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Russia raises the maximum age of conscription as it seeks to replenish Ukraine forces

From 2024, anyone aged 18 to 30 will be called up for a year of military service, with those served draft notices banned from leaving the country

From 2024, anyone aged 18 to 30 will be called up for a year of military service, with those served draft notices banned from leaving the country.

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Russia is gonna have a huge age, education and worker skills demographic issue in the coming years.
- They already did/do. They never truly recovered from WW2.
  Certainly not making things any better though.

Lol. Maybe russians will begin to care, now that it will touch them.
Or, you know, fertilise the Ukrainian soil.
Reap what you sow, and all.
- They are beyond caring.

So more Russians moving abroad and then subsequently claiming they're being persecuted while marching in pro Putin protests against the west. I know this isn't all of them, but it's an alarming number. I don't understand this line of thinking, at all.
- i see it as like maga telling everyone to support our troops and police; while simultaneously supporting politicians that make things worse for police and the troops.

The draft notice that eliminates a Russian citizen from accessing banking, travel, healthcare, and many other social services seems to me creates another problem I haven't heard yet.
If you're essentially cut off from legal society for consumption of goods and services needed to live, and you're resigning yourself to that fate to save your live (avoid the draft), then the only other outlet to get those things needed for life would be crime, right?
Further, I have to imagine otherwise law-abiding Russian citizens likely don't have the skills to become an effective petty criminal overnight, which would mean the alternative would be throwing your lot in with organized crime, of which Russia has plenty of.
Does this mean that the ranks of the mob are swelling with not only fresh people, but also lots of high quality skills that the mob may not normally be able to access because those skill provide a good livelihood?
What symptoms/measurements in the news would we start to see to support that this could be occurring now or in the future?

The USA has been developing its military strategies & weapons systems for 60+ years to deal with a "Russian horde" scenario. This isn't a guerrilla war, numbers do not matter without training & equipment.

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