Russian army recruitment centres in Moscow see five-fold drop in applicants

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1. Good
   Now lets Go to 0

2. Maybe they realized that rubles are useless when you are dead.

3. Putin needs around 50,000 a month to replace the current rate of casualties?

4. Now to even it out with a five fold increase in arrests

5. Only 5x?!

6. This is what happens in a war economy where the army and the industry have to compete for men and the worker pool is severely constrained due to demographics and bad health.

   “Do I go for a job making munitions for X rubles per month (X being a really good number), or do I go to war for 3X the rubles and maybe die?”

   Not a hard choice.

7. 40 per day really isn’t much.

   And half of them foreign. 

   If this is accurate it’s terrible numbers.

8. Probably because most of the willing applicants are now pushing daisies.

9. It’s become known that they often don’t get paid .

10. Russia, some months ago, was recruiting more than it’s casualties. Or at least claimed to be, which I doubted. You don’t need 12,000 North Korean troops if you’re meeting your goals.

    Anyways. That would be more than the roughly 45,000 casualties Ukraine has been inflicting. (1,500 a day x 30 days a month). So let’s be generous and call it 50k recruits a month.

    They are now down to 10k a month rate, and still losing 45k a month. Say Ukraine is vastly overestimating their inflicted casualties, and some aren’t as bad as they thought or Russia pushes them back into service anyways….30k a month?

    Russia is still seeing a 20k a month deficit on replacement rates for manpower. If that continues for even a couple a months……collapse.

11. There’s a limit to the number of people who will sign up to do this for money, and I think they will soon run out of those people.

12. People were applying? Thought they were being press-ganged in.

13. The word is spreading, that’s why

14. Fivefold drop is just weird. 87% fall?

15. The propaganda had been that Trump was in it for Russia but it’s clear the US is “meh” on the overall conflict. Now there is no hope for the Russians. Why enlist?

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