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Originally Posted by Damien
Russia could go into total-war mode. Might be damaging for him domestically but Russia might just throw more and more people at Ukraine.
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To what end? Surely you must see by now that the myth has been busted. Russia is not the second military power in the world. It is a third rate power that has spent a ton of money on equipment it doesn’t know how to use, and doesn’t even work reliably when they do use it.
It is incapable of manoeuvre; it is incapable of combined arms operations. If (and it’s a mighty big if) Putin declared war and general mobilisation, all he would achieve would be to send larger numbers of inadequately trained and equipped Russians to die, wherever the front line happened to be at that time.
Russia took many weeks to claim the ground Ukraine took back in just days, because once Ukraine was suitably equipped it had the willingness and the strategy to use it effectively.