Why is that a reason, if that particular factor is a wash for both sides?
Resorting to conscription to fill your ranks is not something you do when you’re “obviously winning”.
Uhuh. So when the Soviets were flattening Berlin they weren’t obviously winning? When the US had sunken the entire Japanese Navy and were systemically saturation bombing the Japanese mainland, they weren’t obviously winning?
Whether or not Ukraine has kidnapping squads doesn’t mean Russia can’t also be having manpower issues.
Both can be true at the same time.
You can’t cite Russian conscription as evidence that Russia is losing and then say that Ukraine also using conscription doesn’t matter
I didn’t say either of those things you’re saying.
This is what I said :
If it’s mirrored on both sides, then why the fuck would you bring it up as a reason to think Ukraine isn’t losing?
What you’re doing is actually moving the goal posts, by the way
I was bringing it up as a reason to think the case for Russia winning wasn’t a clear slam dunk.
Resorting to conscription to fill your ranks is not something you do when you’re “obviously winning”.
And before you make a claim about Ukraine resorting to conscription, too, at no point have I claimed Ukraine was “obviously winning” either.
Why is that a reason, if that particular factor is a wash for both sides?
Uhuh. So when the Soviets were flattening Berlin they weren’t obviously winning? When the US had sunken the entire Japanese Navy and were systemically saturation bombing the Japanese mainland, they weren’t obviously winning?