Oh shyt you’re popping off I love when you get all libbed up
This isn’t StarCraft or Command & Conquer. Untrained or barely trained troops aren’t going to just Zerg rush into a war and turn the tide. They’re going to get slaughtered, run away, or refuse orders. If Russia were being invaded I could at least understand it. Defensive positions vs offensive positions. But these guys will be tasked with marching towards fortified towns and cities while artillery shells land around them. And given that Russia doesn’t properly maintain their vehicles we will see another repeat of Feb/March when multiple trucks and tanks were rendered useless due to mud this winter. So many troops will be on foot, assaulting positions…
The result is likely to be more of the same. “You have a deep tradition of intelligence professionalism,” says Sir John Sawers, a former chief of mi6, “and like a gangrene on top of it is this growing corruption.” Maxim, the former fsb officer, agrees. “Back in the 1990s and 2000s there was a kgb touch to it. We stayed under the radar,” he says. The breaking point for him was when new graduates of the fsb academy were spotted driving a luxury Mercedes around Moscow. Ukraine is an opportunity to rebuild, he says. “They need to substitute this money world with something bigger. I’m not sure how they are going to do