Treason or stupidity: the meat grinds on

Mobilization, treason or stupidity, 500 'disappeared' in ten days, abandoned fortifications, 'mobilize 4 million', why the smaller Russian army seems bigger than the larger Ukrainian one

Plenty of topics today:

• Ukrainian soldiers accuse the leadership of betrayal

• Specialized equipment summoned to remove a Soviet tank monument from a frontline tank - meanwhile, soldiers curse the lack of fortifications in the same area

• Ukrainian soldiers give loss estimates - 500 lost in ten days in just 10 days, 10% return from the frontline (not counting desertions)

• Training for the mobilized to speed up, 18-25 year-olds to undergo training from January onwards

• Hundreds of thousands of wounded Ukrainain soldiers abandoned to their fate

• Soldiers on tik tok curse militarist civilians far from the front - "If you want to fight to the last man, join us. If not, it's not your decision to make,"

• Ex-president Poroshenko in an Atlantic Council interview calls to ‘end the meat-grinder’

• Nationalist journalist Butusov claims 105 thousand soldiers killed or MIA

• Mobilization rates much lower than loss rates

• Fatal IED attack by Ukrainian citizen against mobilization centre

• Army pushes health standards for mobilization even lower

• Beaten man mobilized on an ambulance stretcher

• Why the small Russian army seems bigger than the big Ukrainian army - corruption and low motivation on the side of the ‘elves’

Treason or stupidity?

In November 1916, as the imperial army retreated along the frontline and the Tsarist elite shook with scandal after scandal, the Russian liberal-nationalist politician Pavel Milyukov posed the famous question to the country’s parliament - what was to blame, treason or stupidity? He got various answers, to which he retorted

‘Choose any ... as the consequences are the same.’