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Almost time for the kids and grandpas smh
They're gonna need winter camouflage or else they'll stick out like boogers on a white wall. >

That's the point. They use cannon fodder to see where Ukrainians are shooting from so that the Russian artillery can target them >

except thanks to HIMARS that had kinda been neutralized quite some time ago. Since HIMARS outranges Russian batteries. Ukraine opens up on mobniks, Russia returns fire, maybe the Ukranian artillery is damaged by a lucky shot instead of an inaccurate shell from a worn out Russian barrel, but a nearby HIMARS will counter fire and eliminate the Russian artillery anyway.
Cannon fodder only works to draw out artillery if you don't have counter fire waiting for you. Like a pawn in chess protected from capture by a knight. >

You talking as if there's a HIMARS stationed every few kilometers. >

Between the HIMARS, M270, German MARS and the French M270s, there are absolutely enough to be stationed every 30/40 kilometers >

It's unavoidable, if Russia plans to wage war any longer. >

Yeah but all that has to be levied against what the public and non-wartime economy can bear.
If mobilization is more universal, then it stands to reason even more people will flee and be drafted.  After that who stocks shelves or drives trucks or works in factories?
Without a workforce, Putins blunder starts having very real daily inconveniences for even his most zealous supporters. >

Russia has a population of 140M people. They are typically conscripting from poor rural areas. They could do this for years and it wouldnt show. >

Idk but 140M isn't actually that much if you sort out everyone that isn't able to fight and/or has already left the country and/or is already mobilised and/or dead. While also having to sustain the rest of the country and protecting its borders.
Oh and you have to account for corruption aswell. >

Yeah, fighting age men might be 20-25 million. They may be using up the "undesirables" first, but in another year a million of the cream of the crop may have fled or gone into hiding, and a million may be casualties of war (either dead or wounded). 10% of the prime working age men going poof in a couple years isn't going to bode well for Russia. >

Its a compounding problem, because the current working age demographic was already negatively influenced by the fall of the soviet union >

Trying for a winter push while unpopularity at home is increasing, this might be their last crack at the invasion then hopefully this bloody mess ends. >

It will be a Feb / March push and it will fail as Ukraine is building up troops themselves preparing for this exact scenario. >

According to Ukrainian Minister of Defence, to achieve the required mobilization figures, Russia is about to prevent recruitment age men from leaving the country and declare martial law. >

That is one of the most badass videos that I have ever seen >

The bottom of the barrel is getting really scraped up. Not much wood left down there. >

Is that the barrel being referenced? I never knew that! >

If they've been having trouble equipping troops with the basic stuff a soldier needs another 200k or more conscripts won't improve thst situstion >

That dude on the left is looks like he doesn't have a chance in hell of surviving 2 weeks bro. Why even give him an assault pack and sleeping mat >

Reminds of a scene in one of the Austin Powers movies where Austin’s dad tells one of the bad guys to just drop on the floor because the bad guy doesn’t even have a name tag. No chance >

For reals man.. don't even bother with name tapes unless they make 6 months at the front lol. >

In one of the phone call transcripts I saw recently, a soldier spoke about mobilization in January and said they would be pulling people from emergency services and such. Looks like it was true. >

So that's the new Russian strategy people were talking about. Instead of building longer tables, Putin is now trying to build the great wall of dead Russians to delay the inevitable. >

What do you mean new Russian strategy that’s what they’ve always done >

How do they do that without finishing off their economy?  They are now having problems finding workers to replace recently drafted and those who fled. >

2 days before Russian Christmas? 
That's so mean for all those kids to lose their fathers. >

In Russia, the huge winter holiday is New Year, not Christmas. So it's not "just 2 days before Christmas", it's "right after New Year". 
Judging by the usual way of spending New Year holidays across the people, who'll be responsible for the mobilization (non-stop drinking), it's going to be a complete disaster. >

Unfortunately for Zappov Branniganski, Ukraine doesn't have preset limits on how many Russians they kill. Might as well be pissing in the wind. >

They do have a limit though, ammunition. >

Same goes for Russia though and I'd be surprised if their production is as fast. >

"We know you're planning an offensive on January  5"
"Well, not anymore." 
"Shit." >

More meat for the grinder >

Has anyone tried turning Russia off and back on again? We cant be picky at this point. >

More blood for the blood god. >

Skulls for the Skull Throne! >

Need that new wave seeing as the others were so thoroughly destroyed. How do the Russian people not see this as anything other than a sign of how badly the war is going for them? >

Their propaganda machine isn’t just good at deceiving foreigners, it’s even better at deceiving their home population. That plus obstinate denial. They’re the biggest and best country in the world. How could they possibly lose??? >

Merry Christmas poor and unwanted people of Russia. >

Still no answer for HIMARS. >

Intelligence was pretty accurate about this back in like November. Pretty impressive. >

So because Ukraine announced this Intel Russia will go out of their way to do it on any date other than January 5th, but probably not by much, maybe a week off. And they won't call it a second mobilization, it will that they got the addresses wrong on about 100,000 of the men intended to be mobilized the first time. This is just them re-issuing those letters. >

Just in time for Christmas! >

That’ll do the job, I guess? >

Are they trying to catch people visiting for holidays? >

Russian "plans" don't have a lot of representation in reality >

Russian men -- get out while you can!