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The Hidden Crisis Destroying Russia's Army - Paul Warburg [View all]
Russia's military is struggling to find recruits. The only way to convince people to join their war against Ukraine is to offer them excessively high military recruitment bonuses and salaries. But these efforts, while a short term fix for producing manpower, have an effect on the quality of Russia's soldiers that Russia may not have properly anticipated. And with a declining Russian economy, these payments can't be kept up forever. What happens next?
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