russia is not escalating their "not a war" by:Apparently there's classified parts to that callup and it's up to a million. They'll probably station another 300k soldiers in the next few weeks. Not to relieve the exhausted ~300k they already sent (60kish are dead or injured) but to send them to the slaughter. The other 700k I would imagine they'd piece meal throughout the months as they train them with... farmers? Since all their colonels, generals and officers are at the war front already.
- calling up 300,000 reservists
- pretty directly threatening to nuke NATO countries
- holding sham elections to claim parts of Ukraine as Russia insisting that will have to lead to an immediate cease fire or "their borders" are being threatened....
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/putin-announces-partial-mobilization-russian-military-ukraine-war-rcna48585
ffs i hate men with delusions of grandeur.
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