Vladimir Putin announces partial military mobilisation to fight Ukraine war

[mmKay]

 

[Devin]

@KH2 if he announced conscripting 300k, the real number is 600k. But that just means more untrained Russian casualties

[spiritual memes]

Probably not going to end well...

[StarStruck]

Those numbers are too big to be defensive. He is hell-bent on making Ukraine his death sentence.   

[Fleetinglife]

Looks like they are hoping to pull off some sort of a Brussilov-like major counter-offensive using maybe that military-historical example as an ideological or military propagandistic tool to recruit more troops, and lift their overall combat morale and spirits up. Even if it was very successful at first during World War One with the military and territorial gains it accomplished against Austria-Hungary and the German Empire on the Eastern WWI Front in a short period of time, we know what the high and massive cost of that was in the big casualty rates and overall suffering it caused amongst the ordinary troops, and what it laid the seeds for in the parts of the dissenting troops and the solid ideological foundations as narrative proving point for all the other subsequent incoming Russian revolutions just a couple of months afterward if history is to be trusted as having the tendency to truly repeat itself twice and as very unfortunate guide or signal of how this might end up going or resolving itself.

Edited September 21, 2022 by Fleetinglife