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Let’s talk about the stark differences between Ukraine and Russia’s recruitment, drafting, and conscription practices. Who is targeted (primarily) to be drafted for military service, and why? You’ll see why the answer really does matter, and how it reveals many other key facts that people often miss.
Pro tip: it doesn’t
Are you sure? Russia draft from when they are 18, and it’s claimed many at the front have less than 6 months training.
Teenager = 13-19 years.
Even if Russia send most young soldiers to non combat areas, I seriously doubt that the priority is the safety of the soldiers, considering the meat wave tactics they use, and the fact that they keep pushing despite horrendous losses.
Yes I am sure, russia still haven’t even started to mobilize people from big cities, where most people live actually, most of those that were drafted came from the most who cares regions like buryatia or whatever.
They literally do zhukov style human wave offensive with anti-retreat forces at the back and russians cheer on, so yeah russia can support this for years.
Because if Putin drafts from Moscow, he’ll fall out a window real fucking fast
He won’t there were 0 popular uprisings in 25 years of putins rule, there were 0 in the last century, at worst there were demonstartions where people went to police themselves to be arrested.
Closest they were to popular uprising was during tambov rebellion in 1920. Russians love their oppressors, they absolutely adore stalin, putin, czars, that’s just how they roll.
Officially. But it’s not hard to find stories of conscript (18-20 year olds) who were forced to sign contracts and ended up on the front.
I am not saying there aren’t 18 years old russians, they just aren’t even close to depleting their “human” resources.