Posted on 04/11/2024 4:47:23 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Russia's armed forces have grown larger and not dwindled during its war in Ukraine, a top US general said on Wednesday.
"The army is actually now larger — by 15 percent — than it was when it invaded Ukraine," US Army Gen. Christopher Cavoli, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe, told the House Armed Services Committee in a hearing.
"Over the past year, Russia increased its front-line troop strength from 360,000 to 470,000," Cavoli continued, adding that the bolstered numbers stemmed from Russia raising its conscription age from 27 to 30.
The increase, Cavoli said, meant that Russia was able to enlarge "the pool of available military conscripts by 2 million for years to come."
"In sum, Russia is on track to command the largest military on the continent," Cavoli said in his opening statement to Congress.
"Regardless of the outcome of the war in Ukraine, Russia will be larger, more lethal, and angrier with the West than when it invaded," he added.
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Freaking strategic deep thinkers in charge really dug a deep hole thinking they could use Ukraine to degrade the Russians.
Keep poking that bear and find out.
“Business Insider”
Business Insider is OBVIOUSLY another Putin-Controlled media outlet in the West.
How do I know this? Easy, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Lindsey Graham, and virtually every other Western Media outlet has ASSURED US that the Ukraine War was ‘weakening’ Russia, and they would NEVER lie to us...no, no way, nope, never.
Oil up 20% in the last four months-ruble still in the toilet.
hint-it takes 20% more rubles to buy same amount of oil-it should be higher.
Things are still going swimmingly for Vlad.
And when the war started, it was 10% of the size it was during the Fulda Gap days. And now it’s 15% bigger! Yeah, they were clearly intent on conquering the world, and reestablishing the entire Russian empire.
Bob McNamara is laughing from below.
“Keep poking that bear and find out.”
MANY OF US (you included) knew that starting a land war on Russia’s borders would only end ONE WAY (assuming we’re even around to discuss the outcome), which was Russia getting stronger and SPANKING the crap out of the Neocons...which is why we opposed it.
Now we have to live with a TOTALLY CHANGED world, and changed in a way that is NOT favorable to us or any other LGBT-controlled country.
“Bob McNamara is laughing from below.”
Same for Stalin - all he had to do was keep his mouth shut and the Neocons back then would have trotted right over the cliff, as they’ve done with Ukraine here.
So he’s basically saying it went from 10% of the Fulda Gap era to 11.5%? Wow… Terrifying. Clearly they are hell-bent on invading Europe… The Baltics, Poland, all of it!
The operation was to extract $$$$$
Defense Industrial Political Complex
Their army can grow tenfold, but it will never have enough of what truly gives strength. Diversity, of course. That’s what gives strength, we are told.
Ukraine has NO chance of gaining back lost territory. It can only lose more lives and more territory. It only prevent the loss of more territory by surrendering and agreeing to remain neutral.
Russia is probably the worst country to take on. Way to go gloablists. I keep saying they obviously didn’t google operation Barbarossa. Then I realize they probably know winning is not possible. Other demonaical aims are likely afoot. Bleed the west dry of resources and manpower too.
How is this war still going on?
Putin has already died six times and the Ukes have run out of live bodies 7 times.
When MAGA oil stops all war on earth, Putin will have taken exactly what he was after all along like magic.
“ Oil up 20% in the last four months-ruble still in the toilet.
hint-it takes 20% more rubles to buy same amount of oil-it should be higher.
Things are still going swimmingly for Vlad.”
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Nobody here cares what happens in Russia. The only thing I care about is that NO MORE AMERICAN TAXPAYERS’ MONEY SHOULD GO TO SUPPORT UKRAINE.
“Now we have to live with a TOTALLY CHANGED world, and changed in a way that is NOT favorable to us or any other LGBT-controlled country.”
LOL !
How much weight did they gain?
Untrained conscripts? Cannon fodder?
that doesn’t make any sense raising the conscription age from 27 to 30 two years into the war would only catch those who were 28 at the start of the war!
Looks like bad propaganda
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