It's not just me.
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/02/11596...rainian-troops
The author of the piece spoke to a Ukrainian sniper named Andriy. Here's what Andriy has to say about Russia's raw conscript soldiers:
"'The Russian mobilizational reserve is pretty much infinite', says Andriy, 'which means that they have the luxury to make mistakes. They can lose a brigade or they can lose a platoon, and some of those people are going to survive and they can share experience with the new conscripts.'"
He's got a point. Regarding his own [Ukrainian military], Andriy says,
"'Most of the people that were ready to take guns and fight, they came in the first two months and those people care coming to an end.' He means that they are mostly dead. He says the quality of the new soldiers is much lower. 'Some of them, they don't know how to hold a rifle.'"
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