From Reuters:
“Struggling in Ukraine, Russia
paves way to sign up over-40s for army”
In a sign of Russia's urgent need
to bolster its war effort in Ukraine, parliament said on Friday it would
consider a bill to allow Russians over 40 and foreigners over 30 to sign up for
the military. The website of the State Duma, parliament's lower house, said the
move would enable the military to utilise the skills of older professionals. "For
the use of high-precision weapons, the operation of weapons and military
equipment, highly professional specialists are needed. Experience shows that
they become such by the age of 40–45," it said. Currently, only Russians
aged 18-40 and foreigners aged 18-30 can enter into a first contract with the
military.
Russia has suffered huge setbacks
and heavy losses of men and equipment in the 86-day-old war, in which Ukraine
has mobilised practically its entire adult male population. Despite taking full
control of the ruins of Mariupol, Moscow remains far from its objective of
seizing all of the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. "Clearly, the Russians are in trouble.
This is the latest attempt to address manpower shortages without alarming their
own population. But it is growing increasingly difficult for the Kremlin to
disguise their failures in Ukraine," said retired U.S. General Ben Hodges,
a former commander of U.S. Army forces in Europe.
Jack Watling, a land warfare
specialist at the British security and defence think tank RUSI, said the
Russian military was running short of infantry. "Russia needs to stabilise
manning in its military units in Ukraine and generate new units if it is to
improve its position on the ground," he said. "This will be a slow
and complicated process, but can be accelerated by mobilising people with
existing skills and military experience." The Duma said the proposed
legislation would also make it easier to recruit civilian medics, engineers and
operations and communications specialists. Separately, Russian Defence Minister
Sergei Shoigu said on Friday that Russia was forming 12 military units in its
western military district in response to rising threats there, citing NATO
membership bids by Finland and Sweden.
^ Putin and his Nazi Russians are
just following what Nazi Germany did during World War 2 (as Putin as from the
beginning.)
Shortly before their defeat in
1945 Hitler officially ordered all Boys and Men from 16-60 (unofficially Boys
as young as 6 and Men as old as 80) into the Volkssturm to fight. In reality
they were really only used as cannon-fodder.
Officially Putin is only allowing
those over 40, but I wouldn't be surprised if soon the very young will also be
allowed - they are already being brainwashed into the Putin Youth (similar to
the Hitler Youth.) If they are used it will only be as cannon-fodder.
Along the same War lines: The US
today is starting to create a Marshall Plan for the postwar reconstruction of
Ukraine (similar to what we did for Europe after World War 2.)
We already have restarted World
War 2's Lend Lease Program for Ukraine.
While Putin and Russia prepares
for their final defeat (as Hitler did) the United States is preparing for the
final victory (as we did back in 1945.)
You would think Putin would want
to follow the guidebook of a winner, but it seems he was sick the day his High
School Teacher taught his class that Hitler lost and Germany was completely
defeated. ^
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