Putin orders Russia to boost size of army by 180,000 troops to 1.5 million

https://cnn.com/2024/09/16/europe/putin-russia-ukraine-troop-boost-intl/index.html

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  1. Not_A_Bot_Ur_J_Mad on

    Lots of meat for the grinder.

    Sounds like he’s getting desperate to end the war on his terms.

  2. Oh this is this time of the year. Once again, they’re using that simple trick to be able to higher more people without having to declare how many people died!

    It took them 8 months to increase military personal by 180k. That’s about 22.5K people per month.

    That’s not very far from the 1K death/day estimate from Ukraine.

  3. I took a look at the Kyiv post…. If the losses of equipment are anywhere near accurate, I have to wonder what Russia will consider a bare minimum of armament to preserve for minimum defense. The numbers are staggering.

  4. SoUnProfessional on

    So sad, Russia’s population was already declining. This is a death sentence to a whole generation.

  5. Putin orders green cheese to be harvested from the moon.

    Putin orders Raygun to give up his gold medal.

    Putin orders tides to stop washing away his sand castles.

    Putin orders raccoons to stop making a mess by his trash.

    Putin orders women to find his odd look and offputting demeanor attractive.

    Putin orders citizens to stop referring to him by his nickname.

  6. PoliticalCanvas on

    The same time:

    [https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/fzgps/date/2024-09-15/segment/01](https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/fzgps/date/2024-09-15/segment/01) September 15, 2024:

    >ZAKARIA: You know, we’ve talked about munitions often and you talk about it a lot. Help us understand. So the U.S. has passed this big aid package. Europe has passed aid packages. Why is that not translating into enough munitions for you now? Is it that there isn’t enough supply or is it that you need more aid?
    >
    >ZELENSKYY: Everything. A lot of different reasons. First, it goes very slowly. Second, we need 14 brigades to be ready. **Until now we don’t have from these package on brigades, we didn’t equip even four.**

  7. 180 000 soldiers is just a half year worth of soldiers for Ruzzia. So next mobilization this spring.

  8. Additional_Amount_23 on

    Does this guy not have anything better to do than playing toy soldiers with the lives of both Ukrainians and even Russians? Has anyone introduced him to the idea of running a functional and prosperous country? If he is too dead set on war then someone should introduce him to HoI4 so he can go play his war games on his own and the rest of the world can rid our hands of him.

  9. They should recruit these goddamn russians from Finland first. Instead russian military aged men are hiding over here.

  10. Ah, the old Russian proverb: *”We thought our situation was so bad that it couldn’t get any worse. Then it got worse.”*

    With this move Putin has just exasperated an already horrible population-bomb crisis. Where does he suppose he’s gonna get 180,00 more soldiers from? The army was scraping the bottom of the barrel as it was. What are they gonna do, expand the recruitment age window again? Import more North Koreans?

    This is madness. Putin must be stopped by whatever means necessary.

  11. Russia (as we know it today) will not exist in 100 years. They simply won’t have enough Russians to make their economy float. Putin is throwing the baby out with the bath water.

  12. To put into perspective the brutality of this war, statistically, all of those men will be dead or wounded in 5-6 months.

  13. PUTIN 

    Be bigger! I order you to be bigger! 

    WOMAN 

    Order, eh — who does he think he is? 

    PUTIN 

    I am your dictator! 

    WOMAN 

    Well, I didn’t vote for you.

    PUTIN 

    You don’t vote for dictators.

    WOMAN 

    Well, ‘ow did you become dictator then? 

    (to be continued)

  14. Putin still determined to acquire more cannon fodders at the expense of weakening the foundation of Russia’s future.

    By the time shit hit the fan, he’ll be long gone.