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> they have 24,700,000 left of fighting age

Without equipment, logistics and ammo to support it it's a dead weight. Also, it's very interesting that you omitted Gulf War, which would be the most similar conflict in terms of power dynamics. 4th by strength military in the world in war against large coalition of countries that is led by USA.



>Without equipment, logistics and ammo to support it it's a dead weight.

Russia is an industrial country. They managed to build more tanks than anybody in WWII and this was while being invaded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_industry_in_World_War_I...

>Also, it's very interesting that you omitted Gulf War, which would be the most similar conflict in terms of power dynamics.

Most of the Iraqi soldiers surrendered as soon as they saw coalition forces. Only the Republican Guard remained to fight and they were only around 75K. I doubt the Russians will surrender en masse like the Iraqi regular army did.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iraqis-surrendering-in-hordes




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