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Surely they are running out of troops. How many people do they have to toss at the grinder?
They drew up draft orders for Moscow. Which they haven't send out since the start of the war. Shoigu said he wants a army of 10 million.. Which is possible and would outnumber all of Nato combined. Now if they can afford it and keep it fed is another issue..
Maybe it is theoretically possible, but that would be 1/4th of their population ages 18-44. They would have to dedicate their entire economy to just supporting the army, no ither industry would be able to survive.
Out of curiosity, how is this ratio relative to some place like North Korea?
That’s a good example actually; it looks like 30% of N Korea is in the military, and their global standing reflects this
They won't even have enough shovels for 10 million soldiers. Guess we'll be seeing meat waves of guys with pointy sticks, then.
Bad news is that they still have mosin nagants. There were almost 1/2 a billion of them made. I'm surprised they haven't pulled them out of storage on a larger scale yet.
they pulled, to sell for alcohol, or it never existed to begin with
Considering how many they shipped here, you might be right...some oligarch told the ussr they made 1/2 a billion but really just made 50million, then sold most of them off for pennies.
Their stock has been slowly dwindling down from people using them as baseball bats, table legs, and firewood