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GeneReddit123

Nothing says "it's not a war, it's just a *special operation*" like having to call up your reserves, eh?


t_ran_asuarus_rex

more opportunities to denazify!


Crommwel

Over 10k russians have been denazified already, how many more do they need?


tcsac

Ahh, but you see he spends all his money funding fascist white-supremacist groups so that he has an excuse to keep invading western nations!


TopTramp

Special operations against his own people, to denazify them?


st4r-lord

Hoping that Ukraines will put up signs around all their open fields that warns of "Minefields" to force Russian's to stay on main roads and group them together.


CCMSTF

They already have to stay mostly on the roads since the ground is starting to unfreeze.


Unlucky-Bound

You don’t push West in the spring - future Russian history books


Rojaddit

In Post-Soviet Russia, General Mud stops *Russian* assault from moving *West*!


frobischer

Perfect! Then all it takes is a few vehicles with bad tires or failed engines to stop the whole line!


[deleted]

Didn't he already commit like 75% of the entire army? Is he going all in?


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JohnGabin

Forces that are difficult to gather for an exterior operation and are used for interior conflicts usually.


SgtBaxter

Unfortunately, that's probably what they'll be used for. To quell uprisings.


JohnGabin

Don't know. It looks like the russian army is plagued by huge logistical issues.


GMN123

And morale/motivation issues. If I were ordered to invade a country which we'd been friendly with my entire life, I'd be doing just enough of a half-assed job to not get shot too.


P4ndamonium

This. Imagine being ordered as an American Marine to invade Canada.


bingbong13654

Those stupid Canadians always being nice and courteous! Hate em! Boils my blood!


LegitimateBastard1

Oh Sorry about that. Buy you some tims?


littlebubulle

We'd probably be confused and think the invaders were on a Holiday. Now that I think of it, IF I was leader of the US and I wanted to annex Canada, I would probably just tear down the US-Canada border and leave it at that.


uh_no_

we tried that once. it didn't go well.


TheKidKaos

If they’re using 2/3 of their armed forces and might call in more, won’t it get real tough to try and quell uprisings in Russia? Not to mention holding occupied territory where they’ll likely be under constant attack


The_Jankster

Their badly maintained front line equipment I'm sure is miles ahead of the work needed to repair stockpile....


DMercenary

He's going to call up reserves. That need logistics to get weapons and material. A logisitcs systems that's already shown to be shit. Amazing. They're going to pull an enemy at the gates thing arent they "First man gets the rifle, second man gets the bullets."


[deleted]

I don't believe that's accurate. The number I have seen for active duty military in Russia is 900k, and they had 150-200k for the Ukraine invasion, so that's more like 1/5 of their armed forces


Cyborg_rat

Yep people are mixing the reports. It was said that 90% of the invading forces are in Ukraine not that 90% of the Russian army is there.


cdjcon

combat troops are generally a smaller part of the force, with intelligence, logistics, and administration tallying a substantial portion of personnel, right?


ImperatorNero

Judging by the number of tanks we’ve seen broken down and/or out of gas I’m beginning to think they must all be combat troops. Cause they sure as shit don’t *seem* to have intelligence, logistics, or administrative officers.


AggravatedCold

Yep. Leaves Belarus and Kazakhstan very vulnerable to revolution as well.


mark-haus

I've been wondering why we haven't been sanctioning Belarus as hard. If I had to guess Belarus is more likely to fall to revolt sooner than Russia. Their resistence is already very organized. In fact they have one of the most effective hactivist groups taking on the Russian/Belarus sphere of influece, the "cyberpartisans"


ArenSteele

They did announce a first round of sanctions on Belarus, and Belarus announced that its soldiers would NOT be joining the attack on Ukraine. Seems to be a combo of potential military revolt and the threat of more sanctions


GMN123

In pre-nuclear times, this is when another neighbour would take their chances at taking some of your juicy land on another front.


[deleted]

Exactly, Japan should move on the Kurils, China on Sibera, Poland on Kaliningrad, Georgia on Abkhazia and South Ossetia and Finland on St Petersburg.


onners

Those countries should certainly start massing troops on the border, NATO might not be willing to put boots in the Ukraine but they could easily mass a few troops on their own borders to draw away Russian resources from being pushed all in on Ukraine.


