Pentagon Spox: Increased Russian Mobilization ‘Not Surprising’ Given ‘Staggering’ Losses In Ukraine

Pentagon spokesperson Pat Ryder was asked about Russia’s plan to grow their armed forces to 1.5 million men amid high casualties in Ukraine.

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27 comments

  4. say 500,000 russians dead as these air force general who only smoked shepherds with guns n civilians in his entire career wishes ….. how many ukrainians died as the leaked pentagon report had 7 ukrainians to one russian and 10 russian shells for one ukrainian shell .

  6. This guy doesn’t have a clue or is full of sheet. Take your pick. Russia is utterly destroying the Ukraine military proxy for NATO. Russia has had minimal losses much to the horror of the scumbag globalists who started this fiasco.

    Now Russia is preparing to take on NATO, the military arm of the belligerent, globalized west.

  8. Perfect logic: they got more and more troops because they got staggering losses. Yepp.
    Totally doesn't mean they get way more troops then their casaulties… nope.

  12. LOL. Same "losses" as Ukraine , but Ukraine have no more men while RU can recruit half a Ukraine Army every year…. recruit ….while Ukraine has to arrest men off the street.

  19. They sure did twist/skew that around. There are far more killed or wounded Ukrainian soldiers than there are Russian soldiers, get real.

  21. Putin is not mobilizing for Ukraine but rather for the inevitable war with NATO. If the US thinks this proxy war will go on forever then they are mistaken

  23. The US is being derelict by not appropriately escalating in response, such as lifting ATACMS restrictions. This is a golden opportunity. If Putin wants Ukraine out of Russia, there is a peaceful solution — leave Ukraine. Not responding is appeasement.

    Putin is escalating and the US does not respond. So what is the US's plan? To hope that Ukraine can withstand his military aggression until his regime collapses?

    Putin's mobilization is all about sustaining his aggression. His thinking is, like his propaganda said, 'War is good for Russia'. This reflects his Marxist roots. The West is not listening, nor is it appropriately responding.

    Not responding makes America look dim-witted, weak-willed, and morally bereft, and all in the face of pure, blatant, and cynical evil, cynical as in, 'Oh, the US is bad, so we can be bad', even though their respective evils do not even compare, America's being soft evil (cluelessness and social insanity) and Russia's being hard evil (cluelessness, warmongering (with all of its associated evils) and murder).

  27. Well if Russia lost 350 thousand soldiers Ukraine what have they lost when this war started they had 600 thousand Azov Fascist troops suited booted trained armed by the Usa/NATO. Now there dragging them off the street to go and fight

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