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2022-12-21 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

'Necessary' to increase Russian army to 1.5 million troops: minister

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Posted by DarthVader 2022-12-21 09:03|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Gotta up your game if you wanna keep NATO from expanding all the way to Vladivostok.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-12-21 11:17|| 2022-12-21 11:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Doesn't Russia still have like 500K draft dodgers living in other countries?

Posted by Penguin_of_the_Desert 2022-12-21 12:43|| 2022-12-21 12:43|| Front Page Top

#3 500-700K is the estimate. Russia only has about 2-2.5 million men of draftable age. Say 600k gone to other countries, 300k in the military already, so in theory, this is doable. But we have already seen Russia scraping the bottom of the manpower barrel already and I'm not sure they could scare up more than an additional 500k for service.

If they do this, these men will be not at home working and generating taxes and will not be marrying and making babies. Russia is already in a death spiral demographically speaking and the economy is taking hits. Pulling this many men may fix the short term problems, but it will only kill Russia faster.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-12-21 13:51|| 2022-12-21 13:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Yeah, so they're ripe for NATO conquest.

Posted by Count Galeazzo Speaking for Boskone8418 2022-12-21 14:35|| 2022-12-21 14:35|| Front Page Top

#5 ^^ I would be more worried about the Chinese and their desire for Siberia.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-12-21 16:41|| 2022-12-21 16:41|| Front Page Top

#6 'Necessary' to increase Russian army to 1.5 million ~~troops~~ cannon fodder: minister

FIFY

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-12-21 17:01|| 2022-12-21 17:01|| Front Page Top

#7 Given that China is already in negative population growth, and possibly has been for a decade or more, if they take Siberia will they be able to hold it?

Posted by trailing wife 2022-12-21 18:19|| 2022-12-21 18:19|| Front Page Top

#8 ...well, if we can engineer that old land bridge we can just keep the invaders from down south to keep on moving. Just saying

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-12-21 19:41|| 2022-12-21 19:41|| Front Page Top

#9 The Russians need to worry more about modernizing and replacing the equipment lost and ammo expended in Ukraine.

Posted by Whusoger Shavish7113 2022-12-21 21:33|| 2022-12-21 21:33|| Front Page Top

#10 land bridge

No way. We'd have every Russian, Chinese and North Korean lining up at the US-Canadian border. Not even a fence to delay them.

Posted by Whusoger Shavish7113 2022-12-21 21:35|| 2022-12-21 21:35|| Front Page Top