As far as I can make out, this 130K number is just business as usual. It's completely separate and apart from any activities in Ukraine, as stated in the article. This is from back at the end of last year:
... separate from the regular, biannual draft, which brings between 120,000 to 140,000 men twice a year into service. Those conscripts serve for one year. Under current law, the draft targets men between the ages of 18-27. Those soldiers are not allowed to be sent abroad or into active combat.
Is Russian military training like the American basic we see on tiktok? Or do they actually hit people? Are they strict about uniforms, making the bed, having the storage locker in order? Do they care about those things like in the west?
I can imagine there are more discipline issues in the west because people are more .... individualistic? Spoiled? Childish? But I wouod think Russians have a better idea of the hearfsjips of real life. They would perhaps be more obedient to authority so the army wouldn't have to waste time.
Maybe just education on how to handle weapons?
I'm old as dirt. Basic training for me was in 1987 so some stuff then probably doesn't happen now. I happened to end up on a garbage detail and had to empty my Drill Sergeant's trash can. They had the "training plan" calendar on the wall and every single little thing was spelled out in detail.
Basic in the Army and especially the Marines is a giant mind fuck. It was designed and fine tuned over decades by psychologists and other people with PhD after their names to achieve one simple thing. Take Pvt Joe Blow with his hopefully at least 90 iq off the city street corner, and make him a somewhat trained infantryman that follows orders in 8-12 weeks.
For the stupid and weak minded it works extremely well. For someone reasonably intelligent like myself, that had family and friends who were veterans, I went in with an edge. I knew how not to gain attention on myself, and just cruised on through with no problems.
When I was in Germany in 1990 I got a slot for the "Berlin orientation tour" because I made my Group CO and Company CO look good at the NCO academy in Nurnberg. I went to Berlin in April which was 5 months after the wall had opened. I saw Soviet soldiers when I was there.
I cannot say where these Soviet guys were from. They could have been from the "stans", from Chechnya, from near fucking Mongolia for all I know. I don't even know if I even saw a real Russian. I can say though that they were all slovenly looking and acted un professional in public. We were in class A's and had an inspection every morning before getting on the bus. They looked like homeless people wearing identical dirty clothes.
That's my anecdotal view of Soviet soldiers. I don't know if that's still how the Russian military works.
They've met their objectives. It has been dastardly clever by design. This is the scary scenario. Along comes the tiger in the flank.
At this point it is simple attrition as the pendulum swings.
How much is by design, a design greater than its patriots, conscripts, and the dumb band playing along, to what extent remains escalation and agenda, but the more it plays out, the more it pulls into it. Until.
Both sides are strategically aligning. Except you're buying dumb propaganda. While there's a big huge vacuum. A convergence. It isn't localised. It's erupting.
But as far as this topic. It will keep fighting. This topic, you'd have expected full mobilisation. Almost to that extent. It is becoming it. But there's time as it unfolds.
As far as I can make out, this 130K number is just business as usual. It's completely separate and apart from any activities in Ukraine, as stated in the article. This is from back at the end of last year:
Russia Proposes Major Military Reorganization, Conscription Changes, Increase In Troop Numbers (RFERL 12/23/2022)
Is Russian military training like the American basic we see on tiktok? Or do they actually hit people? Are they strict about uniforms, making the bed, having the storage locker in order? Do they care about those things like in the west?
I can imagine there are more discipline issues in the west because people are more .... individualistic? Spoiled? Childish? But I wouod think Russians have a better idea of the hearfsjips of real life. They would perhaps be more obedient to authority so the army wouldn't have to waste time. Maybe just education on how to handle weapons?
I'm old as dirt. Basic training for me was in 1987 so some stuff then probably doesn't happen now. I happened to end up on a garbage detail and had to empty my Drill Sergeant's trash can. They had the "training plan" calendar on the wall and every single little thing was spelled out in detail.
Basic in the Army and especially the Marines is a giant mind fuck. It was designed and fine tuned over decades by psychologists and other people with PhD after their names to achieve one simple thing. Take Pvt Joe Blow with his hopefully at least 90 iq off the city street corner, and make him a somewhat trained infantryman that follows orders in 8-12 weeks.
For the stupid and weak minded it works extremely well. For someone reasonably intelligent like myself, that had family and friends who were veterans, I went in with an edge. I knew how not to gain attention on myself, and just cruised on through with no problems.
When I was in Germany in 1990 I got a slot for the "Berlin orientation tour" because I made my Group CO and Company CO look good at the NCO academy in Nurnberg. I went to Berlin in April which was 5 months after the wall had opened. I saw Soviet soldiers when I was there.
I cannot say where these Soviet guys were from. They could have been from the "stans", from Chechnya, from near fucking Mongolia for all I know. I don't even know if I even saw a real Russian. I can say though that they were all slovenly looking and acted un professional in public. We were in class A's and had an inspection every morning before getting on the bus. They looked like homeless people wearing identical dirty clothes.
That's my anecdotal view of Soviet soldiers. I don't know if that's still how the Russian military works.
Older soldiers rape younger soldiers.
They've met their objectives. It has been dastardly clever by design. This is the scary scenario. Along comes the tiger in the flank.
At this point it is simple attrition as the pendulum swings.
How much is by design, a design greater than its patriots, conscripts, and the dumb band playing along, to what extent remains escalation and agenda, but the more it plays out, the more it pulls into it. Until.
Both sides are strategically aligning. Except you're buying dumb propaganda. While there's a big huge vacuum. A convergence. It isn't localised. It's erupting.
But as far as this topic. It will keep fighting. This topic, you'd have expected full mobilisation. Almost to that extent. It is becoming it. But there's time as it unfolds.
Could be because of this and not casualties.
More meat for Putin's grinder.