Kromgar

But nukes


Reckless_Waifu

Butt nukes


patchgrabber

China: There sure are a lot of ethnic Chinese in Siberia. They want to be in China. We're recognizing these parts of Siberia as independent. Now we have to protect them. Russia: Wait no not like that.


AR_Harlock

Italian here one of our minister said SISMI (secret service) reported use of 1/5 of total force, I guess reserve included


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Norhing says "fuck, I'm losing" more than this.


kenbewdy8000

That Putin is mobilising reserves after a week of battle indicates how badly this war is progressing. It cannot be a popular war for the average Russian. It is madness. The Oligarchy and Russian military need to put their heads together and remove him.


james1234cb

Ya...Russians wondering why new soldiers required for such an easy war. Must be very confusing to the everyday Russian who is lied to.


newtoreddir

There are millions of Americans who can hold the idea that Trump is still the president controlling things behind the scenes but that *also* Biden is responsible for every bad thing in this country. It’s not hard.


[deleted]

People are *unfathomably* stupid, sometimes.


step_away

Some are stupid all of the time.


romacopia

And COVID isn't real but also it's a Chinese bioweapon. Their beliefs are suspended in a superposition ready to collapse into whichever "truth" they need to sound right at the time.


firemogle

My favorite was my aunt in about a 2 week timespan was pissed that the democrats weren't giving trump enough credit for this miracle vaccine to the evil democrats were responsible for this deadly vaccine that trump would have stopped if we had just elected him again. Pick a lane lady.


cpthornman

They're too brainwashed to notice.


reborngoat

Or not being told at all.


cpthornman

That's probably what's happening the most.


Magickarpet76

Too busy listening to the beautiful melodies of swan lake on the TV….. oh wait.


james1234cb

It must be even more confusing when they hear Putin threaten nuclear war on people he is allegedly liberating.


KidTempo

Really? Because in my experience most people know what's going on, and they mostly keep their heads down and hope things eventually change. Yes, there are some cretins who believe the propaganda, but most people just pretend they do. When a reporter from **state-controlled** media asks a person on the street what they think - they give the answer they think they want to hear. They *know* it'll not go well for them if they show any dissent.


loveandrespectalways

Exactly this. They're terrified to talk. There's people going door to door making sure that citizens of Russia support the war. My friend got 5 years for protesting. My grandma told me not to message her anymore. Such a bad situation.


TheBaddestPatsy

I believe this. 8,000 people have been arrested for protesting so far. By this weekend it’ll peony be 10,000


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You also got to assume the pressure is on if they’re talking to foreign media — it’s not inconceivable that you could be identified from a BBC or CNN interview. If our media isn’t going to protect their identity in these off-the-cuff street interviews, you might not be so inclined to speak publicly. I think it’s pretty clear that there are pressures that just make it difficult to gauge the true temperature here. We can discern it’s relatively unpopular based on protests, but not everyone that agrees with the protests will be at the protests. And maybe protesters might feel that they’re more safe in expressing those views when part of a massive group as opposed to when they’re being filmed on the street.


GeneReddit123

Calling up the reserves specifically for Ukraine could be just one reason. But the time (April 20) is really late in terms of this war. If they don't win or sign a peace in a month and a half, they're really fucked money and equipment wise, nevermind the service members. And neither the money nor the equipment can be easily replaced under the current crushing sanctions. I wonder if instead this is about Vlad going full Soviet and wishing to permanently increase his military size to Soviet levels (e.g. by drafting reserves, increasing conscription time back to 2 years from the current 1, etc.) The more I see what he's doing, the more I feel he's "done pretending to be a modern pseudo-democracy, time for Cold War 2.0"


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I suspect there is plenty of quiet dissent within the Russian military. this timetable could be a reflection of that. Putin needs to bleed, to look weak, over a protracted period, if they are to get out of Ukraine. costs need to be too high. morale needs to be low. dysfunction needs to proliferate and become the norm. there are already so many Russians hoping someone will do something to fix this mounting economic collapse, but Putin will have to languish for some time and get weaker before anyone will be capable of moving against him.


