Daddy & Vance get upset at the modern Christ for not bending the knee and doing whatever they want

I mean, we already made all those weapons we sent for the purpose of killing russians anyway right? they were just gonna mostly rust out/expire waiting, so having the ukkies use'em while doing all the dying was a still pretty good deal

So more ziggers are lining up for the meat grinders, along with North Koreans and Chico?

Sounds like an absolute win.

Brother, they're sending penal conscripts.

Sure, they have a Ready Reserve—so does nearly every country on the planet. Remember when people in the U.S. Ready Reserve got called up to invade Iraq? They weren't happy about it, and that's in a country where military service is generally respected. At least those were trained military who had already served. Russia's "Ready Reserve" isn't the same. These aren't seasoned veterans; they're just people who showed up, got screened, and were thrown into the system.

If Russia starts calling up this group—many of whom come from the higher classes—they're going to run into serious problems. These individuals aren't all well-trained, properly equipped, or organized into a cohesive fighting force. Having convicts on the front lines suggests they're already scraping the bottom of the barrel before hitting a level of conscription that could trigger significant social unrest.

In some areas, petitions from conscripts' families are flooding in, begging for their children to be withdrawn from the front lines—places like Kursk. The reality is that most Russians don't give a frick about Ukraine and don't want to die there.

The unexpected peril for conscripts in Kursk has set off a pitched battle online between proponents of the war, who accuse parents of mollycoddling their sons, and parents distressed that a longstanding tradition has been broken.

One senior Russian special forces commander recorded a screed admonishing parents to stop "sobbing" about their sons having to fight

>Do not cry, your son vill die for ze globohomo. And that's a good thing

Russia operates more like a third-world country or a banana republic in this sense. Military service is prole-coded, something for the poors. In the U.S., being in the military—especially during wartime—can be an honorable career move, even for the upwardly mobile. Russia doesn't have that dynamic. If they start drafting the middle class, they're going to face a lot more pushback. And at some point, the choice between dying at the hands of Putin's goons versus dying in Ukraine via drone strike isn't going to be much of a deterrent anymore.

Holy shit BROS a hecking ARMY IN RESERVE!! This fricking REGARD thinks an army corps equal an ARMY LMFAO. A ragtag group training in Belarus is not a fricking army you delusional nonce. I can't believe people still think Russia is holding back when they are using fricking donkeys and camels now for logistics.

that was never my argument you r-slur. the point is that they obviously don't have manpower on their own.