The intelligence services told him what he wanted to hear, that the people of Ukraine were under the control of a small gang of Nazis and drug addicts and that they would greet Russian troops as liberators.
Putin himself created this atmosphere in which he is surrounded by fearful sycophants.
Eventually the military will revolt.......................
I’m late - is the 3th or 4th time for today the the Uks have defeated Russia? Usually we get at least 7 “this time for sure, really!” that the Ukes have demolished the Russian military per day.
Officers will be executed until morale improves?
I tend to agree with your assessment. I am sure that this conflict is going to shake out a lot of the dead wood from the Russian military and the military procurement bureaucracy. If Putin was smart he would identify the best performers in the ranks and promote them to noncoms and to keep them for a long time. Putin should also clean out the officer corps for poor performance and promote combat veterans into their positions.
Or, they were all just wrong.
Yershov was the scape goat
Sergei Shoigu, General of the Army
6th Army, Sixth Formation
6th Combined Arms Army Headquarters in Agalatovo, Leningrad Oblast
95th Command Brigade in Gorelovo, Leningrad Oblast
132nd Signals Brigade in Agalatovo, Leningrad Oblast
25th Motor Rifle Brigade in Luga, Leningrad Oblast
138th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade in Kamenka, Leningrad Oblast
9th Guards Artillery Brigade in Luga, Leningrad Oblast
5th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade in Lomonosov, Leningrad Oblast
26th Missile Brigade, Luga, Leningrad Oblast
30th Engineering Regiment, Kerro, Leningrad Oblast
6th Counter Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Regiment in Sapyornoye, Leningrad Oblast
51st Logistics Brigade in Saint Petersburg, Leningrad Oblast
It has been repeatedly stated that the Russians have a corps of NCO’s. It is my understanding that their main weakness is that they don’t have a strong corps of NCO’s like we do and that is where they are showing weaknesses in execution of this war. NCOs run the military and make it work.
Full disclosure; USAF 1973-1978,
discharged rank E5.
The CCP didn’t fare well in it’s last dust-up with India.
There have been several “too good to be true” stories today.
This might be true. Time will tell.
But I haven’t heard much from the Coast of Asov today. Things were not going to so there.
Propaganda is fun, no? Its like watching a limited series on Paramount +.
Kamil Galeev describes why the Russian army is so weak. A very sad story, but as long as the thieves are running the country nothing will change
more here: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4042550/posts?page=270#270
Eh, I was told I shouldn’t believe a word I read...
I learned from the experts.