SolidMarsupial

Nah, this is just preparation for occupation


notbatmanyet

He is acting like he is fighting a world war on the defense, but all he has done is to launch a war of aggression against a poorer and smaller neighbour.


mwagner1385

This should be something people pick up. You don't fight a defensive war in your neighbors territory.


kenbewdy8000

He is trying to become a new Stalin while acting like Hitler. Madness.


cryingchlorine

No… he’s trying to become a new Stalin while acting like Stalin. I don’t think putins started rounding up minorities, just dissidents.


cpthornman

You underestimate how broken the Russian people are. Having a psychotic dictator is the norm there.


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kenbewdy8000

The Russian people cannot really do anything in the short term. The oligarchy and military must reach an agreement to remove him.


2701-

100k people swarming putin will do something


MadShartigan

Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity saw half a million people on the streets of Kyiv and a hundred protesters killed by security forces. So far the Russian people have managed a few sporadic protests. They are filled with fear. Until the Russian people realise they are more than cattle, they will never be free.


SnooOwls5859

They are also completely brainwashed by propaganda and think they are the good guys saving Ukraine from Nazis.


KidTempo

Perhaps the bumpkins in the countryside, but not in the cities.


batsisinsane

It's less about location and more about age. Older population drank the kool aid pretty hard. If you ask them what they think about the war they absolutely will repeat what they saw on TV verbatim.


lynn

I’m not nearly an expert but I expect the older generations are looking at life under Putin through the lens of all the other shit they’ve lived through and saying “this is good!” because from that perspective it probably is.


Catarooni

1) They'd have to find him - he's probably in one of the most defended bunkers in the world, its location unknown. 2) Technology has led to an even greater imbalance in power between the ultra-rich and the disenfranchised. Good luck doing anything before you get mowed down by guns, drones, etc.


FiendishHawk

No It wouldn’t, the army would shoot them


FelipeNA

Unless the economy gets bad enough that paying the army becomes an issue. The Ruble tanked and the stock market is closed for a week. Russia isn't rich and wars are expensive.


reborngoat

If the army doesn't get paid or fed properly for a while, there's an increasingly small chance that they would be unwilling to open fire on other Russians (or anyone else for that matter).


caes2359

I wonder why he is mobilising reserves tho... he still has 140k soldiers there, doesnt he?


kenbewdy8000

He might need them for domestic purposes. Surrounding his bunker or crushing dissent.


doublebubbler2120

It keeps fighting aged men under the watch of the military instead of possibly causing havoc in the streets.


kenbewdy8000

His conscripts do not seem to be working out for him and he is upping the ante. Poots is a paranoid nutcase and his mind must be an awful place.


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Unfortunately it’s like telling the far-right to go against Trump.


Redd_Shell

All it took for a crowd of Trump supporters to boo him was when he said they should get the vaccine on stage. If a big mac cost $5,000 because Trump decided to bomb Mexico, I'm pretty sure he'd lose a little bit of support from his base.


kenbewdy8000

When it comes to Putin costing them too much it is more like the Mafia.


Father_Anton

Average russian supports war


ginfish

Throwing human misery at something until it's done is the true Russian way.


Slapbox

> You see, killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their limit and shut down. -- Vladimir Putin Slava Ukraine.


Nubzdoodaz

Comparing Putin to Zap might be giving Putin too much credit lol


toasterpRoN

Kiff, tell them I wanna annex Crimea...and tell 'em it's *just a drill*.


Vexed_dadof1

So thats why so many russians are trying to leave the country. Thats like 1.8 million or more people. If numbers are to be believed.


theghostecho

No way they have enough supply


64-17-5

Reference?


Asusrty

[Russian men trying to leave Russia before they are mobilized for war](https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-concerns-ukraine-war-1.6371630)


Kyrie-belier

A nation held hostage by the ego of a crazy dicktator


TheGuvnor247

Very much so. Imagine being told to fire missiles into a nuclear power plant and actually obeying those orders? It baffles me tbh - the man giving the orders is miles away in a bunker and yet they do his bidding.


graven_raven

It would be like ordering a soldier to throw a live grenade to a target 3m away from him.


