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In reply to the discussion: Russia Relying on 'Mass Over Quality' As Moscow Faces Rising Losses: UK [View all]Warpy
(111,794 posts)The translation is that they're now down to hardware they made back in the 60s that they're rushing into service, rust and all, if it can develop any forward motion and has a gun that will fire once or twice before it blows up.
They're rushing green kids into the front who barely know which end the bullet comes out of, not that they have many to fire.
The 'stands, which have been ordered to sell all their exports to Russia after spending years developing their own markets are going to be in no mood to comply, especially since Russia will want to pay in hastily printed rubles.
And with a generation of men slaughtered in a useless war, I don't see how they're going to recover, certainly not soon and not without the next generation being a lot browner than they'd like.
(You'll have to excuse me, I clicked on a video of a Russian soldier heading to the front acrsoss captured land and it took me a minute to realize those weren't downed trees I was looking at)