• twinnie@feddit.uk
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    4 months ago

    This doesn’t mean they’ll have 150,000 new troops, it means they’ll have 150,000 new job openings. They probably haven’t filled the other 300,000 conscriptions they listed ages ago.

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      4 months ago

      It’s literally the first sentence in the article…

      Russia has finished drafting 150,000 conscripts into its military, its Defense Ministry said

      Emphasis added.

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      4 months ago

      Yep, read yesterday that a bunch of Indians signed up for guard duty in Russia and are now on the front line where 13/15 of the non Russians in the company have been killled

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    4 months ago

    I like how the cannon fodder is touching his arm like:

    “Well, old friend, you’ve helped me beat off oh so much. It’s going to suck losing you to a mine, or an explosive drone, or an explosive drone with a mine attached.”

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      4 months ago

      We are. And drone production is something they have down pretty good. I’d suggest now rolling out additional E-war solutions to counter the Russian drones.