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To: vmirog91

Hard to see much of anything here that isn’t filtered, so who knows. Overall, by the size of the military they had at the beginning, I think Russia figured Ukraine was weak, which was a pretty reasonable assumption given how poor and corrupt they are. But Russia didn’t know was that the West was dumping in huge amounts of weapons (something Trump mentioned early on), so they got caught flat-footed. I think their planning will be more conservative in the future, such as 500,000 troops (probably forcing a call-up of reserves), rather than 200,000, for example.


86 posted on 03/13/2022 12:32:06 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: BobL

Trump pumped a lot of weapons in there....started modernizing our nuclear warheads too. We must prepare to fight a two theater war.


87 posted on 03/13/2022 12:36:05 PM PDT by vmirog91 (Burn Commies burn)
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