Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ After spending years demanding a full mobilisation, Igor 'Strelkov' Girkin has come to the realisation that it would now be pointless: Ukraine's swarms of drones are capable of destroying "any number of infantry", and Russia doesn't even have enough weapons to arm them. ⬇️

2/ A reader of his Telegram channel asks:

"Question: there's increasing talk of possible mobilisation—do you think the government will take such a step? And is mobilisation necessary under the current circumstances?"

To which Girkin replies:

3/ "Mobilisation was needed in the spring of 2022, the spring of 2023, the spring of 2024, and perhaps even the spring of 2025. Now, mobilisation is catastrophically late. Currently, mobilisation, as perceived by the majority of the population, will yield no results.

4/ "What we need now is to mobilise the military economy. The time when we could defeat, trample, and drive the enemy into the ground with masses of infantry is, unfortunately, over. It existed in '22, '23, and '24. It's doubtful in '25, and it simply doesn't exist in '26.

5/ "We are currently waging a war of drones, capable of destroying any number of infantry deployed to battle on any front, no matter how broad.

6/ "The enemy has established such a production of drones and missiles in Europe and in so-called Ukraine itself that it is now capable of holding the front almost entirely with them, which is precisely what is happening.

7/ "This means that large masses of people and equipment will be destroyed without achieving any success. Time has been lost.

8/ "Therefore, mobilisation is, of course, necessary if we are to win at all, but not so much and not only mobilising people for the army, but mobilising people for the military industry, science, and production.

9/ "And only then, over time (not now, not tomorrow, and not the day after), will we achieve a military economy capable of competing with and winning the confrontation with the military economies of Europe and so-called Ukraine.

10/ "This kind of mobilisation is necessary if, I emphasise again, we want to win, and this desire has been absent since the very beginning of the Special Military Operation Although what the Kremlin actually wants is completely unclear.

11/ "[Presidential spokesman] Peskov's statement that Russia is only a few kilometers away from achieving a peaceful settlement in Donbas is, forgive me, a lie and a bluff. Well, which, strictly speaking, is nothing new for this person and the department he represents.

12/ "Even if we manage to overcome those few kilometers separating Russian forward positions from Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, and other cities of the Donetsk People's Republic, the war will not end at all, not even in the slightest.

13/ "Moreover, the enemy intends to wage it and has sufficient forces to do so. Therefore, whether it's a few kilometers, or even a few dozen kilometers, the war must be waged to win, and not to advance a few kilometers, strewing them with the corpses of our soldiers.

14/ "Right now, you can mobilise as many people as you want to the front, but they won't be able to turn the tide of the war. That moment has passed. I've been calling for mobilisation for four years.

15/ "Now I no longer call for the kind of mobilisation I spoke of earlier, because it's pointless. We, our economy, don't even have enough weapons to arm them." /end

Source:
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