Russia's army is now 15% bigger than when it invaded Ukraine, says US general
Russia's army is now 15% bigger than when it invaded Ukraine, says US general
"Russia is on track to command the largest military on the continent," US Army Gen. Christopher Cavoli told Congress.
- Russia's army has grown bigger despite sustaining losses when it invaded Ukraine, says a US general.
- US Army Gen. Christopher Cavoli said the Russian army "is actually now larger — by 15 percent."
- "Russia is on track to command the largest military on the continent," Cavoli said.
Yes, that's what happens when you have forced conscription.
Large doesn't mean effective.
Just an FYI, both sides including conscripted soldiers. Russia is 18 - 30, Ukraine is now 25 - 60.
My armchair General theory is that conscription works better for defensive armies than offensive. Taking a random 18 year old and forcing them to go fight in a different country only leads to questions of why they are there. Convincing that same 18 year old that they should sign up to go fight in a different country out of misplaced patriotism works a lot better. Ironically, that means giving people the choice tends to support imperialism more than forcing the issue.
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Exactly what the headline is missing. Russia has a larger army and is still ineffective.
This isn't at all surprising, in fact a lot of people were trying to point out at the outset that the longer the war dragged on, the larger and more sustained Russia's military would grow.
Ukraine simply doesn't have the population to keep up indefinitely.
Define army. Do kids without training or equipment count?
To Putin? Absolutely.
This has been their MO since before the soviets. When they failed the lightning raid on Kyiv, they went back to their old tactics- relying on attrition and simply assuming tbhat any losses can be replaced - which is far from true if Ukraine.
The IDF seems to think so.
Judging by their actions the IDF's definition of enemy combatant seems to extend all the way down to fetuses still in their mother's womb, so their actions are not really a reasonable metric for comparison with normal soldiers in a normal war.
Wars driven mainly by massive racism and with a background of in the aggressor country for over half a century the target etnicity having been relentlessly protrayed as less than human ("human animals" as Israeli members of government openly said) are conducted outside any and all rationality, much less humanity, whilst wars driven mainly by greed still have some rationality, if only because even any last minute attempts in such wars by the leaders of the aggressor nation to turn their soldiers into monsters towards The Enemy to try and win, are nowhere as effective at creating monsters as conscripting as soldiers young adults who have grown up in an environment swamped with extremelly racist views of the etnicity of The Enemy.
For all the evil the Russians have done in Ukraine, their actions seem to be mainly driven by greed and a general disregard for human life, whilst Israeli soldiers' actions seem to be mainly driven by extreme racist hate.
This is good news, as it will accelerate russia’s demographic collapse.
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"Based on my experience in 37-plus years in the U.S. military, if one side can shoot and the other side can't shoot back, the side that can't shoot back loses," he continued.
This guy generals.
Obviously more US aid is crucial, and it's recent absence is clearly having negative consequences in Ukraine.
If there is a silver lining, it's that all of Europe is finally getting it's military shit sorted out.
Russia is settling into it's war economy and the rest of Europe has decades of dust to shake off it's military capabilities.
Obviously NATO and individual European counties aren't fully engaged in war like Ukraine is, but the resources consumed by war is proving just how under prepared Europe is for a long campaign.
Putin will need to keep his new big military busy or they might turn on him, and he knows it.
Yes if you include all the mercanarys and the new recruits and those civilians being drafted also the region in Ukraine is known for guerilla warfare so a long term un welcome occupation won't last long