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And professionally trained soldiers are becoming precious commodity as majority of new recruits (forced conscripts) are thrown first into battle and lucky if they are provided with minimum trainings and equipment if at all.
Getting soldiers is easy. Giving them warm clothes, good boots and enough to eat is a while different story. >

Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics. 
People give NATO a lot of shit because 80% of their military forces are non-combat arms but there’s a reason why we can sustain multi-decade major combat ops in Iraq and Afghanistan while Russia can’t supply its troops inside a nation it shares a land boarder with. POG pride baby! >

Well the US army is under 500k whereas the Russian army on one of their borders has just under 1M men. Their army is currently larger than the US army by quite a bit. Does the US have equipment and manpower to (if this article is accurate) triple the size of their army in less than a year? Probably... Lol... It is however a massive undertaking. >

500k on active duty and another 500k in the organized reserves. So yes the US Army could double its size. That said, after the 20-year cluster fuck that was Iraq/Afghanistan the US has zero stomach for another ground war and what we’re doing in Ukraine is exactly what we should be doing providing logistical, intelligence, and material support without any US troops. >

That makes good sense. I had googled active US troops and it was 485k or something.
I agree, however Ukraine will run out of manpower long before Russia will... Even trading 20:1... So economic crash is best hope to emd the war. >

That is far from true. Ukraine's population is 44 million. And Russia's is around 143m. Russia's economy and political system will completely collapse well before they come close to using the extent of their population for the war. They already have millions who have fled, and it's relatively early in the war still. 
Ukraine's current economic and political focus however is currently defeating Russia. I'd venture to say even at a 1:1 loss. Ukraine will be far victorious, and the west is seeing that. Hence the immense support now as opposed to the first few months where Ukraine was expected to fall. >

45 mil* >

Cheers, I edited it. Tbf I also overshot Russia >

Yes this is an excellent use of scarce state resources in a country with huge economic and social issues. >

Even worse for them,  they are gutting the age group they need to solve their population decline problem. This war is going to exasperate it significantly. >

The demographic challenges are why they are doing this now.
This is the last generation of ethnic Russians large enough to try this.