positive_charging t1_je4o5ho wrote
I thought in like december he was running out of troops and was using prisoners n all https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/23/russia-troops-wagner-convicts-ukraine/
ShadyRedditInvestor t1_je4owka wrote
Turns out the convict meat shields were even too much of a liability for Wagner. Being "out of troops" doesn't mean you can't raise/train more, it just means that the current force you're deploying is no longer combat effective for any number of reasons. The winter operational pause was enough time for them to at least plug the gaps.
Problem is, if he wants to mobilize more conscripts, sooner or later he's going to have to start dipping into manpower from the Moscow region, which is where his political alliances are. They've been avoiding conscripting from those regions like the plague.
oddkoffee t1_je76712 wrote
that last paragraph was something that i hadn’t ever thought about. that could be a very interesting scenario.
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