“And what about the article I linked to about surveys showing declining support for the Ukraine War in Russia?”
Yea, I agree that people in Russia were getting tired of, although that was only because they saw no end. The latest call up should put an end to those (valid) complaints.
“Yea, I agree that people in Russia were getting tired of, although that was only because they saw no end. The latest call up should put an end to those (valid) complaints.”
That is a very big IF. But, time will tell. You could very well end up being right. Or wrong.
In any event, historians and pundits will be debating this for at least the next hundred years.
The extraordinary lethality of modern weapons makes masses of poorly trained and ill-equipped troops a recipe for failure and useless casualties. The Russian military lacks an effective professional NCO and commissioned officer corps and suitable communications equipment and battle doctrine, failings that make it incapable of fighting as a modern army.
Even worse, many of Russia's best units and officers are already destroyed and dead in the attack on Ukraine with many of their best armored vehicles lost. This makes it impossible for Russia to rebuild depleted units by injecting replacement troops and equipment to bring them up to strength.
In sum, Russia simply does not have the ability to convert a mass of raw troops into a large increment of new military power for use against Ukraine.