Comments by "Posthumanist" (@thornelderfin) on "Putin's Partial Mobilisation: What the Hell is Happening?" video.

I wonder who will train these 300 000 Russians. Because 3 months ago Russia sent most of their military instructors to fight in Ukraine. Inexperienced soldiers will be asked to train even more inexperienced reservists... then I guess more than 1 month wouldn't make it any better anyway. Against battle hardened Ukrainians.
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@franknoble5335 Keep dreaming about T-90s (only few hundred were ever built, mostly in India and Egypt under license from Russia). T-14 has NO MASS PRODUCTION yet (planned for this year). So only 19 were ever built (T-14). For Red Square parades (and even there another tank had to pull T-14 because the engines failed - you can search the video from that humiliation). There are no T-90 and T-14 to roll out.
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@panan7777 Conscripts in Russia get abused (in all ways) and have to slave for the officers. It's absolutely horrendous. That's why most educated men from Moscow and Petersburg avoid the service with bribes or some medical excuse. It is considered "low class" if you cannot dodge the military service. Those 300 000 will be untrained, inexperienced and unmotivated - so on par with DNR and LNR militias. On modern battlefield with drones, satellites, massive artillery and precise rockets, the numbers don't mean that much anymore. We just need to provide more modern weapons to Ukraine.
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@somedudeonline1936 Their nukes will be in same condition.
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@0816M3RC How dare you! Russian tanks do not have a design flaw. The exploding flying turret is not a flaw, it's a feature of convertible tank for hot summer days.
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@loveunitedhateglazer7033 Don't be worried about the nukes. Nukes need very expensive maintenance every 5 years, replacement every 10 years, and very expensive facilities to do so (Russia closed the last one in 2003). Russia has not even tested their old nukes in 30 years (no nuke test since soviet times). Even Russia doesn't know whether their derelict old nukes still work or not (absolute majority will fail - it's just physics). And I am not even counting in the absolutely abhorrent levels of corruption and stealing in Russian military. Russian state TV makes nuclear threats every thursday... that's all they are, just empty threats. Russian doctrine is to make everyone so afraid of you so they don't test you (like poker, but with fear).
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@thiagoribeiro021 Food, weapons and ammo passed down from man to man one way... and waching machines the other way
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@CloudWalkBeta Russia no longer has "elite soldiers". They were sent ahead in the first day of the invasion and have been used at the very edge of front lines... over 6 months, all of them died (nobody is superhuman and this is not a video game... Ukrainian "elites" are also mostly dead). There are just battle hardened regular soldiers left. If the newbies replace existing logistics soldiers, then those also have no combat experience, they've been running the logistics this whole time. That won't help much.
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@trickybarrel444 You say they may swap the 300 000 new soldiers for border patrol or logistics soldiers - but that won't help much, because those soldiers also have no combat experience ... They will send them to front lines to die, because that has been Russian doctrine for more than 200 years now - "Nas mnogo!" (we are many) But the world has changed - cheap mini-drones dropping mortar shells right into enemy trenches, large drones, satellites, precision rocket artillery ... numbers don't play such a role anymore.
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