Summary
Vladimir Putin ordered the conscription of 160,000 men—the largest draft since 2011—despite ongoing U.S.-mediated ceasefire talks with Ukraine.
The move raises doubts about Russia’s commitment to diplomacy, with Kyiv accusing Moscow of using talks to buy time for battlefield gains in Sumy, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia.
Ukraine claims Russia intends to escalate the war, citing forced contracts for conscripts. Losses remain high on both sides, with Russia reportedly losing over 100,000 troops in 2024 alone.
This isn’t for Ukraine.
This is for Europe.
I predict an uptick of Rafale, EF2000, and JAS-39 sales in Europe, and that the models offered will be wired for nuclear delivery should the need arise.
I feel awful that our government is breaking bad over on this side of the pond… but at the same time, I think open violent revolt and civil war would be a believable scenario if orangeboi actually tries to Molotov-Ribbentrop all of fucking Europe with Putin. So I don’t think he’s gonna actually try that.
He 100% will or has done that, remember the secret protocol was secret.
The other shoe always drops later.
160K isn’t gonna cut that though. He’ll need several hundred K more if he realistically wants to actually have any gains at all.
I think Vladdy knows that the threat of war is much more of a nuisance to Europe than actually fighting and losing soldiers. This is just for threat posturing at borders.
The real war is being fought with unmarked soldiers, unsuspicious russian cargo vessels, heavily propagandising one country (Hungary), while leaving others virtually alone (France) to saw division, etc.
Nobody wins a war from the west. They know they have to go asymmetric, and they are, and the longer it takes Europe to realise that, the longer they will suffer. They also know wars are over 50% psychological.
while leaving others virtually alone (France)
You realize Orbán has been bankrolling Le Pen pretty hard, right?
Yep, but see what happened this week? France is a stupid country to try and get on your side from Russian perspective. They will always get drunk, revolt and then do a threesome with your women after they’re finished chopping the head off the invaders.
ooooo those French! ;)
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Vive la Republique 🇫🇷
Yeah, but Le Pen’s party is still going strong. I wouldn’t call it a win yet.
Maybe, maybe not. Either way Europe should be well prepared in case it is.
Attacking Europe with conscripts and depleted hardware storage? I can’t see how that could fail.
They’re Russian, stop trying to bring reason into it.
I’m sure they genuinely think that now the US will attack Europe and they can invade on 2 fronts.
Russians are just insane morons.
What an ignorant comment. Just because your Russian doesn’t automatically mean your an insane moron based on where you were born and raised. There’s people from all walks of life in all countries. Not everyone or everything is tied in a black and white box. Plenty of Russians are against war and the current geopolitcal climate.
And they will be my brothers.
As soon as they war is over they return all lands and prisoners, and pay full reparations.
Otherwise, we need to help Ukraine kill as many of their kids as possible, and we should watch the videos and laugh. :)
They’re Russian, stop trying to bring reason into it.
Oh, absolutely. However, insanity can help only that much with invasion.
I’m sure they genuinely think that now the US will attack Europe and they can invade on 2 fronts.
Red, white and bluelandia wants a word with you. Do you really think it’s impossible? At this point I’m not that sure anymore.
Russians are just insane morons.
I’d disagree to some extent. Call Putin what you want (and rightly so), but he is not a moron (as opposite to the Orange one). The common people is that or just don’t have a choice.
Putin was brilliant, his moves until 2008 were a perfection of geopolitical chess.
After that he completely lost the plot, his terror at the rise of China completely broke his mind, he felt he had to show strength less Russia become a vassal state and resource depot for the CPC.
And he wasn’t wrong, but his response was stupid, and relied on Europe continuing to follow Merkel’s ‘nice doggy’ policies.
Now he thinks he can act anyway, because his sponsored right-wing groups will cause enough dissent that nobody will stop him from taking the baltics.
Poppycock. Russia would never invade the EU or a NATO member, I don’t know why people always raise this silly idea. For starters there’s no gain, for seconds they’d get their ass handed to them.
They aren’t rational, otherwise they would have waited to invade Ukraine till 2024 while cashing fuel checks.