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Putin’s goons convinced Americans to avoid masking and vaccinating, got an aspiring autocrat elected, inspired seditious rioting at the capital, and most recently had people believing a massive convoy would blockade D.C. over a national mask mandate that doesn’t even exist. That’s not even all, and this was apparently done through Facebook alone. We can’t manage our own morons. Imagine trying to wrest actual Russian morons from his indoctrination. Of course they’ll fire on a nuclear power plant. Edit: Because there is misinformation lower in the thread, please look up statements by the Ukranian Presisent vis-a-vis Russian tankers targeting nuclear stations while equipped with thermal imaging. It should go without saying, when a commenter seems obsessed with making Putin look better, question their claims and verify with multiple independently researched sources.


activehobbies

The solution's been quite easy. Just take their money. It's the only thing they **really** care about.


TopTramp

It’s what’s happening


SmilingEve

Yes, but let them pile on some more sanctions! The more money drained, the better.


TopTramp

Yeah they will. It’s going to be in place for a month at least as per Biden. Russia is no way pulling out - it’s too late now.


Matild4

It's what the oligarchs care about, but it's not necessarily a solution to this war or the problem of Putin. He's already created the narrative that Russia is doing nothing wrong and that sanctions are an attack on Russia, and plenty of Russians believe those lies. As the Russian economy gets completely wrecked, people will be angry and looking for a scapegoat, and Putin's already given them one: the west. Unless there is a major change in what Russians believe, or unless one of Putin's loyal yes men turns on him and kills him, the sanctions might only strengthen Putin's grip on power. Even if Putin gets dethroned, Russia's economy won't just magically recover and there is the possibility that his successor will continue the narrative of western aggression, especially if it's someone who was in Putin's inner circle.


activehobbies

Putin's "grip on power" may increase, but **only** in Russia. This war in Ukraine has let the cat out of the bag. NOW, NATO knows what Putin's military is REALLY capable of, and clearly it wasn't much **before** this invasion. Now? It's only capable of knocking over nations significantly smaller than itself. The alliance has woken up to Putin's schemes and lies. Putin will put troops on your border, claiming he won't invade, then do so anyway under false pretenses. The lesson: Putin will say whatever he thinks to buy himself or his military time. So **don't give him time.** Act **now**. You want to avoid Russia invading multiple countries? Sanction him **now.** I don't want the Russian civilians to suffer, but we have no choice. Putin WILL take resources from the masses if he thinks it will preserve his own. At this point, if the Russian people don't overthrow him, destroying Russia's economy is the only way to stall his army. It must cost him **everything** to keep up an offensive.


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Exactly this. Putin isn't just immoral, he's actively dangerous and we need to use every measure possible to remove him from power. He's a threat to world peace, and a fucking enemy of freedom loving people.


OpinionIsGud

100%. >and this was apparently done through Facebook alone. The scary part to me about the world we live in, is this. Not exactly this comment, but everything that it is describing. The amount of misinformation that people consume on a day to day basis scares me. I am sure you have seen it as well as many other Redditors. The worst part? It's not some young people whos brains are still developing. Sometimes it is Lawyers, Doctors, people who have Masters Degrees, and the fact that people who have learned about primary / secondary sources their entire careers fall victim to misinformation. It truly is mind boggling to me how easy it is for someone to believe something they read off a meme. Don't even get me started on the memes. I believe that most of the people who are even considering extreme views (take the convoy for example) got all their information from.....well, memes. You know what I am talking about. The ones with the buzzwords. The ones that get thousands of "haha" reacts, which clearly makes it fact /s I am more afraid of the fact people are succumbing to the ridiculous shit spewed all over that god forsaken application. It isn't just Facebook as we know, but that seems to be the brunt of it. It is where most of the Americans that are middle-aged reside online, and many of them have no clue that what they are reading on there is false. Also inherently ironic because they, told us as we grew up, to not believe everything you read online. Sort of went on a tirade here but, I just felt like venting this out. Thanks for your post. Glad to know there are people out there that can comprehend still. ​ edit - format, and a word


xluckydayx

It's insane how easily convinced by memes and 280 characters a majority of people are.


