NEW: Ukraine’s defense ministry has begun intensive planning to arm over 130,000 militia forces against a renewed Russian invasion.
The effort is aimed at protecting the backs of Ukrainian troops and inflicting "unacceptable losses" on Russian forces.
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Ukraine is betting that prepared civilians, defending the flanks & rear of the army as it moves east, will "know their movements near their own homes" & could make life hard on Russia.
Ukraine’s special operations forces, will lead the effort to build & train resistance units
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But for Ukraine, the effort is more about the will to fight than battlefield technology or proficiency. Ukrainian preparations for a bloody insurgency could strike a nerve with a Kremlin that has become casualty-conscious in recent years.
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“It becomes a numbers game as to whatever Putin feels he wants to take,” a former US defense official told me. “Can he take it without sustaining casualties that would upset the domestic political balance in Russia and therefore put the regime at risk?”
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Need lots of people because RU is still good at what it was always good at - offering up unlimited supplies of peasants for cannon fodder.
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The US is sending troops to Europe right now!!! I'm based in NM and some of my patients are telling me that their friends on active duty are being sent to undisclosed locations in the EU!!!
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So....these guys? 
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Are Ukrainian Jews fleeing the Nazis armed by Israel? twitter.com/RinaBassist/st…
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Local “patriotic” groups without a command structure and hierarchy of responsibility
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Ukraine doesn’t seem to have that kind of time. Build, train, and arm. All that takes time.
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So this means they are totally expecting an invasion. Meanwhile, they keep saying they don't think there will be an invasion. A divided leadership or intentional psychological war tactic? Probably the latter.
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In my opinion, this will only give russia another reason to invade.
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