VIDEO: Semi-Sober Recruits Inducted into Russian Army

[pjcomix]

There has been a mass callup to induct new recruits into the Russian army. However, as you can see the quality of many of these recruits is of a semi-sober nature.

https://youtu.be/B5prZVW_pms

[SVPete]

I don't know whether Putin is sufficiently uninformed that he thinks raw recruits can be sent to the front lines with just a few weeks' training, or this is part of his "plan" for his war lasting another 6 or more months. Given the attrition of Russia's modern and sort-of-modern tanks and personnel carriers, I wonder if these new recruits and activated reservists will be stuck trying to use early 70s and older equipment. Or maybe Putin's plan is to overwhelm Ukraine with cannon-fodder tsunamis.

[DefiantSix]

If I were being inducted into the Russian Army after the phenomenal "success" of Putin's Ukrainian smash-&-grab, you could bet your ass I wouldn't go sober, either.

For a nation that learned first-hand the lessons taught by the Blitzkreig, it's become fairly evident that at least the current crop of Russian flag officers hasn't internalized those lesons. Zhukov - to say nothing of Joe Stalin himself - would have started shooting subordinates who hadn't achieved complete air superiority 6 to 8 months into a fight like this, with the numeric advantages the Russians have already brought to the field. Hell, the Ukrainians still have many of their military airfields intact and unmolested. Back in the cold war days, the generals on our side of the Fulda Gap expected to have use of such fixed, unmovable targets as air bases for no more than 24 hours after the "festivities" kicked off.

The stagnant nature of Russia's attempted armed robbery of the Ukraine doesn't bode well. In this case, time is on the side of the Ukrainian defenders.

[enslaved1]

If I were being inducted into the Russian Army after the phenomenal "success" of Putin's Ukrainian smash-&-grab, you could bet your ass I wouldn't go sober, either.

For a nation that learned first-hand the lessons taught by the Blitzkreig, it's become fairly evident that at least the current crop of Russian flag officers hasn't internalized those lesons. Zhukov - to say nothing of Joe Stalin himself - would have started shooting subordinates who hadn't achieved complete air superiority 6 to 8 months into a fight like this, with the numeric advantages the Russians have already brought to the field. Hell, the Ukrainians still have many of their military airfields intact and unmolested. Back in the cold war days, the generals on our side of the Fulda Gap expected to have use of such fixed, unmovable targets as air bases for no more than 24 hours after the "festivities" kicked off.

The stagnant nature of Russia's attempted armed robbery of the Ukraine doesn't bode well. In this case, time is on the side of the Ukrainian defenders.

All information related to Russia and frankly Ukraine should be taken with a grain of salt, but I've seen several fairly reliable sources that say most of Russia is getting nothing but government propaganda and think the war is going great for them.  So, the video may just be someone's joke, it may be a real sign of Russia's desperation that most of their citizens never see, or it may be somewhere inbetween.  Shoot, it may be a false flag Putin is throwing out to distract the rest of the world.  There's sooooo much psy-ops going on at so many levels from so many sides in this conflict it's always hard to tell what to believe.