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the oil was sold per the rules that have always been used. There was nothing unique about a sale to an American based, foreign owned oil company.
How’s recruiting efforts in Russia going
Seems that a lot of the soldiers don’t have a choice.
My instinct that a lot of these reports are wishful thinking and overhyped by the media. For example in the early days of the war I doubt that there were all that many soldiers intentionally punching holes in their gas tanks to stall out in the convoy. Maybe a few did, the rumor got out and the media ran with it. Of course I have no data to back up or refute this (none of us do), this is simply my gut feeling. Either way I do think that Russia thought this would be easier than it's actually going, given that it's still going on 6 months later.
Yeah, the news we get is very slanted.My instinct that a lot of these reports are wishful thinking and overhyped by the media. For example in the early days of the war I doubt that there were all that many soldiers intentionally punching holes in their gas tanks to stall out in the convoy. Maybe a few did, the rumor got out and the media ran with it. Of course I have no data to back up or refute this (none of us do), this is simply my gut feeling. Either way I do think that Russia thought this would be easier than it's actually going, given that it's still going on 6 months later.
It's not surprising that the Right is systematically taking Putin's side on this, given the weird relationship between Putin and Trump, in combo with Ukraine's also weird relationship with Biden. Team sports politics makes the whole country dumb
So, about the same as Ukraine though Russia has 3-4x as many people.How’s recruiting efforts in Russia going
So does the Ukraine, but with 3-4x fewer people.
What makes you say that?
Great, doesn’t change the dismal demographic reality for Russia. Not sure how much taking over Ukraine is going to fix their problems.
Because we don’t have to force people to join the military.
It doesn’t. But it’s the same for the Ukraine. The Ukraine actually has lower TFR and more emigration. I expect this to increase when they join the EU.
Have you read anything about the Eastern front of WWI and WWII? Zeihan even explained this.
That’s not true anymore. Recruiting has fallen off a cliff.
Ok.
I don’t know who Zeihan is. My understanding is that Putin needs to take over the land to have more farmland and a more diversified to economy to hopefully reverse the demographic spiral.
Yet we haven’t brought the draft back yet so yes, that could indicate that Russia is in worse shape than us. Their demographics and replacement rate is lower, and because of that it’s been theorized that Putin is waging this war now because there won’t be enough young men in the future. I also doubt that the Russian military is as selective when it comes to physical or mental disqualifiers, so we could make more kids eligible by revisiting those standards (not saying we should). We certainly have them beat with obesity though
They want a buffer territory between them and the Germans who invaded Russia twice last century. 30 million people died on the Eastern front in WWII.
Could be. We have 330 million people but only 9% of our young people are willing to serve.
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That’s part of it, though the Russians are using their high fertility Saruakar - the Chechens.
American kids are much fatter than any I’ve seen in the countries I’ve traveled.I also doubt that the Russian military is as selective when it comes to physical or mental disqualifiers, so we could make more kids eligible by revisiting those standards (not saying we should). We certainly have them beat with obesity though
Has that proven true in the Ukraine? Did we prevail over the Pashtuns despite enormous technological advantages?
My point is that we need to fix our own institutions like the military and stop fomenting problems in other parts of the world.Which is why I find your posts on this odd . . . . You are posting about issues that the US military has in a Russia vs Ukraine war thread . . . That both of those countries suffer from as well at a worse rate. So I’m not really seeing the relevance here? Wouldn’t that be more appropriate in the Bugman thread
I made an error on the amount of oil sent to China from our SPR.