Post #395

On April 25, 2022, Marko Marjanović, editor of Anti-Empire, wrote a guest post for this blog in which he warned that Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine faced a critical manpower shortage, and the failure to partially mobilize—or at the very least retain conscripts—would likely have catastrophic consequences for Moscow. This was just two months after the start of the war, when conventional wisdom among “indy” media pundits was “everything is going according to plan!” and “the Ukrainian military is weeks—or days—away from total collapse!” Marko has returned to E. Slavsquat—this time to document evidence of a troubling shell shortage in the Russian military. It would probably be unwise to dismiss this warning, considering Anti-Empire has been accurately chronicling the various twists and turns of this bizarre conflict since before Day One. https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/russias-completely-avoidable-shell