Yes, @Puzzlegal split this thread back in April to have a separate thread about nuclear escalation.
Huh, i don’t remember doing that. I’ll go look. I should probably move these posts, too…
Probably more along the lines of “militarizing” people with key skills so that they can’t quit on you or take holiday at an inconvenient time, and you can move them around at will, and order them to go into some damaged nuke plant in conquered territory or go fix a pipeline under fire and they can’t say no.
Not mobilizing women?? US, UKR, many western nations have significant percentages of the military as women, including combat positions. Thoughts on why Russia is not including women?
Too much blowback? Looks really weak (even weaker)?
The ‘night witches’ of WWII were feared by the Germans. Valentina Tereshkova was a cosmonaut a couple of decades before Sally Ride flew into space. AIUI, women were a crucial – and deadly – part of the Soviet forces in WWII. Why wouldn’t Putin include women?
You can kill off 90% of your male population without screwing over your population demographics too much. Not so much with the women.
It’s really disturbing when I can’t tell if you’re speaking as yourself or as your namesake.
The old Soviet Union was all about showing the west how egalitarian and progressive they were.
Modern Russia is about hypermasculinity and mysogyny.
Sometimes I have a hard time keeping the personas straight myself…
I’m mostly serious, though. Russia already has a serious demographic problem–not enough kids being born. Putin must know this at some level. And, well, men are largely expendable here.
I’d hope that Putin isn’t planning on losing 90% of the male population, but a percent or two? Sure, no problem. Better than losing the same number of potential babymakers.
The Soviet Union drafted men throughout it’s entire existance, but only drafted women during WWII and that was out of sheer desperation. Russia is no where neer that state. Putin genuinely feers the blowback from a mass mobilization; that’s why he’s held off as long as he could. However bad this is the blowback would be much worse, from both sexes, if women were being drafted.
Desperation? Impossible. Why some pundits here have said that the USSR whipped the Nazis all by themselves, with one hand tied behind their backs! They didn’t need the Allies or Lend lease or anything! 
The proof is… they lost more troops than anyone!!! 
Too much trouble. If this thread maintains its average of 30~40 posts per day, it will lock out in less than a week and we will be on RU v UA II in short order.
Putin has revived the Soviet-era title Mother Heroine for those who’ve had ten children survive to age one. There’s a million-ruble bounty paid, too.
"February 24. Ukrainians are googling how to make Molotov cocktail.
September 21. Russians are googling how to leave the country and how to get out of the army.
That’s the difference."
Am unmotivated army is not going to defeat a motivated people fighting for their lives without overwhelming logistical and technological superiority. Which the Russians don’t remotely have. Russia will lose.
Interesting leak of NATO intel shares with Ukraine.
And dear God they are giving details of the location or f individual SAM launchers.
https://twitter.com/intelpsf/status/1573236140781752320?s=46&t=9tHH76fALeAbr0JF7BzQaw
Yes, we’ve seen the videos of young Russian men being taken off to war with their hands tied behind their backs. Good to know they’ve had practice fighting this way.
Beregini are a Russian affiliated hacker group who have been known to forge documents so could be real or could be bullshit.
Why would it not be legit. During the Vietnam war the USSR often gave the NVA details of US movements. In the Soviet Afghan the same was done by the US and Pakistan to the Mujahideen.
In Korea, it was the Soviet airforce in direct confrontation with the USAF and USN/RN aircraft.
Do you think the US lost several thousand aircraft to enemy action in Vietnam because the Russians weren’t helping them?
Yeah, Beregini is 100% a Russian disinformation group.
If this is even close to being legit, it’s probably intended to create a pretext for Russian escalation against NATO, or to serve some other political purpose.