Posted on 04/12/2024 10:51:38 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
Russia is bolstering its forces for the war in Ukraine at a "far faster" rate than the United States originally estimated, a top general said.
Gen. Christopher Cavoli, head of U.S. European Command and NATO's supreme allied commander in Europe, said at Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Thursday that Russia's military has "grown back to what they were before" launching its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Newsweek reported.
Russian troops have "got some gaps that have been produced by this war, but their overall capacity is very significant still, and they intend to make it go higher," Cavoli said.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Ukraine is helping Russia’s military grow.
It’s like planting flowers. Ukrainian bodies are the fertilizer.
Cue “The Circle Of Life” song.
It’s going to take Moscow a bit longer to replace the first rate troops who died in the first days and weeks of the Russian invasion.
Russian Army is NOT at “pre-war” level. They are far above and beyond it
They have mobilized up to 1 million troops. They have turned their armaments factories up to full-production. They have had 2 years to prepare for a war with NATO (forget about Ukraine)
Russia can create war material and impress soldiers at a rate they can lose and sustain while inflicting losses at a rate the smaller country can not afford to sustain.
And like the north, Russia is not going to allow anti-war sentiment to interfere with plans.
Oops, that wasn’t supposed to happen
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They must be mass producing shovels
Just enough to smoothly change the subject to: "We've got to send more money and weapons to Ukraine before it's too late".
Yes, Drone Shovels!
Not sure there is that much anti-war sentiment in Russia.
Except these troops are not well trained and will be mostly used for meat assaults.
Previous troops, at the start of Russia’s invasion, had years or decades of training. Now those troops are mostly dead or too badly wounded to return to the fighting.
“far faster” rate than the United States originally estimated, a top general said
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Maybe if the generals weren’t so preoccupied with politics and pushing DEI they might have been able to do a better job of assessing foreign capabilities. Just saying.
Cavoli doesn’t believe you, you should take it up with him.
What in the Heck are we fighting for?
No kidding…all those former militia in the DPR and LPR…became part of the Russian military when the territories joined the RF. And they have gotten better equipped trained experienced…and dedicated.
That’s over 60,000 men and they are fighting on their own land for their own villages…unlike the Uke conscripts scraped from the Trans Carpathia, and other areas far away from the frontlines in Donbass.
Who are these new Russian troops going to be fighting ?
It’s not like the Ukrainian troops are a bunch of well trained, well supplied experienced soldiers, most of the frontline Ukrainian troops have been killed as well
Poor guy - he’s just failing about trying to be relevant - but the truth is the conscripts and contractees have had only 2 years to be trained which is minimum - but that training never happened because they were sent to the front almost immediately.
How many years did you serve in the Russian Naval Infantry or were you part of the Northern or Pacific fleets?
and Ukraine is out of munitions and men for the 7th time-
Putin will die for the 7th and 8th time shortly.
Oops that’s not supposed to happen.
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russian-has-lost-almost-90-of-its-prewar-army-u-s-intelligence-says-2e0372ab
Russia Has Lost Almost 90% of Its Prewar Army, U.S. Intelligence Says
All the Uke a laylas, have been saying for months that Russia was all in, and they couldn’t even beat Ukraine with full mobilizations. NOW, they are fully mobilizing. Which is it people?
“And they have gotten better equipped trained experienced…and dedicated.”
They have good motivation to keep the Ukrainians out of the Donbas now. There is going to be some nasty ethnic cleansing.
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