Putin Orders 20 Million Men: Russia Starts Cracking - Jason Jay Smart

[TexasTowelie]

Russia faces a transformative internal squeeze in 2026 as a new Kremlin decree expands reservist requirements and local manpower quotas. This centralized demand for bodies impacts the critical labor needs of remote regional economies thousands of miles from the capital. The resulting friction between Moscow and local officials creates systemic instability as families weigh the personal costs of a war economy that prioritizes military recruitment over community survival.

Casualties and slow battlefield progress intensify regional administrative pressure to fill ranks at any cost. Local governments increase sign on bonuses beyond $5000 and tighten domestic control to meet federal targets which fuels growing resentment toward regional governors. This internal strain coincides with a tightening war budget characterized by rising deficits and weaker energy revenues that shift massive financial burdens directly onto consumers and remote industrial centers.

When state control over the home front fractures the Kremlin pivots toward highly scalable disinformation campaigns to maintain global leverage. Cost effective wedge operations like Storm 1516 and Doppelganger use AI generated sites and viral hoaxes to target Western cohesion and financial confidence. These digital maneuvers aim to mask a fragile domestic reality where the gap between the prosperous center and the struggling periphery continues to widen under 2026 economic conditions.

CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro: Putin’s Reservist Mobilization
01:42 - The Governor’s Trap: How the Kremlin Forces Recruitment
03:09 - Russia’s Eternal Contracts: The Reality of “Special Training”
04:00 - Digital Draft Registries: The Efficiency of Putin’s Machine
05:31 - Russia’s Colonial War: Why Ethnic Republics are Dying
08:15 - Military Sign-on Bonuses: Why the Kremlin’s Money Fails
10:29 - The Kremlin’s Abyss: Why the Putin Regime is Cracking

[Deuxcents]

1. 20 million men for the war effort? His economy is flat as it is and he's wanting to deplete his male population

For the cause? Will there finally be an uprising from the people?

[calguy]

2. According to many YouTubers

Russia has been on the verge of collapse since the second month of the war.