Putin can call up all the troops he wants, but Russia can’t train or support them

This sentence from the article below really stood out. Talking about the Russian conscripts Putin just called up. They are going to get slaughtered.

“I think that people definitely do not want to go to a war that they do not understand. … People would be taken to jail if they were to call Russia’s war in Ukraine a war, and now suddenly they have to go in and fight it unprepared, without weapons, without body armor, without helmets”


Putin can call up all the troops he wants, but Russia can’t train or support them

Analysis by Brad Lendon, CNN
Updated 1:15 AM EDT, Thu September 22, 2022

Vladimir Putin can call up all the troops he wants, but Russia has no way of getting those new troops the training and weapons they need to fight in Ukraine any time soon.

With his invasion of Ukraine faltering badly, the Russian President on Wednesday announced the immediate “partial mobilization” of Russian citizens. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Russian television that the country will call up 300,000 reservists.

If they end up facing Ukrainian guns on the front lines, they are likely to become the newest casualties in the invasion Putin started more than seven months ago and that has seen the Russian military fail at almost every aspect of modern war.

“The Russian military is not currently equipped to rapidly and effectively deploy 300,000 reservists,” said Alex Lord, Europe and Eurasia specialist at the Sibylline strategic analysis firm in London.

“Russia is already struggling to effectively equip its professional forces in Ukraine, following significant equipment losses during the war,” Lord said.

The recent Ukrainian offensive, which has seen Kyiv recapture thousands of square meters of territory, has taken a significant toll.

The Institute for the Study of War earlier this week said analysis from Western experts and Ukrainian intelligence found Russia had lost 50% to 90% of its strength in some units due to that offensive, and vast amounts of armor.

And that comes on top of staggering equipment losses over the course of the war.

The open source intelligence website Oryx, using only losses confirmed by photographic or video evidence, has found Russian forces have lost more than 6,300 vehicles, including 1,168 tanks, since the fighting began.

“In practice, they don’t have enough modern equipment … for that many new troops,” said Jakub Janovsky, a military analyst who contributes to the Oryx blog.

JT Crump, CEO of Sibylline and a veteran of 20 years in the British military, said Russia is beginning to suffer ammunition shortages in some calibers and is looking for sources of key components so it can repair or build replacements for weapons lost on the battlefield.

It’s not just tanks and armored personnel carriers that have been lost.

In many cases, Russian troops haven’t had the basics in Ukraine, including a clear definition of what they are risking their lives for.

Despite Wednesday’s mobilization order, Putin is still calling Ukraine a “special military operation,” not a war.

Ukrainian soldiers know they are fighting for their homeland. Many Russian soldiers have no idea why they are in Ukraine.

Russia can call up all the troops it wants, but it can't train or support them | CNN

 

Communists/Socialists don't ever seem to think through the consequences of their actions or see how foolhardy their plans are. Putin, a Communist/Socialist to the core, is a perfect example it seems.

 

On paper, Russia is a federal democratic state. In practice, however, many regard it as a dictatorship built around one man, President Vladimir Putin, who has been the leader of the Russian Federation since the year 2000. Russia has all the working parts of a democratic state, but since Putin took power, experts believe these working parts have been made to serve him and those close to him. Today, many believe that Putin now controls all levers of power in the country. Funny, communism/socialism aren't mentioned.

Kind of sounds like a MAGA wet dream. ​

 

I didn't say anything about RUSSIA being a Communist/Socialist state, moron. I said that Putin is a Communist/Socialist to the core.

Here. Educate yourself:

https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/putin-the-marxist-leninist

 

authoritarian autocracy, like the maggot's leader's wet dream.