Originally Posted by
Timmy Tomkins
Today's Telegraph reporting the view from Ben Wallace, UK defence secretary, that Putin will declare War on Ukraine at V day celebrations and mobilise Russia. Martial Law will allow total focus on the military effort.
While that sounds very deterrent, to be able to do so, there needs to be a strong economy to "pay" for that. Russian economy is very weak now, and all the savings are already gone. So, no way to pay. Let alone, where is the equipment to be used by the untrained mobilized mob ?