Scott Ritter:
Some initial thoughts on Russia’s partial mobilization:
First and foremost, this represents a new phase in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, namely the fact that Russia is fighting the NATO alliance as opposed to just Ukraine.
To respond to this threat, Russia is creating a new reality of its own, namely to transition from a fight that had Russia working with allies and operating on foreign soil, to Russia defending the motherland. The partial mobilization is being conducted in parallel with political referendums that will see the Donbas and other Ukrainian territory be absorbed into the Russian federation.
This absorption will fundamentally alter the legal foundations of the conflict. While the referendums currently being considered only impact lands under current Russian occupation, Putin spoke of the need to free all of “Novo Rossiya” from the yoke of Ukrainian tyranny.
I believe the absorption of Ukrainian territory will be expanded at some point to include Odessa and Kharkov.
The mobilization of 300,000 men, as well as the announced goal of bringing all other units up to the standards of the Russian army, will not happen overnight. Russia will be forming new units, and this takes time.
I believe we will see a strategic pause while Russia completes its partial mobilization. This pause will be marked by heavy fighting as Ukraine will seek to disrupt the referendums and alter the geography of the battlefield. But once Russia consolidates the new territory politically, and accrues the necessary military capacity, I believe we are looking at the physical destruction of the Ukrainian nation as the endgame for this conflict.
I also believe there is nothing NATO can do to alter this reality.
More to follow.
No question he’s insane.
Next time could you please paraphrase this thinking and put your own thoughts in, instead of relying on the pedophile. That makes a more persuasive argument.
I should have said, instead of quoting directly from the pedophile.
‘They want war....They surely got one now’
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/09/they-wanted-war.html
“Shoygu tells who will be affected by mobilization
The mobilization will cover people who have served, primarily those with combat experience and a military registration specialty, Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu said.
“Those who have served and have the right military specialty will be mobilized. All those who have been drafted will not be sent to the zone of the reserve. There is no question of mobilizing students, nor will conscripts be sent to the Special Forces. A total of 300,000 reservists will be drafted during the partial mobilization,” TASS quoted Shoygu as saying.
He noted that Russia has a huge mobilization resource of those who have served, those who have combat experience and military specialization.
“We have almost 25 million of them. So you can understand that this mobilization is a partial mobilization, 1% or a little more, 1.1% of the total mobilization resource,” Defense Minister Shoygu stressed.”
First and foremost it appears that the Russian parliament is not all that enthusiastic about Putin’s obsession. Although they may approve some hint of support, they are more like taking a wait and see approach. This earlier FR link [https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4094909/posts?q=1&;page=1] has some interesting arguments about the DUMA’s role, and Comment #51 has 4 more links that could be relevant.