If you had $1,000 saved in 2015, what would it be worth today?

What ? Shut up

The partial mobilization is a calling for military veteran reservists. Mainly men in their 30’s with no wife or kids. I know two men who have been called in but they were already ranked military for officer positions, not grunt forces.
The regions most called in seem to be places like Chechnya, Dagestan, Yakutia, etc. these are mainly regions of ethnic minorities. I’ve been hearing rumors of young men attempting to volunteer are being turned away. Some say fine, some decide to turn to Wagner. In other words, rich college kids from Moscow aren’t being talked to. Go figure

What I think we will see, and it will take a few weeks for any presence of these mobilized folk to hit Ukraine, is what I think will be more of a cannon fodder Soviet strategy. Around 80%-90% of Russian troops are clumped in Zaporozhye and Kherson oblast and honestly they seem to be just waiting around. The troops outside of these regions are mainly private military company or Donbas militia, not official Russian military. Unsure if it’s just a sit in until mobilized troops show up. Seems lazy, but may just be attempting to normalize presence in the newly annexed regions.
Donetsk and Luhansk declared independence from Ukraine in 2014. Long gone.

In comparison to Soviet wartime strategy, Putin has been incredibly sensitive, spooked, and tiptoey, about everything. Maybe this will change with mobilized men. Some dude shot a recruitment officer in my region because he said the speech sucked lol