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So, a partial mobilization of reserves is different than when we sent National Guard and reserve units on multiple year long deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan how? A Russian stop loss on expiring enlistments is different than when we did it how? Recalling reservists with needed skills into active duty is different than when we did it how?

Just wanted to understand how these things were evidence of our military strength and preparedness but are signs of Russia’s impending collapse.

I will start with expaining that our Reserve and Guard units are all volunteer units. That means all the troops have chosen to serve in those units and understand that they may be deployed.

The mobilization in Russia is not voluntary. It's what we call "conscription".

We did the same sort of thing to WW2 vets at the start of the Korean War and it was out of desperation.

We also drafted conscripts for WW2 and Vietnam and it was a move of desperation.

I will start with expaining that our Reserve and Guard units are all volunteer units. That means all the troops have chosen to serve in those units and understand that they may be deployed.

The mobilization in Russia is not voluntary. It's what we call "conscription".

We did the same sort of thing to WW2 vets at the start of the Korean War and it was out of desperation.

We also drafted conscripts for WW2 and Vietnam and it was a move of desperation.

Put those terms into the search engine of choice and do a bit of reading.

Zeihan has a pretty well proven crystal ball and while he is not a true Wizard he is worth paying attention.

The man bun is going to trigger a few.

Putin's 'partial mobilisation' will send tens of thousands to their deaths
Ukrainian forces have killed or wounded 80,000 professional Russian soldiers - what will they do with this mobilised reserve?

Vladimir Putin is getting desperate. This morning, in a speech delayed from last night, the Russian leader announced a "partial mobilisation" of the military, alongside sham referendums in the part of Ukraine that are currently occupied by Russian forces.

In signing the presidential decree, the partial mobilisation seeks to call back into full-time service those Russian citizens that are in the armed forces reserve.

On paper, this could be up to two million people. In addition, the contracts of soldiers currently in the military are being extended indefinitely.

As usual, these announcements were accompanied by the not-so-oblique nuclear threats that we have all become used to from Putin.

At first glance, this mobilisation looks like a significant escalation in Russia’s "special military operation".

Certainly, one of the original problems with Russia's approach to the war was that it was started with goals that were far too broad for the numbers of troops deployed.

What does mobilisation actually entail?
To properly invade Ukraine, Russia would have had to have used a million or so troops, rather than the 150,000 that actually crossed the border.

What does a mobilisation of hundreds of thousands actually entail? Well, the journey from citizen-soldier to soldier takes about three months.

Modern combat is complex and demanding, and civilians are not prepared physically nor mentally for its rigours, let alone the complex technical skills that are required to operate modern equipment.

But Russia is desperate for troops in Ukraine right now - witness the collapse of the Kharkiv front, and recent reports of prisoners being press-ganged into service.

In three months' time, they may have lost the war (although it is likely to take a bit longer than that).

But, let us say that these troops would make a difference in three months' time.

These soldiers need to be trained and equipped. The Ukraine war has already hollowed out much of the Russian armed forces.

Russian equipment belongs in a museum
This includes the sending of its training battalions into combat, and so the trainers of these mobilised reservists are, in many cases, already dead.

No reason to worry, I suppose. Whatever is going to happen will happen. But I think Russia's response will determine how involved NATO will become. And I think Russia's response will be much more significant than anything seen so far.

So, a partial mobilization of reserves is different than when we sent National Guard and reserve units on multiple year long deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan how? A Russian stop loss on expiring enlistments is different than when we did it how? Recalling reservists with needed skills into active duty is different than when we did it how?

Just wanted to understand how these things were evidence of our military strength and preparedness but are signs of Russia’s impending collapse.

Trump agrees with John Burns.

Trump agrees with John Burns.

You can remind me later. Russia is winning. Russia will take Odessa and everything They desire to take.

I love Pres Trump, but he has been wrong on this war as well as on vaccines.

Very, very wrong.

yep. Two big things Trump got wrong