The one thing Russia always had was vast human resources and the determination to throw as many as necessary into the meatgrinder without any fucks being given.
Except they haven't; probably starting after their Afghanistan, and certainly not since 1991. They've just been good at making the West think the glory days of the Red Army never ended, while still having millions of peasants willing & able to be conscripted at a moment's notice.
..... it's nothing that a few months of officers and leadership getting disappeared and mass recruiting can't fix.
Except their most recent conscription drove
at least as many out of the country or otherwise exempt themselves, one way or another.
I'd wager the 350k Russians with enough sense & ability to flee or avoid conscription would've also been a lot better at soldiering & leading; than even 500k drunken, angry, untrained natives from across Siberia & the old Khanates.
But even if they didn't have a mass exodus after every conscription/recruiting drive, there's little-to-nothing left to train them with.
Call it a meme, but Russia's military still has been devolving to the point of handing every other man a rifle, telling their butt-buddies to pick up what the first waves drop, while keeping Kadyrovites around in the rear areas to dissuade any cowardice, deserters, or further retreat (plausible, given that the Rosgvardiya has also been gutted).
It's truly up to the Russian people to clench their buttcheeks and do what has to be done.
Of course they will, but not in the manner you think. And it will definitely involve butt-sex.
There is no Napoleon nor Hitler invading the Motherland this time, there is so great Socialism to defend, there is only a pragmatic, oligarchic regime that is cynically exploiting legitimate fears of Western degeneracy and social decay to remain in power and serve their people imaginary enemies to fight against, so they don't rise up and fuck the elites instead.
Legitimate as those fears may be to us, those same fears are only stoked & disseminated by an aging & shrinking Russian elite + their media, who have long been steeped in their own degeneracy & decay, and simply don't want to be pushed out of their own rackets.
But by this point in history, it's becoming evident that only the most isolated (geographic/technologically or politically) Russians actually fear the West; along with not having an indoctrinated, growing youth demographic. The Komsomol hasn't been a thing since '91, the brightest Russians have long since left, and their state-run schools aren't exactly shining beacons of learning or leadership development.
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