Army is more than just mobilizing people and giving them weapons. The best army is where the soldiers have a common goal.
Armies of different values
The APU has this goal: to protect their parents from murders, women and children from rape. This is a powerful motivating goal.
Mercenary army is not so effective. No one will stand to the death, but there are professionals with a high level of combat training and a professional understanding of the importance of group interaction for survival. Therefore, the Wagner is combat-ready and dangerous.
Quite another is the army mobilized in the war of conquest. Instead of the common goal of protecting their families, the only true goal of the mobilized is individual survival. Collected from all over the world mobilized strangers to each other. And the strategy of Muscovites to mobilize prisoners, drunks, homeless people, the unemployed and random people near the metro turns the Russian army into an army of monkeys with grenades.
Shooting at the Belgorod training ground is not an accident, but a pattern. This is just the biggest news. We just don't know how many mobilized colleagues have been quietly beaten to death in the barracks, raped, disabled, mentally and physically tortured right now.
Will these traumatized losers be effective in combat? No. They will not think about combat missions, but how to hide in order to survive. The mobilized will surrender in batches. They will run away with weapons. They will shoot their own. They will return to Russia and continue to kill civilians.
That is why mobilization for a war of conquest is an extreme step. Therefore, Putin did not want her so much. That is why mobilization will break Russia and will not allow the war to continue for a long time.
