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Conscript arrival -- and demise -- creates new crisis for Putin
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| October 14, 2022
| Ed Morrisey
Posted on 10/14/2022 5:11:27 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
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Comrade Putin just keeps making more problems for himself.
To: Timber Rattler
“They're using conscripts to plug holes in lines that have been moving backwards for six weeks, up against crack combat troops with high morale and lots of hard-earned experience.” I don't doubt problems with untrained convicts, but to call Ukrainians “crack combat troops with high morale and lots of hard-earned experience” is an incredible stretch for six months with very little training of their own.
Crazy propaganda from both sides!
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posted on
10/14/2022 5:21:29 AM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: Timber Rattler
Who is ISW? Couldn’t figure it out even after reading the link.
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posted on
10/14/2022 5:24:12 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
To: Vigilanteman
It's the
Institute for the Study of War, which has been providing detailed daily updates and analyses, with excellent maps, since the beginning of Russia's invasion.
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posted on
10/14/2022 5:26:35 AM PDT
by
Timber Rattler
("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
To: Vigilanteman
Its a front group for Neocon trash. Kristol is a board member.
To: ConservativeMind
Why do they call reserve units conscripts?
To: Timber Rattler
Is Ian Williams a pal of yours?
To: Timber Rattler
My new entertainment is reading comments from people claiming Russia is winning, while the Russian military continues to destroy itself in Ukraine. Somewhere in hell Baghdad Bob is smiling.
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posted on
10/14/2022 5:33:09 AM PDT
by
Rokke
To: NorseViking
Russia has universal military service like Israel. And like Israel it has a careerist core to the forces, that are supplemented as needed by reservists who can be former careerists and conscripts. I could have it wrong though
To: Rokke
Believe it or not,
Baghdad Bob still lives, in the UAE!
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posted on
10/14/2022 5:35:30 AM PDT
by
Timber Rattler
("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
To: Timber Rattler
Have the decency to inform readers of your thread that neocon and Trump hater, Bill Kristol is a board member of ISW. Then they can more easily disregard anything it has to say
To: Timber Rattler; NorseViking
The husband of my wife’s good friend from college was forced into the Ukrainian military. She left to Poland, but all men were kept in Ukraine.
These men are effectively conscripts—forced to fight.
Conscripts on both sides. That’s what the draft causes, too.
A conscript is anyone forced to fight in war.
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posted on
10/14/2022 5:38:10 AM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: Long Jon No Silver
Funny that everybody except the Putinistas around here accept and use the ISW analyses and maps for their own information and professional purposes.
Don't like the source? Find a better one, and it's not 'Moon of Alabama/KOS' or 'Sons of the New American Revolution' or 'The Saker' or whatever.
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posted on
10/14/2022 5:40:27 AM PDT
by
Timber Rattler
("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
To: ConservativeMind
Yep, except in Russia there is no such concept. There are reserve units instead.
To: Long Jon No Silver
Its reporting has been dead on.
To: ConservativeMind
The difference is that the Ukrainian conscripts are fighting for the existence of their own country, whereas the Russian conscripts are being forced to fight in an aggressive invasion driven by greed, desire for more power, and pure ego of their illustrious dictator.
Two entirely different motivations, or lack thereof.
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posted on
10/14/2022 5:42:56 AM PDT
by
Timber Rattler
("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
To: FreshPrince
Oh I am sure it has with Kristol giving first hand accounts /s
To: Timber Rattler
Wow. I was just there. I need to look him up. He’s probably a Freeper based on some of the comments I read here.
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posted on
10/14/2022 5:47:42 AM PDT
by
Rokke
To: Long Jon No Silver
Why the personal attacks?
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posted on
10/14/2022 5:50:55 AM PDT
by
popdonnelly
(All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
To: Long Jon No Silver
So you think that Kristol actually sits down and writes those detailed daily summaries and draws those maps himself?
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posted on
10/14/2022 5:51:07 AM PDT
by
Timber Rattler
("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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