Russia keeps increasing the bounty for joining the army, but most pieces I’ve read suggest that youths are noticing that no one is returning home from the front line (or are just not interested in being killed lol), so not taking Putin up on his kind offer.
Forced conscription next? Maybe Putin expects North Korea’s malnourished parasite ridden soldiers to step in?
Dunno how this all ends up. If Putin is assassinated, Russia is likely to be a shit show. If Putin somehow retreats/gives up, it’s going to be generations before Russia has anything like a ‘normal’ relationship on the world stage.
Russia and its population are so fucked, for many many years.