But yet you leave out that:
-Conscripts won't be sent to Ukraine frontline (they can be as dejected as they like driving their trucks, and packing winter equipment)
-Russia just mobilized 1% of it's army capacity. 1%... that's the big news.
-Russian central bank just
lowered interest rates. Everyone can keep up with mortgage repayments unlike Australia, for instance.
-Bank of Russia, and CNN confirm sanctions caused a .... 2-4 percent contraction in Russian economy. Compared to what % contraction across Europe?
-Supermarkets are full and prices are reasonable (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ups7Dmzk3E) . can anywhere in Europe, US, Australia make such a mundane, yet provocative video?
Russian tanks CAN out-range, out-manoeuvre dudes running around with javelins (javelins aren't some magic missile)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukrain...rces-1.6443048
Quote:
Wali, a fellow Van Doo and sniper with combat experience in Afghanistan, was manoeuvring around to get a clean shot at one of the Russian iron monsters with an American-made Javelin anti-armour missile.
The tank had been tantalizingly out of reach before it turned on them and struck.
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Russian artillery targets undisciplined "cannon fodder" as soon as they take a rest, turn on their phone and call home, or light a smoke.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/eur...e-7244535.html
Quote:
"When we turn on mobile phones or radio, they can recognize our presence immediately," said Denys. "And then the shooting starts."
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The Ukrainian international legion is a spun up army (not a standing army), and the non-nazi's hate the nazi's. There is no harmony, not every fighting soldier gets a rifle, and they have bugger all ammo.
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada...ion-in-ukraine
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Hrulf told them to train on Ukrainian weapons, but among almost 30 soldiers there were just seven or eight AK-47 assault rifles and a paltry 30-60 bullets per person, says John, the B.C. man.
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At one point they discovered that Hrulf had a tattoo on his hand of a “black sun,” (https://presearch.com/images?q=chris...%20black%20sun) a symbol used by the SS in Nazi Germany and sometimes by the Neo-fascist movement, Paul and John recalled.
“My friend James who was there literally spat on the ground in front of him … and said ‘this is everything our grandfathers fought against in the Second World War.’”
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For how many centuries have Russian military been studying and running drills on this territory? Do you really expect a under-resourced, unsupported, spun-up army of non-nazi + nazi foreign fighters can get their shit together on Russia's home turf?