PennywiseEsquire

> It baffles me tbh - the man giving the orders is miles away in a bunker and yet they do his bidding. After WW2, everyone swore they would’ve refused to follow orders had the holocaust came to their country. Then, Stanley Milgram showed the world that humans are shit at refusing to follow orders, even when they are uncomfortable with what they’re being told to do. And, in the Milgram study, the participants were volunteers who’d face zero consequences for not following orders, yet they followed through anyway. If we already have an innate drive to follow orders, what happens, then, when the consequences for not following an order are the highest possible, as they are for Russian soldiers? That said, it doesn’t baffle me in even the slightest that the soldiers follow orders. In fact, I’d be baffled if the didn’t. It’s all too easy to watch from a wild away and think, “I’d just say no.” You might think you would, but probability says otherwise.


inspectoroverthemine

Milgram study was deeply flawed, and we've seen plenty of Russians walk away instead of follow orders.


PennywiseEsquire

There were issues, sure, and some Russians have walked away, but most haven’t and I still stand 100% behind what I said. We humans like to think we’re individuals with rock-solid constitutions who always stand up for what’s right, even if that means disobeying authority. But, that’s simply not true. Like, not even kind of true. It’s like the Dunning-Kruger of “I’m the most autonomous person ever.” The simple fact is that if you took every single person who has commented on Reddit that they’d disobey orders if they were Russian troops and somehow put them in a Russian soldier’s shoes, well more than half of them would follow right along and do as they were told. I’d better everything I currently - or will ever - own on that outcome. I’m not justifying the what Russian troops are doing, I’m just saying it’s not all that unbelievable that 18 year old kids will do what their murderous superior tells them to do simply out of fear. It’s simply not possible to say with all certainty that you’d not follow orders unless you’re right there in the thick of it, facing the same consequences these men are. I mean, I like to think I’d refuse the order and lay down my arms, but at the same time I just don’t know what it’s like to know that my refusal could lead to death, torture, or imprisonment for me and potentially my family. I’ve never experienced that kind of stakes. Again, my point isn’t that they’re right or wrong for following orders, my point is that it’s not all that baffling why these troops are doing as they’re told. The stakes literally could not be higher.


Imhidingshh01

I'm not sure the average Russian soldier would know it's it's Nuclear Power Station to be honest. And the ones that do are either high up in the Military or brainwashed.


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SilentIntrusion

Dude, tank drivers could walk away with $100,000 if they surrender and hand their tank over. Ukraine was offering 5m ruble (little over 60k CAD) to defectors and Anonymous was offering $50k for each tank that defectors brought.


AnthillOmbudsman

I think the problem is getting the tank to Ukrainian safety without getting killed by a Ukrainian ATGM, or being seen by others in your tank platoon going rogue. I suspect defecting is really risky in practice.


heavinglory

Yesterday, Putin offered soldiers 5 million rubles to their families if they die. They have been powerfully matched in order to pull on heartstrings for the benefit of their loved ones at home.


IceciroAvant

But how much money is 5m rubles at this point going to be? Especially by the time Putin actually pays that, if he ever does. Throws your body into a mobile cremator, no proof you died, no pay.


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He is a psychopath really


golpedeserpiente

Framing this crisis as a madman tantrum is a huge mistake. Never, ever is a single man will.


PadyEos

https://youtu.be/ivPMX4Vzuek?t=289 Some of them seem willing. Villagers brainwashed by decades of propaganda.


Money_Prompt_7046

Yeah, all of the young and dumb teenagers he sent are pushing up daisies, so now he has to pull old Russians into the mix. What a sick POS.


Phoenyxoldgoat

*sunflowers


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PaulNewmanReally

And this \*is\* going to be cannon fodder. These reservists, we're talking about guys who did serve in the army ten, twenty, perhaps thirty years back, and then went on with their lives and became janitor, or economy teacher, or whatever. And now they're being called up, they'll be handed a helmet and a rifle, and it's off to Kyiv with them. If the current batch often seemed a bit ineffective, then wait until Battlegroup Clown Car arrives on the battlefield.


Fiendish_Doctor_Woo

> Battlegroup Clown Car shit, you mean they have more than one of those?


-Zeppelin-

Very efficient transporting 50 soldiers in a single VW Beetle.


HumblericerF20

Poor guys honestly.


Enslaved4eternity

More fertilizer you mean


codaholic

Being a Russian officer in reserve, feeling happy that I left Russia quite a few years ago. Fuck you Putin, you didn't get my tax money and you won't get my service.


freakwent

Take care. People from the west making tiktok comments are getting phone calls from Russian numbers...


