It’s really a consequence of the oligarchy in action. The oligarch prioritized keeping the population in live over the survival of Russia itself.
This could prove fortuitous, as the population seeing how everything is falling apart might rise up and displace their leaders.
Maybe Russian generals are under severe pressure to get results fast.
The Russians ofhen have little to no support. A unit with 40 tanks is easily squadron level, and should have a hq element or additional recon troop. How hard would it be for them to deploy a FLIR drone as the vanguard? Should be pretty easy to spot a couple guys hanging out in the woods by the highway!
I believe all of this is staged.
All of it.
Its like wagging the dog for an excuse to nuke America.
The Russians did one thing right. They launched the attack near the end of winter. This gives them the maximum time before next winter could big them down.
Which side is most likely to exhaust their military resources first? I wonder how much Putin is willing to sacrifice and still keep Russia secure and himself in power?
- runs scared into the woods - gets picked up by Ukraine Territorial Defense who
torture him thinking he's a Russian spy - gets released, immediately goes back to UK.
We were lied to for a couple years by our politicians and press about Russian collusion.
We were lied to from our politicians and press about the integrity of our election results
We were lied to by our politicians and press about the Covid virus and the safety of vaccines versus the dangers of alternative medicine.
Why does anyone believe what our politicians and press are claiming is happening between Russia and Ukraine?
This Journalist is right on........READ!!!
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It’s to our advantage for Russia to overthrow Putin, they can get their western trade back if Putin is gone and the Russian government is overthrown by its own people.
China owns Russia at this point otherwise. I’ll bet they orchestrated some of this through Biden.
After the embarrassment of our Afghanistan pull out - we should not be
criticizing others.
Ukraine has never been “brilliant” in any war against Russia including this one.
Another day, even more propaganda from The Daily Mail.
The biggest problem that the Russian military has is that they don’t know the truth on what they are facing with the people in Ukraine. They expected to be fighting a bunch of neo-nazis who the people despise and yearn to have liberation; and their loving Russian brothers have come to save them.
They would’ve done better if they really understood the truth. Then they would be ready for facing millions of insurgents who now hate them dearly and want nothing more than to fight the Russians hard to kick their army out of Ukraine.
They're bodybuilders meant to look scary to intimidate Russian civilians and headless chickens dying in droves when against military force.
Maybe the Taliban can sell all of our gear we left to the Ukrainians.
I have no seen one grunt on either side equipped with night vison equipment......
I dont think the Ukrainians are brilliant, but they are good enough and numerous enough to make the misbegotten initial Russian plan fail.
Its likely that, at this point, there are many more Ukrainians in action than Russians, between the mobilizing army and their militias. Most are infantry. The Russians have little infantry. This makes Russian lines porous and their logistics vulnerable. Roadbound columns of vehicles are vulnerable to encirclement and ambush, against light infantry with good antitank weapons.
The Russians can win this, given time, but they will need many more infantry.
Their soldiers will have urban battle experience and will be more effective for the next invasion.
Daily Mail has jumped the shark with their coverage of this war. They sound like The Ukrainian Ministry of Propaganda.
No. 1 problem with most of the worlds militaries is actual military operations.
There’s a huge difference in what can be swept under the rug in merely garrison duty as opposed to actual dead bodies which cannot be covered up.
Real war means people die, and soldiers who have incompetent commanders who have to “make bricks without straw” at times. Supply lines and logistics are one of the things American Military has so got down because we have not stopped fighting wars since WWII really.
I wonder, are the military experts the same military experts that orchestrated the Afghanistan withdrawal?