The Russian Army on the Eve of the Invasion of Ukraine, Mass Matters

I was surprised by the opening gambit, as I think we know, had Kiev in its sights within a week or thereabouts. But mass matters and whatever else the Russian army on the eve of the invasion of Ukraine had mass. It seems that Putin's thinking as well in his new year's speech, he made it clear that he's pinning really his political future on the success or something he can cause success at the next phase of the war in Ukraine. That depends very largely on numbers, it seems. There's a lot of talk about another round of troop raising, maybe to the level of 500,000 new troops. What difference do you think that will make to the course