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Ukraine’s HIMARS edge may not last: Analysis of the war in Ukraine (July 10, 2022)

Geopolitics Decanted with Dmitri Alperovitch

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The Russians Are Trying to Get Ahead of the Russian Front

The russians are emptying out the prisons in some places, looking for people with tary experience and letting them go into the fight. This reminds me of what stallan did and wolwer to a to create penal battalions that he would send to the front from folks in the golags a. What's going on behind the scenes is that they're craning volunteer battalions. They don't use conscripts. They want to hire up men. We've talked about this many times, mitri. But it's ust sort of one of those kid bits that shows you that the Russian military is very heavily pressed for power.

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