"Comrade Joseph, according to our analysis, the Germans regarded this year as the decisive year of the war. They were trying to defeat us completely this year, or at the very least wipe out our main forces. Therefore, the pressure on us this year will be immense!" Comrade Shaposhnikov continued.
"Hmph! The Germans really have quite an appetite. No matter what, we still have over ten million troops, and we can mobilize another five million. With such a vast army, for the Germans to think they can swallow us whole within a year is simply a fool's dream!" Joseph said disdainfully. Although he admitted that Germany was powerful and the Russian military was no match for the German military, he believed this would be a long, drawn-out war. Even if Germany gained the upper hand, there was no way it could completely defeat Russia in just a little over a year. After all, Buru was a nation with formidable military strength. In Joseph's view, this war would last at least four or five years.
"Comrade Joseph, although the Germans are somewhat arrogant, we must respond with caution. While we have mobilized many troops, a great number of these hastily formed units have extremely poor combat strength and do not even have enough weapons and equipment. Their actual combat effectiveness is probably only comparable to that of the Germans' puppet states. This is highly unfavorable to us," Comrade Shaposhnikov reminded him.
Joseph's brows drew tightly together. If the Russian military's combat strength had truly fallen to the level of Germany's puppet states, then they would likely be utterly incapable of resisting Germany. After all, besides the elite German military, there were also those powerful puppet-state armies, none of which were easy to deal with. If that happened, Russia's chances of defeat