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I know, it's a brilliant system: Send your soldiers to force unarmed men in the other end of your empire go fight for you in Ukraine. I've seen some stats showing that now %10 of military age Tuva people fought in Ukraine. In Moscow that was about %0.2.

Russia has a moat here, Ukraine and the West can't pull anything of that sort.

Also, the mentality of Russian people or slavs in general is very prone to conspiratorial thinking. They are also very unambitious, only motivated by ideas about glory and don't make long term life plans and assume the role given to them.

Its very weird, the western mindset can't comprehend this. I've been risen in a slavic communist country that used to be aligned with USSR.

To this day I have relatives who are offended by the west despite living in EU, having their life quality depended on the success of EU but root for Russia to win and "show the arrogant west who's the boss". So I don't think that Putin will have human resources problem ever, as long as maintains his image of the tough guy who teaches the west a lesson. Russophilia is also widespread in many countries, even in EU.

>>mrtksn+(OP)
> Russia has a moat here, Ukraine and the West can't pull anything of that sort

The West is the moat. Ukraine’s war production is almost entirely in the West.

> I have relatives who are offended by the west despite living in EU, having their life quality depended on the success of EU but root for Russia to win and "show the arrogant west who's the boss

Yeah, sort of like the most-fervent proponents of American doomerism frequently being Americans.