An interesting report by Professor Phillips:

[Tomconroy]

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[Ilsa]

1. Let it be so. nt

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. What would it take for the generals to go to Putin

and say, "Enough! We are not fighting any more. The war is over."

[DavidDvorkin]

3. Yes, why aren't they worried about how the war is weakening Russia on other fronts?

For that matter, I keep expecting uprisings in various places Russia in effect occupies. I'm surprised it hasn't happened.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. I agree.

Perhaps it will take just a little bit more time.

I think it was during their war in Afghanistan that I'd read stories of Soviet mothers, whose conscripted sons were being terribly mistreated and abused in the military, going off to the base where son was, taking him, and telling the commanding officer something like, "Don't even consider following us! I'm taking my Vanya home where he will be safe!"

At the time, and of course I was much younger then, I didn't get it. I couldn't figure out how these elderly women could do that.

Now that I'm 73, I really get it. There is no one with less to lose than a post-menopause woman. She's already reproduced, and if she did reproduce, she's willing to defend her offspring no matter what it takes.

It may well be that something similar will happen as an uprising of mothers as they learn about their sons' unnecessary deaths.