Putin Orders Russian Army to Increase Troop Size by 180K

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/09/16/putin-orders-russian-army-to-increase-troop-size-by-180k-a86383

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  1. And I’m ordering my bank account to increase with 180K EUR. I guess we both have equal chance to succeed.

  2. This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/09/16/putin-orders-russian-army-to-increase-troop-size-by-180k-a86383) reduced by 79%. (I’m a bot)
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    > President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday increasing the number of soldiers in the Russian military by 180,000, bringing the total number of active servicemen to 1.5 million for this upcoming winter.

    > The decree, which takes effect Dec. 1, sets the overall number of military personnel within Russia's army at 2,389,139, including 1.5 million servicemen.

    > The authorities claim our work "Discredits the decisions of the Russian leadership." We see things differently: we strive to provide accurate, unbiased reporting on Russia.

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  3. Huge-Total-6981 on

    In November they can recruit the Americans that worship Putin and Russia. Just tell them Ukrainians are brown and are eating dogs, they won’t bother to check facts.

  4. RicardoMultiball on

    Easy: just go through tik tok and find all those proud, young, Z-loving Russian influencers that were so pro-invasion 400 days ago.

  5. ConorsTitaniumShin on

    Only way to do that is to draft the youngins, women and kidnapped people at the border for forced conscription. You can’t reproduce those losses in a few months.

  6. Cheeeeeseburger on

    Oh look… Russia trying to rid itself of more “undesirables”. Aka anyone not living in Moscow or St. Petersberg. Fuck Russia.

  7. 180K with no experience and are ready to be thrown in the meat grinder.

    People in Russia really need to step up and speak.

  8. Hang on. I order my bank account to increase balance by 180K.

    It’s not working? What do you mean the balance has to come from somewhere?

  9. “We will send meat-waves until the enemy is defeated” -Russia’s only known military strategy in 1,000 years.

  10. Entire-Enthusiasm553 on

    instead of everyone giving their life why not buddy give his and now bam! They ok! Problem solved!

  11. Major-Check-1953 on

    Russia can’t properly train and supply the troops they have right now. The Russian troops will just end up as more fertilizer.

  12. Russia is about to have a high ratio of women to men.

    *Russian Mail order brides* has entered the chat

  13. Seems like Putin’s really ramping up the military. That’s a huge increase in troop numbers.

  14. gentleman_bronco on

    I wonder how quickly the recently released POW’s were sent back to the front lines. Putin genuinely doesn’t value anything but himself.

  15. Makes me think of the nazis last moments when allies discovered they were fighting against babies. Very sad

  16. I can just see it now, jowls flapping, red faced, balding, screaming at his yes men “More! Find me more peasants! Throw them like grains of rice, I don’t care how many of them die for my glory!”

  17. Previous_Soil_5144 on

    “The one with the rifle shoots! The one without, follows him! When the one with the rifle gets killed, the one who is following picks up the rifle and shoots!”