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berrybearry t1_j1hxgjb wrote

Reply to comment by jnemesh in [OC] 5 of the top 15 employers in the world are military entities. The largest non-military employer is Amazon with over 2 million employees worldwide - that's just over the population of Slovenia by giteam

Here's a trick - Russian Army has 1.9M of "employees". And employee is a person who gets paid. So 1.9 = office staff + more or less professional soldiers who signed the contract + officers and so on. And besides of that there's a regular army staff - these who are not getting any money, but they just HAVE to spend a year there. For free. It's not a job, or privilege, it's a duty to waste there a year of their lives.

So basically the numbers are bigger, even if we take into account these 100k left somewhere in Ukraine.

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jnemesh t1_j1qbo1m wrote

  1. a lot of the army isn't getting paid, and they aren't happy about it
  2. it really doesn't matter how many men you throw into combat if you don't have weapons or even warm clothes for them...or food.
  3. the death toll is horrific, and the Russians know it.

I don't expect this to end well for the Russians.

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