Quote (ofthevoid @ Oct 27 2022 02:18am)
The notion that Russia has morale issues and issues with fielding well trained men while Ukraine doesn't is nonsense really.
Clearly you haven't seen what Russia has been fielding lately for the most part, parade troops in Moscow do not take part in the "Special Military Operation"
Quote (ofthevoid @ Oct 27 2022 02:18am)
Realistically at this point, over 10 million people have left Ukraine.
Clearly at this point nobody has exact figures, with figure of 8 million being the most reasonable and well supported estimate.
Quote (ofthevoid @ Oct 27 2022 02:18am)
Now of course that's going to be slanted towards women, elderly and kids but still plenty of men have left as well. That's around ~1/4 of the country. You also have the fact that in that 41 million you have people that are being counted from Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk and based on political affiliation and ethnic composition they would actually be fighting with the Russians.
Wrong again, 41 million was with Crimea excluded. Ethnicity has very little to do with anything.
Quote (ofthevoid @ Oct 27 2022 02:18am)
In contrast, when mobilization was announced in Russia, I heard something like 700k Russian residents leaving out of fear of being drafted, this is out of 143+million people...
Heard from who? FSB which has all reasons to bs and lower the numbers stated that far more left in early 2022 alone, that was before mobilization was announced.

Quote (ofthevoid @ Oct 27 2022 02:18am)
If Ukraine was to try to mobilize 4+ million that'd probably mean that you'd have huge swaths of society being disrupted. At that point it's all hands on deck regardless of age, profession, willingness.. It would be sad to see tbh and we should all hope some agreement comes before that type of masses are being sent to war.
Thats what maximum mobilization capacity is, with economy fully pledged to support military first.
Quote (ofthevoid @ Oct 27 2022 04:25am)
Plenty of Ukrainian men fled the country going rate was 5k euros to be allowed to cross the border. Also brush up on your English, I don't think you know what the word tirade means.
Why not 6,000 or 5500? Is it something you also heard?