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To: Berlin_Freeper

When will the Russian serfs turn on their masters who are sending them off to die?


8 posted on 03/24/2015 12:03:18 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: free_life
When will the Russian serfs turn on their masters who are sending them off to die?

Without a draft, angst will be limited. That is why Putin doesn't want an all-out war with Ukraine, and his goals there are limited. An all-out war would require a sizable troop commitment, perhaps of hundreds of thousands of troops. Can't get there, while keeping his best troops on the Chinese border, without a draft.

9 posted on 03/24/2015 3:03:04 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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The US was able to gradually pacify Iraq with a relatively small force (~100K men) because Iraq is mostly a no-man’s-land of vast stretches of desert. Ukraine is mostly forest or arable land, with no shortage of places for guerrillas to hide. The US also had a massive technology advantage because of a much larger procurement budget. The Russians will need a much bigger force to pacify all of Ukraine than the US used in Iraq.


10 posted on 03/24/2015 3:22:30 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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