Comprehensive mobilization: Putin wants 99 percent of the population to fight against “enemies”. As of: February 6, 2024, 4:35 p.m By: Patrick Mayer CommentsPressSplit Moscow autocrat Vladimir Putin gives a speech in Russia with threats against the West.

He wants to mobilize the majority of the Russian population. Putin said there was a “nationwide movement.” The Russian leader “conjured up a comprehensive social and economic mobilization of Russia that was reminiscent of the total mobilization of the Soviet Union during the Second World War,” wrote the experts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW)