Political economist Konstantin Sonin said Putin is likely holding off calling a mass mobilization because the war in Ukraine is 'deeply unpopular' in Russia.
is reportedly under increasing pressure to take a more aggressive approach to his ongoing war against Ukraine and introduce a full-scale mobilization, but the Russian president is stalling over concerns doing so would break from the propaganda narrative he's been pushing for more than 18 months, experts tellMartial law should be imposed in Russia and Putin should announce a second wave of mobilization to draft hundreds of thousands more troops to fight in Ukraine, hard-line members of...
He said however that"some public figures say we need to get 1 million or 2 million," adding:"It depends on what we want."Konstantin Sonin, a Russian-born political economist from the University of Chicago, said Putin is likely holding off against declaring a mass mobilization because he realizes that the war is"deeply unpopular among the vast majority of the Russian population.
"This is what he is fed in the army and police reports, and this is the language that he speaks to his subordinates and the general public. Announcing a mobilization in the open will be a drastic departure from this worldview, almost like bursting from an informational bubble," Sonin continued, explaining that even if Putin does attempt to draft more men for the war, it will be accompanied by rhetoric claiming nothing new is happening.
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