To: Enlightened1
Putin is set to mobilise 150,000 reservists who he conscripted into the military earlier this week. Why doesn't he use fully trained and active duty troops?
2 posted on
10/05/2015 5:51:42 AM PDT by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: 2banana
They are kinda busy in the Ukraine.
4 posted on
10/05/2015 5:53:42 AM PDT by
P-Marlowe
(Tagline pending.)
To: 2banana
Why doesn't he use fully trained and active duty troops? They are on vacation in Ukraine.
5 posted on
10/05/2015 5:54:02 AM PDT by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: 2banana
I was thinking that too. Stupid journalists just write what they are told.
To: 2banana
Why doesn't he use fully trained and active duty troops? Because ISIS is the JV team...
7 posted on
10/05/2015 5:56:18 AM PDT by
null and void
(The voter pool needs chlorine, or maybe formaldihyde...)
To: 2banana
> Why doesn’t he use fully trained and active duty troops?
Because no special skills are necessary when there are no ROE. The reservists will be ordered to shoot on sight any party bearing ISIS colors or brandishing a weapon without benefit of uniform. Both of these are allowable under the Geneva convention.
ISIS will be annihilated in short order.
8 posted on
10/05/2015 5:56:43 AM PDT by
Westbrook
(Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
To: 2banana
Notice Putin doesn’t care what the world thinks, he just goes in and takes care of business.
This embarrassing display of impotence by the USA is why political correctness must be eradicated once and for all.
If not, we better get used to being just another France.
10 posted on
10/05/2015 5:57:35 AM PDT by
MichaelCorleone
(Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
To: 2banana
Many nations are set up differently from the USA with respect to military. They do not have the resources to maintain large standing armies like we do here. So once they give soldiers basic training, they are put on reserve status until they are needed. Most likely they are reporting for active duty several weeks a year so that their training is kept current.
The silly article implies that Putin is conscripting 150,000 citizens and sending them immediately to battle. That is not the case.
12 posted on
10/05/2015 6:01:11 AM PDT by
SamAdams76
(A businessman gets things donee with own money. A politician takes money and gets nothing done.)
To: 2banana
“Why doesn’t he use fully trained and active duty troops? “
Employment in Russia is bad. This represents 150,000 jobs. It takes people off the streets and puts them under state control. It trains people for the regular army. It does not affect Russia’s other military concerns or their ability to fully prosecute a war elsewhere. Other than the possibility of mass casualties this deployment has few downsides. Putin has plenty of political capital to spend at home.
To: 2banana
Well I hope it doesn’t turn into another Afghanistan for them.
23 posted on
10/05/2015 6:44:46 AM PDT by
angcat
To: 2banana
I don’t think he’s not using the reservists for combat, but relieving active duty troops at home so they could be used for combat instead
27 posted on
10/05/2015 7:10:55 AM PDT by
4rcane
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