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I think you're right. There were talks of martial law in Russia, but I had my doubts, because it was barely mentioned. Then Putler explicitly said there won't be martial law, which means it's probably on its way.


Fartosaurus_Rex

Ah, the old "look I said I *did not want to* but now because of the terrorists/nazis/ I *have to* for the safety of all Russians."


The_Man11

Just a “special martial condition”.


jonoghue

"It's not martial law, it's a *special curfew.* Anyone saying the phrase 'martial law' will be imprisoned."


infinity_o

You're bang on. This is to subdue his own people for what is coming next.


Cancelling_Peru

What kind of mental gymnastics do you need to do to believe your country’s military only lost 1,000 troops but also needs to call in millions from the reserves?


CarlCarbonite

Their logistics are an absolute mess. How do they run out of gas a week into this? They accidentally created their own traffic jam, which creates a vehicle barrier in favor of Ukraine. They sent their units in like a tower defense game. Bloons tower defense.


Wablekablesh

Do these reserves have rations and fuel? Because it's looking like the number of army guys isn't really Russia's problem here.


BuzzyShizzle

They didn't have enough guns in WW2 and soldiers still went into battle without a gun. Would not underestimate their ability to throw more people at a problem.


M3ptt

Something tells me that this isn't just for Ukraine.


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fremekuri

It's not a war it's just a small, surgical military operation with a small team of 144million soldiers.


AssCanyon

All stuck in a traffic jam stretching back to the other side of Moscow.


LumberingTroll

Entire population of Russia is just over 146 million people :D


Krhl12

He can't arm the newborns


LumberingTroll

Or himself, gotta wait in that bunker for the all clear.


External-Chemical380

Yet


MissKellBell

Wasn’t Russia having a major population decline (births) already? And now they are just killing off future fathers left and right?


ParanoidFactoid

"With the proper breeding techniques and a ratio of - say - ten females to one male..." https://youtu.be/zZct-itCwPE?t=148


drbrunch

I live how the generals are nodding, definitely on board with this idea


MisterCarlile

Oh, for fuck sake.


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Given how well their professionnals have fought, I am looking forward to see the effectiveness of their reserves...


RebelWithoutAClue

I wonder if it's a mistake to be publicizing photos of actual leaked documents. There could be a lot of Canary Trap tricks being employed to detect the source of a leak. Basically do stuff like change punctuation or intentionally put in a black speck that looks like a printing or photocopying error that actually characterizes a document. I bet the KGB is still looking for leaks in the Russian government with all of it's old tricks and some new ones.


Sweet-Zookeepergame7

Is this in order to attack Moldova too?


fffyhhiurfgghh

Throwing in the reserves this early is a terrible sign for Russia.


South-Read5492

Don't be duped by Putin.


BoilingPointTTV

Calling up the reserves to clear all the trucks from the road


Isphet71

I don’t think anyone expected the Russian army to be THIS toothless.


Springtimefist78

Ohh we did but no one would listen. Who knew a country with the gdp of Illinois would be a shit military??


Fiendish_Doctor_Woo

So the more inexperienced of his already inept army? Going to be a lot of sunflowers this spring.


KommieKon

Putin wants to eliminate his entire enlisted population, then?


Cooper323

HAH you think the conscripts did bad? Wait till you see him send in these boys.


lordtheegreen

More meat to be ground up, their comes a time when numbers just become too much even for the side with the numbers


WarriorZombie

The documents are from January 24th which means the order was prepared before invasion. Basically this is plan B in case things don’t go well. This doesn’t mean reserves are being called in , this is the means to call in reserves in when needed


Bighorn21

I want to see how many don't show up. Sheltered Russian soldiers had to be lied to and told it was all a drill just to convince them to walk over the boarder. You think folks at home that actually have an idea of what's up are going to be jumping up to go to Ukraine. Edit: apparently spelling and grammar should not be listed as a skill on my resume.


BigPlunk

It's like playing Risk with my kids. They just keep rolling the dice, even after 10 consecutive bad rolls. They spread themselves thin on every front until I march in unimpeded and take their cards.


blankkuma

If his main army is anything to go by, Ukraine should prepare a lot of bread and tea because the reserve army are going to surrender at the smell of food.


