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Putin said "special military operation" and so far it looks like he meant it. One gets the feeling it is being shown as larger than it is. A country like Russia can live with 10 dead soldiers a day indefinitely.

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But the land army can't. Also it's more like 20.

Far smaller fatalities than this (3 per day) caused a severe recruitment crisis for the US Army which had a larger population to draw from. — And which also had part-time reservists and guardsmen to lean on which RuMil doesn't.

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Isn’t one month’s training really skimping, assuming the regional troops are young men being recruited from civilian life? Or do a lot of them have prior experience?

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A lot of them do, but it's not a requirement. Yes, a month is skimping it. Especially when you consider these are also tank and artillery battalions, but that's how it is.

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Has anyone seen "media" reports that a UKR counter-offensive has made stunning advances? - 70 sq km of territory regained in eastern UKR - I saw that on Yahoo - Sept 8 - AM USA local time - a "serious blow if true and if territory can be held" goes the narrative.

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Would be cool and legend-building to have Kovalev leading the Chelyabinsk detachments in battle, but sadly the guy has decided to stay in the West, even after they robbed him of a couple of fights with Ward, and tried to send him to prison for righteously slapping a wench around after he got wronged.

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