RT.com – Dec 21, 2022
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Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has announced the need to make a number of structural changes to the country’s armed forces in light of NATO’s attempts to bolster its presence on Russia’s border and expand its membership to Finland and Sweden.
During a Russian Defense Ministry meeting on Wednesday, Shoigu proposed a number of measures to strengthen the security of the Russian Federation, including creating a special grouping of troops on the country’s northwestern border and expanding Russia’s armed forces to amount to 1.5 million servicemen in total, with some 695,000 of them being contract soldiers.
Shoigu’s comments come as Helsinki and Stockholm have submitted bids to join NATO, citing a perceived threat from Russia in light of its ongoing military operation in Ukraine. Their accession to the US-led bloc is currently stalled by Türkiye and Hungary, but all other members have already welcomed their membership.
The minister also offered to “gradually” change the minimum draft age in Russia from 18 to 21 and raise the maximum age to 30, while also offering all draftees the opportunity to sign a contract with the army from the first day of service.
Shoigu went on to suggest creating a number of new military groupings, including five new artillery divisions, eight bomber aviation regiments, and one fighter regiment, as well as six army aviation brigades.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who also attended the meeting, approved the proposals for improving the country’s armed forces and instructed Shoigu to report back once these measures are deliberated with the ministerial board. Putin promised to address these proposals in detail later.
During his address to senior defense officials, Putin also emphasized the need to continue to modernize Russia’s nuclear arsenal, describing it as the key to guaranteeing the country’s sovereignty.
Russia may have a first rate warrior in defence secretary Sergey Shoigu, who looks very Asian but he is no match for Canada’s minister of defence, Harjit Sajjan. The most fearsome warrior ever to grace a battlefield Harjit Sajjan.
Harjit Sajjan, I street s**t you not.
If it’s more true that Russia always tells the truth, but appropriately hides some things—-and U.S./NATO pathologically lies and hides the truth with whole-spectrum murder and skullduggery—-then Helsinki and Stockholm joining NATO is NOT the cause of Russia expanding its army because the chess-playing Russians already factored in that eventuality (not a foregone conclusion, but a likelihood)…
They’ve already prepared for the worst-case scenario (years in the making)—-because they know their opponent can’t help themselves in their downward spiral into the blackhole of obsessive-compulsive domination of the world.
each day we’re getting closer to armageddon. persecution is worse than killing. the elites in the west openly consider the masses as an enemy of the evil agenda they set out.
The United States is bound and determined to destroy Russia whether it means another world war or not. The unmentionables are directing anti-Russia memes and completely control U.S. foreign policy. Biden is just a weak minded puppet who says and does what his handlers tell him. Whatever faults Putin has, he at least is protecting Russian culture, its people, and is not buying in to multiculturalism, in contrast to the idiots of western countries.
It is being said at the main UN building
a large number of US personel are disgusted with the present state of the USA
what with corruption election rigging and queers etc
and are secretly giving russia info
looking at the state of the UK maybe we should join them ?
USA is a nation of bullies and poofters…
They would never go to a One- on- One war with an adversary of equal military strength.
They only pick on small weaker countries thousands of miles away.
FFS..the majority still feel Arabs which failed flight school and used boxcutters did 9/11.
cornelius kings lyn: the UN is corrupt, so go figure. Maybe these US sheeple suffer from cognative dissonance.
sublimimals to turn men queer are in all films and TV progs the BBC is about the worst
Putin has refused to allow the NWO do do this in russia so russian men are still men
the USA is now a nation of dirty poofters shirtlifters and men in pink trousers
see paul joseph-watson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BtweobVUug