Can someone tell me why Putin did not mobilize 500k soldiers from the beginning? They should long be in Kiiiv by now.
Isn’t overwhelming force a good thing?
Nathaniel Young
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Jace Smith
What do you honestly think this war is all about? Prove that you are no 80 IQ nigger and answer the question.
Charles Adams
It would take a looong time to build new mechanized units unless they want to send in human waves. Ukraine is in defensive and this war is crucial for their survival, so they can mobilize, yeah.
Joseph Torres
>intel was fucked
>Thought Ukrainians wanted to be Russian so they only sent riot police
>Read the Warsaw invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 because Putin's strategy is an exact carbon copy of this only 1/5th as smart
>Western media thinks Putin is lying when he says "special operation" but that's literally the legal definition and because the state hasn't called it a war they can't mobilize or draft anyone
>Even if they called for a full mobilisation Russia doesn't have enough trips or equipment
>Russia only has 2 million draft age men between 18-29
>That would cripple their workforce
>Most soldiers can abandon their post and quit and Russian law can't do anything about it because it's still not a war.
Jordan Rogers
its spelled Kyyyyyvv
Adrian Edwards
>>Russia only has 2 million draft age men between 18-29
It's more like 15 million.
Owen Reed
He didn't want to weaken his other fronts.
Hunter Harris
hence 40 billion so they can buy all our shit from us
Isaac Brown
You also can't expect a force of 500,000 let alone 200,000 to occupy and hold a country of 45 million people. That's just fucking retarded. You would need more than 2 million, but it's well known that Russia only has 2 million draft age men at a bare minimum. You can even subjugate a country with that many especially against a fully mobilized army.
Putin's just delaying the inevitable.
No, there was a massive drop in birth rates in the 90s when the Soviet Union collapsed. Russia also lies about population censuses.
youtu.be
Putin's knows this is his last chance to grab territory before the zoomers age out and he's left with a shrinking population
William Scott
Because it's expensive, also because they thought 200k would be enough. They'll look weak/foolish if they need half their army to conquer Ukraine.
>but they already look foolish
I mean to other world leaders, Twitter thinking Russia sucks doesn't matter. Modi and Xi do.
Leo Young
> russia doesn't have enough tropes
then I'll gladly donate some of mine, baka
Owen Perez
>What do you honestly think this war is all about?
Winning, sir.
Samuel Ramirez
>unless they want to send in human waves.
Considering all the anti-tank weapons, infantry is prob the best option.
Nolan Parker
It's so that they can make a movie about it starring black people as Azov soldiers.
Oliver Lopez
I doubt that they really expected to win just by riding in tanks, more like 'okay, we didn't take Kiev in two weeks, let's destroy main Ukrainian army in Donbass then'. See how risk and casualty averse are they with planes and helicopters since day 1.
It's not that hard actually, there's also 400k National guard, so controlling it would be easy, collaborators too. And It's not like you have to hold every single square mile, so far I haven't seen much partisan warfare, only regular army. But Ukraine is not fielding that much.
Jacob Gonzalez
You don't need 2 million but you need at least 2:1 for a an invasion to offset defense advantage.
At this point I'm not sure if the Kremlins leadership Goal isnt massacring the Russian Army and DEATROYING Russia.
This is incompetence bordering on criminality and treason.
Ian Parker
>>Russia only has 2 million draft age men between 18-29
Draft men and women aged 60+
Blake Walker
>Russia only has 2 million draft age
No, those are the number in their reserves. They have 8 million in the 18-29 age range alone.
What they don’t have is readily available equipment for them, and it would take months to get their stored tanks and APCs out of mothballs and combat worthy.
Julian Edwards
Of course Russia tried to collapse Ukrainian army. It didn't happened. Now we can just fight until last hohol. Quality of their troops will fall as they replace actual army with kids
Oliver Smith
Its about the lack of quality pussy available in Russia. Since the fall of the soviet union there has been a marked decline in the quantity and quality of pussy produced in the region. If Putin had invested more in the pussy infrastructure of his country he wouldn't need to send expeditionary forces to get it elsewhere.
Dominic Parker
>I doubt that they really expected to win just by riding in tanks,
The plan was to remove the government and reinstate the Russian authority. Because they truly believed the Ukrainians wanted to be Russian.
If you look into more details, the VDV are just riot police, more flat than function. When the Ukrainian army intercepted them they got wiped out. They aren't the special forces people believed they were.
>It's not that hard actually
It is absolutely that hard. Russian doesn't have experience in this. Americans tried occupying Iraq and Afghanistan, those are countries where the population density are closer together so it would theoretically be easier than Ukraine, and America still struggled.
Ukraine is flat and sparsely populated.
Which leads to
>It's not like you have to hold every single square mile,
Yes you absolutely fucking have to. And this is why Russian troops are massacing small villages with old people because those are staging grounds for defenders. Owning roads and cities means fuckall.
>But Ukraine is not fielding that much.
Attacking logistics is the smarter move. Which is why, again, thinking you don't have to watch ever square mile is wrong. That's how Ukrainians went behind the questionably large "occupied" territory to destroy fuel trucks.
Pic related is disputed but that's practically what Russian actually controlled.
Joshua Peterson
>you need at least 2:1 for a an invasion to offset defense advantage
The Russians have been making good use of force multipliers - attack helicopters, ground attack aircraft, cruise missiles, etc. - to counter Ukraine’s numerical advantage, and achieving local numerical superiority by pinning down Ukrainian units with screening forces and artillery.
It’s more of a slog than attacking with massive numerical superiority, and requires a lot of hands-on work by the officers on the ground, but it’s a viable strategy if what you’ve got is all you’re going to get.
Hunter Long
how are you enjoying those tartar genes, ukrop?