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“ Force Depletion”? Russia currently has a 1.25 million man army, and their Congress ( Duma) just voted to increase it to 1.5 million by the end of 2024.

They have enough 18-24 year old males ( unlike the Ukies 18-60 year olds- or the US’s 480, 000 Army and declining) to take on NATO and the collective West….should the West make a blunder and intervene.

The only countries I see in severe decline is the US, and EU armies….which of course is going to lead to a draft re-instation should the US decide to intervene directly. You can pull up Congress’s shelved bills on re-instating the Draft.

Fact is our military does not have the capability anymore to transport that amount of troops to Europe, let alone the billions of tons of equipment and supplies…..do remember, it took us six months just to prepare for the Gulf War….and that was with tons of equipment that was already “ pre-positioned “ in Saudi and ME….that capability is long gone.

When I was working in the Kingdom way back when, I witnessed the huge amount of equipment that was sitting in HUGE underground tunnels, well, those prepositioned supplies and equipment no longer exist with our destroyed relations with the Sauds.

For transport ability? We have a lot of planes sitting there in that big “airplane” parking lot out in the desert west. Why do you suppose they were never scrapped? A lot of them are fixable!

True to the point that it would take some months to get things going when things are needed...last week! LOL!

Russia currently has a 1.25 million man army,

Lol, no they don't.

They have enough 18-24 year old males ( unlike the Ukies 18-60 year olds- or the US’s 480, 000 Army and declining) to take on NATO and the collective West

Lol, yes, Russia, a poor country with 143 million people, most of whom are alcoholics, is going to roll over NATO, a wealthy military alliance with a combined population of 957 million by... outnumbering us. I'm no math genius, but I am having trouble with that. Propaganda only works when it's believable.

“ Force Depletion”? Russia currently has a 1.25 million man army, and their Congress ( Duma) just voted to increase it to 1.5 million by the end of 2024.

Another day, another lie from dullta7.

Russia extends eligibility for military call-up by at least five years

Russia has so many "18-24 year old males" that it just raised the age at which a man may be drafted by three years, to 30, the age at which prior service enlisted men may be forced back into service by ten years, to 55, and the age at which prior service junior, senior and very senior officers may be forced back into service by five years, to 60, 65 and 70!

But Col. Pavel appreciates your support of the Rodina, and wants to buy you a drink when he gets back from deployment. Za Zdarovje!

“ Force Depletion”? Russia currently has a 1.25 million man army, and their Congress ( Duma) just voted to increase it to 1.5 million by the end of 2024.

They have enough 18-24 year old males ( unlike the Ukies 18-60 year olds- or the US’s 480, 000 Army and declining) to take on NATO and the collective West….should the West make a blunder and intervene.

Russia has been slowly depleting the top of their available draftees, and they're just gonna keep getting worse.

And your US analogy is an extremely incorrect comparison, Russia's "1.15MM man army" includes their navy, air force, specops, and rocket forces (and whatever else they break it into). Include US numbers from those same services, and you hit about 1.3MM, plus another 7-800MM in Guard and Reserve. And I guarantee our Guard/Reserve is waaay better trained than Russia's Reserve forces. And Russia's "National Guard" is more of a militarized police force / border patrol, not really full-blown military.

We wouldn't even need the rest of NATO, there is no other country on this planet that could beat us one-on-one. China jumping in might make it difficult, but I would put money on these US still coming out on top.