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Russia drafts 134,500 more conscripts. Hmmm ....

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Russia drafts 134,500 conscripts but says they won't go to Ukraine

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a decree ordering 134,500 new conscripts into the army as part of Russia's annual spring draft, but the defence ministry said the call-up had nothing to do with the war in Ukraine. The order came five weeks into Russia's invasion, which has run into...
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Russia drafts 134,500 more conscripts. Hmmm ....

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Russia drafts 134,500 conscripts but says they won't go to Ukraine

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a decree ordering 134,500 new conscripts into the army as part of Russia's annual spring draft, but the defence ministry said the call-up had nothing to do with the war in Ukraine. The order came five weeks into Russia's invasion, which has run into...
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The Russian military drafts in April and October every year.
They rarely meet their draft goals. Russians mothers will have their sons declared mentally ill (even though that will have life-long implications) to avoid having them drafted. Individual young men will maim themselves to render themselves undraftable.
And, at the same time, Russian cannot attract enough "professional" soldiers (volunteers), so they have to draft to fill the units.
It is illegal to send draftees out of the Russian Federation, except in time of war. Putin declared this a "special military operation," so legally, they cannot be deployed to Ukraine.
Draftees who die in Ukraine will be a political liability. The Kremlin can hide some of that for a while, but as draftee deaths mount, it will be more difficult;lt to hide from the public. Just like in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
 
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Bodhisattva said:
Russia drafts 134,500 more conscripts. Hmmm ....

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Russia drafts 134,500 conscripts but says they won't go to Ukraine

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a decree ordering 134,500 new conscripts into the army as part of Russia's annual spring draft, but the defence ministry said the call-up had nothing to do with the war in Ukraine. The order came five weeks into Russia's invasion, which has run into...
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they are being conscripted to help russia in it's new public/private global construction start-up, you crane
 
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IICR, the worst kind of morons are stupid morons.

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Putin’s Soldiers Caught on Tape Lamenting Losses and Blasting His Army of ‘Stupid Morons’

ReutersRussia’s Vladimir Putin is calling up another 134,500 conscripts even as more and more of his own soldiers appear to be turning on him over humiliating losses in Ukraine.According to a decree published on a Russian government portal Thursday, the troops will be called to begin service on...
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What that story doesn't make clear is that Putin also loses 134,500 now-trained (supposedly) conscripts on April 1. On CNN, they put up a map to illustrate just what sort of task is posed by trying to reposition the troops the way they say they want to...
 
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Russian Troops Suffer ‘Acute Radiation Sickness’ After Digging Chernobyl Trenches

SeanGallupSeveral hundred Russian soldiers were forced to hastily withdraw from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine after suffering “acute radiation sickness” from contaminated soil, according to Ukrainian officials.The troops, who dug trenches in a contaminated Red Forest near the site...
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What that story doesn't make clear is that Putin also loses 134,500 now-trained (supposedly) conscripts on April 1. On CNN, they put up a map to illustrate just what sort of task is posed by trying to reposition the troops the way they say they want to...
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Imagine the Russian military as a conveyor belt. New Russians soldiers are brought on board, they have to be trained, the Russian Army get some use out of them, then they separate. The time on the conveyor belt is 12 months, from start to finish. This puts a very real cap on how well they can be trained.
In October the next round of the draft and the process begins anew.
Although the idea that the RF armed forces must discharge those drafted last April might be true, that is an assumption. Russia might hang on to the guys drafted one year ago, and add this year's draftees. I am not saying I have heard that they are doing that, but, if the government can send draftees into a foreign war illegally, it would probably not have a problem keeping those scheduled for discharge while inducting the new guys.
 
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Imagine the Russian military as a conveyor belt. New Russians soldiers are brought on board, they have to be trained, the Russian Army get some use out of them, then they separate. The time on the conveyor belt is 12 months, from start to finish. This puts a very real cap on how well they can be trained.
In October the next round of the draft and the process begins anew.
Although the idea that the RF armed forces must discharge those drafted last April might be true, that is an assumption. Russia might hang on to the guys drafted one year ago, and add this year's draftees. I am not saying I have heard that they are doing that, but, if the government can send draftees into a foreign war illegally, it would probably not have a problem keeping those scheduled for discharge while inducting the new guys.
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so, it's a little something like this

 
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april fools, russian warship
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Of course, given the Benny Hill theme song now used by the Russian army as its theme song, it could well have been Russian helicopters that shot up the Belgorod fuel dump.
"Ivan, shoot your rockets."
"At what coordinates?"
"Coordinates? Look, Ivan, the Russian Army pays you to shoot rockets, now point this helicopter and shoot your dadgum* rockets!"


* Whatever the Russian equivalent word is for "dadgum."
 
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