Thread by @iamsneaker1

THREAD: Conscripts are ordinary Russians - many with families - who are ripped from their working lives.
They go from Novosibirsk or Omsk, to the frontlines of Donestk within a week.
No training. No tent. No uniform. No food or even water. No money. No morale.
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#Russia #Ukraine

Once on the front lines, they see truth of the situation: entire battalions have lost 70%, 80% or 90% of their men.
The carnage is insane.
Some conscripts die in a day.
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And the carnage is only worsening as
1) more Ukrainian troops get trained
2) more western weaponry arrives under Lend-lease
and 3) more Russian weaponry is captured by Ukraine from routed & fast-retreating Russian battalions.
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The conscripts immediately phone home and tell their families: "everything we have been told is a lie".

This news is therefore spreading - across Russia, direct from the front-lines:

The official story on state-controlled Russia One or Russia 24 television IS A LIE.
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The sane conscripts - who are by far the majority - then flee or rush to surrender.
They see online that Ukraine is treating PoW's humanely, with medicine, food & acceptable accommodation.
They would rather desert than die. And so they should.
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The Kremlin has got not even the first idea of how fast & how deeply this is backfiring.
Rushing to conscript 100k's of men & treating them this way, accelerates their loss of the war: both on the battlefield and in the information space.
Working population is decimated.
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We must all pray this war ends as soon as possible.
Then we can begin the horrendously painful process of truth & reconciliation.
It will take decades. Maybe even a century.
But It needs to start now.
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#StopTheWar #StopTheKilling

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