A pragmatic compromise on the unpopular question of mobilization? A signal of the SMO transitioning to full-blown war? An indicator of Russia’s desparation, or of an effort to finally end the conflict as quickly and efficiently as possible?
Like to hear your thoughts comrades, especially comrades from Russia.
From my limited understanding, this does at least confirm that Russia was in fact struggling in Ukraine and that without further measures like mobilization Russia would probably lose the war.
I am actually starting to get really worried that the US knew what it was doing after all when it provoked this conflict. They trained Ukraine for years and if Ukraine manages to win against Russia with NATO training and NATO weapons this will probably open the door for Russia’s dissolution into smaller nation states as Brzezinski described in his book ‘The Grand Chessboard’. This in turn would be a huge blow to China as the resources and nuclear weapons arsenal of Russia would greatly compliment China’s weaknesses.
Russia recently dropped figures on casualties on both sides: 6,000 Russian soldiers killed and 60,000 Ukrainians with ~50,000 wounded. Ukrainian forces stood at ~200,000, but now “hundreds of thousands more” have been enlisted. “To the last Ukrainian” is right… I want this all to end but I hope that Russia can win this war of attrition and come out properly un-balkanized. Europeans are engaging in an actually true example of “Asiatic horde” myth by throwing away the lives of hundreds of thousands of young men and billions upon billions of dollars and euros all in their pursuit of conquest. It’s absolutely deranged, and I’m worried, too. Hopefully our worries are unfounded.
Russia reveals military losses in Ukraine https://www.rt.com/russia/563213-ukraine-donbass-military-losses/
I also hope that the emergency measures stop here. The “limited mobilization” is already pretty wide in scope, but I don’t even want to imagine full-scale mandatory recruitment for military-aged people.
The current UA is not the same UA in February. This group has legitimate NATO volunteers numbering in the thousands, and intel is now fully under NATO command. Russia is fighting NATO now.