Russia Calls Up its Reserves and the West Loses its Collective Sh*t

Russia Calls Up the Reserves and the West Loses its Collective Shit

 The West-backed Kiev Putsch regime has spent the last few months building up an enormous new army, it claims a million-men strong, though its probably half that, and most of it with no military experience and next to no training. But it has been said that in military matters, that quantity has a quality all its own.

 It has built up this massive amount of cannon fodder by a policy of mass forced conscription. Though its never called such in the Western MSM, instead referred to as “mobilization”. Albeit a mobilization that has seen the regime forbid its own male citizens from 16-60 years of age from leaving the country, and regularly sending its brownshirts to raid nightclubs, cafes, and beaches looking for more cannon fodder.

Meanwhile the Russian intervention force has up till now been self-limited by the legalistic terms of the Kremlin’s “Special Military Operation”  to just some 150,000 Russian troops, supplemented by some 40-50,000 former east Ukrainian militia from the Donbass, who have been fighting to free themselves for some eight long years now. The Russian intervention force was only around 10% of Russia’s actual million-man strong active duty military, much less its 2 million available reserves, or its 25 million total pool of fighting-age men with previous military service and experience.

Under the direction of Pentagon planning and wargaming, the Kiev regime came up with a strategy to put this relative manpower advantage to good use – namely a counter-offensive attacking everywhere at once, or in quick succession, across multiple axes and with broad fronts, with what amounts in large part to quick-moving Diversion Reconnaissance Groups and mechanized human wave attacks seeking to envelop Russian units and exhausting Russian aviation, rocket systems and artillery trying to protect undermanned defensive everywhere lines at once, while continuing the primary offensive in Donetsk at the same time.

This Kiev/Washington strategy was a complete failure in the south of Ukraine in Kherson, where Russia has built up defenses and amassed fires and mobile reserves, leading to horrible casualities among the Kiev regime’s forces and minimal territorial gains.

But - just the threat of it, outmaneuvered the Russian military in the lightly-garrisoned north of the Kharkov region, forcing them to prioritize, sacrifice the North, and withdraw with almost no fighting to avoid being enveloped and overrun, handing Kiev a major territorial and propaganda victory.

The Kiev regime forces for this counter-offensive strategy were largely armed by the flood of Western military aid, the sizeable gear that the Kiev regime started this conflict with almost being almost completely destroyed at this point, leading to the situation where the self-limited Russian intervention force was in effect fighting all of NATO’s collective military might and technology. It is just conscripted Ukrainian proxies doing the dying.

Now the Kremlin has finally responded by doing what many Russian politicians and military analysts , including myself, have long called for, since the beginning really – calling up some 300, 000 of its 2 million reserves, which has been referred to as a “partial mobilization”.

 All of these rostered reserves however, unlike the Kiev regime’s mass forced conscription, are recent military veterans, having completed their active duty status in the last ten years, all having combat experience, and all of them still regularly being required to show up several times a year to practice and drills as reserves.

This calling up of the reserves has been greeted with outrage by Western governments, and attacked by the Western MSM and commentariat in a furious infowar onslaught. It has been dismissed and lambasted as a desperate sign of Russian military weakness.That a small number of those called up refused to serve and fled the country, and that small protests occured against the call up - was exaggerated ridiculously and out of all proportion.

The Western media and commentariat with their 5 minute memories seems to forget that when the US invaded and occupied Iraq and Afghanistan, in recent undeclared foreign wars, that the US military reserves were also called up, and in fact nearly half of all US troops eventually deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan were reserves or national guard - more than     300, 000 total deployments.

They also forget that at least some 5,500 US troops refused to fight and deserted initially, many fleeing the country to Canada or Europe for asylum, and that total US desertion for the two conflicts reached at least 20,000, nearly an 80% increase.
And they forget that millions of Americans across the country protested in the streets against the invasion of Iraq.

The sheer hypocrisy in the two narratives for the Russian military now calling up ITS reserves is staggering. But – its different when WE do it, right?

Well there is a saying in Russia, “the dog barks, but the caravan passes on”.

 The West is scared. This will solve the Russian intervention force’s  manpower shortage in Ukraine and be a true game changer.

And they know it.

Let the West bark on, impotently.

The kid’s gloves are at last coming off, and a whole new war is now just beginning.