George Barros

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The President's Daily Brief · PDB Situation Report | June 5th, 2026: Trump Faces A New Crisis In Iran & Russia's Massive Kyiv Strike · 6 Jun 2026 podcast

And essentially, they lowered the standards, they lowered the threshold for

compulsorily activating a reservist.

Under the prior law, the Russian military could only mobilize reservists when Russia officially announced that it's at war, kind of like how you'd expect it in a regular Western country.

But basically, there was a legal threshold that you had to be officially declared at war and then reservists could be mobilized.

With the new amendments, it lowered the threshold, and now you don't have to officially be at war.

And they actually said that they could start mobilizing reservists to then go form these mobile air defense detachments that will go to point defense at, like, oil and gas terminals and that sort of thing.

But we read that as a pretty thin excuse, basically, just to operationalize those people.

And then once they're in the ranks, you know, whether or not they get fed into the infantry input, that's sort of an inconsequential administrative function.

So that's been going on since October at a slow rate, at a slow rolling rate.

They're going after that segment.

I think they're going to have to do that with more population segments.

They're not going to try to do a full scale, you know, giant mobilization of like 300,000 people like they did in fall 22.

because Putin is sensitive to that.

I think what they're going to try to do is go after students at the Russian equivalent of ROTC programs, the students that study at the military academies.

They're going to try to go after people who might be working at state-owned enterprises that have links to the defense industrial base, right?

So if you could basically augment 5,000 people from this pool, 5,000 people from that pool, that makes it easier.

Yeah.

It's political costs associated with mobilization.

And he would like to avoid that.

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