To be clear, I’m perfectly ok with Russia getting smacked down in Ukraine. The people have spoken.
Its impossible to accept at face value any war story coming out of the country.
Only thing I accept as valid data are the calendar date, what the front lines sort of look like, and raw destroyed vehicle numbers.
The rest of the war is mixed up with propegnda and is therefore worthless.
Russia stepped into a big viper’s nest from what I can see so far. Putin gets failing marks for starting a war he obviously has botched up.
I would have been more accepting of a lighting take over of Ukraine, but this is just failure in lives lost at this point. Russia can get smacked now by a western clandestine military industrial complex.
The absolutely unforgivable sin is failure.
Putin is corrupt, Zelenskyy is corrupt, and the U.S. is being invaded. I know which I’m concerned with.
Secondly, it took the U.S. 6 weeks to take Iraq and Ukraine is roughly 30% bigger, and Putin may have wanted to make sure there would never be an insurrection for years afterwards as there was in Iraq which may account for the leveling in the east.
Time will tell, and European troops need to pour into Eastern Europe to make sure Putin doesn’t try for more.