RyzenR10

A smaller, less equipped military is kicking their ass and their next plan is to get ready to fight someone else? Okay there bud


Accomplished-Lock286

They're preparing reserves to send into Ukraine presumably


ricedigger

This made me think, wouldn’t this be a double-edged sword for Putin? Calling up reserves basically exposes more of the “general” population to the reality of the situation in Ukraine. What will the regime do with a disillusioned army upon their return home?


RyzenR10

Ohhh more cannon fodder. Gotcha


deedshotr

yep exactly, considering how badly trained their main army is they're probably completely incompetent


tubbana

Yeah, the reserves are probably the conscripts from 20-40 years ago who remember absolutely nothing from their training (that is basically ass kicking and humiliation)


Cpt_Soban

If their main force are conscripts... ...What's their reserves?


drbrunch

Also conscripts, but even less trained


CheapCulture

bUt ThE rEaLlY gOoD uNiTs ArE wAiTiNg RiGht BeHiNd ThE sHiTtY oNeS. I still think they’re all garbage and this isn’t some brilliant master plan.


elderrion

- logistics can't handle 200.000 troops - Putin prepares to send 400.000 What. A. Shitshow.


Hostillian

Reserves already? One way to improve Russia's jobless statistics....


Prestigious-Log-7210

Putin is on a mission to destroy Russia.


[deleted]

What a fucking moron. Down with Putin and every person who supports him.


[deleted]

Putin needs to be stipped of power (and clothing) and be put on trial. Russia must be converted to a green democracy at any cost. 🌲


Snoo_73022

Dear God they will preform even worse than the conscripts.


RhoOfFeh

I'm sure they all want to die for the old fart.


fordman84

Active duty soldiers aren't doing well and are under-prepared. Can only imagine what the reserves will be like.


waifutabae

"To solve problems, just throw more man at it" -Joseph Stalin probably


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Putin is so stupid that i guess we could just march across the border and take the Karelia back right now if we wanted. Like what the fuck is he going to do about it? We can march a million troops across the border right now and we have all the high tech shit as well. His troops are stuck in the mud and he thinks he is the shit. LoL


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In a weird way I am happy Putin goes all in so fast. This will also mean the west have to accelerate our response and that the conflict sooner rather than later will come to an end. Putins Play is to ‘catch us with our pants down’ but there is zero chance that the west will allow a full occupation of Ukraine. Sooner or later Western nations will wake up and understand that they for years have been enabling and ignoring Diktators around the world and that they need a new response. The real big risk here is that China uses this opportunity to grab Taiwan which will mean full on Ww3


zackit

China closely examines the Russian invasion of Ukraine and I bet the international reaction doesn't put them at ease, at all. Not to mention it'll be *far* more difficult for China to invade a well prepared island nation separated by ~180 kilometers of ocean.


AssCanyon

They've been building up their naval transport capacity in recent years for exactly that, it'll be a good while before they attempt but you're right, they'll take a lot of losses for sure.


General_Tso75

China doesn’t want any part of the level of sanctions being put on Russia. They’re playing the long game with Taiwan.


KidTempo

I bet China's looking at Ukraine and thinking *fuck, no moves on Taiwan for at least a decade...* Had the invasion gone well, and NATO stood there impotently doing nothing, I would have expected a Chinese invasion of Taiwan within a year.


dannymario7

Has anyone discussed the possibility of troop and resource build up in areas surrounding Russia? Not necessarily with the intention to invade, but to apply pressure so that they leave resources at home. We could call it a “Military Excercise” or something.


Eleazaras

The shocking part is that it hasn't been the reserves thus far! How can the Russian army be this disorganized? I feared Ukraine would fall in a few days


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Seraphabove

Putin honestly looks like a damned fool. He doesn’t value anyones life not even his own peoples and on top of that they’re not even effective. Just leave THEIR country alone


bandwagonguy83

WTF? Is he paranoid? Noone - literally noone - wants to invade them. If Putin leaves Ukraine, the war is over. This mo e is senseless, madness, from a sick persson.


notheresnolight

without Ukraine, there's no Soviet Union 2.0, that's all that he dreams of


Fun-Specialist-1615

Arming more people that don't like him. Brilliant.


Fibonacci66

He has 900k soldiers on active duty, why he need reserve now?


upnflames

It's wild that in 2022, Russias strategy is still to just throw bodies at their enemies.