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Can't sleep so I guess I will get an early start on today's essay. Yesterday's blew up and caught me completely flatfooted as I did not consider it among my best works but it obviously resonated. That probably says more about you my readers than it does about me. Nuance is
important and the way I pointed out that Russia is using mobilization to affect an ethnic cleansing of its own minority populations hit a nerve. It shows that despite all the Russia Fuck OFF flying around twitter my readers at least realize that a big chunk of the Russian
population are actually captive peoples and only have value to Kleptograd in the provision of slave soldiers. WE see this idea that its someone else's duty to fight for Russia in the long lines of Russian men trying to flee. Now that they might get a notice (vs minorities being
So the long awaited "Russian Mobilization" has arrived. No, its not partial, that is poppycock. Its phased which is what I predicted. So lets dig into what it means shall we? There are 3 big take aways and then a bunch of ancillaries.
First, and the most beneficial to the Russian Army is the stop loss effect. Kontracti can no longer quit, contracts no longer expire and thousands of refuseniks now face prison if they do not submit. From a manpower perspective this is the peach, but there is a poison pit in the
center. This will not be good for morale. Telling a soldier he can't leave when he already wants to, when morale is at a low ebb and battlefield success seems impossible and that his fate by remaining is to join his comrades on sunflower duty is going to wreck cohesion. Putin's
