🤔 Despite its losses, Russia is recruiting 25,000 to 30,000 new soldiers a month — roughly as many as are exiting the battlefield. That has allowed its army to keep sending wave after wave of troops at Ukrainian defenses, – NYT

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1. Its a matter of who holds on the longest… how long can they afford to lose that many men.

2. Yes but the Russians are running out of every type of equipment and will mot have anything left by the end of the year. Even if somecsre replaced they can’t make artillery barrels or tank or optics or many other key parts inc helicopters, planes etc

3. Where does that estimate originate?

   If it’s from russia we can ignore it.

   This “25,000 to 30,000 new recruits per month!!!!11” claim been a troll farm script meme for months, along with “The russian army is learning and adapting!!!” and other ludicrous bullshit.

4. Even if is true, they cannot replace equipment at the same rate.

5. They may have the numbers but the competence (which was never high) will be tanking and these new Russian recruits will probably never come home.

6. On the bright side of this shitshow is that the average IQ levels in the world is rising as Russian soldiers are dying.

   after 2 and a half year of atrocious losses there are still Russians willing to put on the uniform to be hungry, cold and finally dead in Ukraine.

   Is this Putin’s solution to the plummeting national IQ levels after the brain drain?

   Boosting the remaining Russian population’s IQ by removing the bottom dregs?

7. Russia also had to ramp up signup bonuses to 650% of what they paid soldiers at the start of the war. Equal to an average annual salary

   In the poor parts of Russia (no toilets, no washing machines, etc) that adds up to several years local wages.

   https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4741922-its-getting-harder-for-putin-to-find-russians-willing-to-die-for-him-in-ukraine/