“Call up”.
But how many will run away?
The partial mobilization of 300k didn’t get anywhere near that number, this new call up will be even worse.
Russians do not want this war where they are invading a fellow east slavic eastern Orthodox country.
They ought to turn on Putin now
exactly
“and it’s one, two, three what are we fightin’ for...”
I think everyone who wants to go fight in Ukraine is already doing it...
I wonder if this is even accurate?
According to publicized intelligence here and there, the Russian government gathered 300,000 and continued to recruit and abduct more. They hope to have them trained enough to participate in horde attacks by March (four months, more or less).
I’m guessing that the casualty numbers may be extremely high this spring, unless the Russian people stop their government’s war as you suggest. The killing efficiency of NATO weapons and training is awesome and terrible.
Recently saw a headline saying that Russia will be spending about a third of its budget on its military forces.