Posted on 02/26/2022 3:39:46 PM PST by Hojczyk
Here’s an interesting Twitter thread from someone named Riho Terras, a member of the European Parliament, posted a few hours ago. Obviously we’re not in any position to vouch for the accuracy of this thread (and some of it seems dubious), but pass it along in the interest of broad coverage:
THREAD 1/7 Intel from a Ukrainian officer about a meeting in Putin’s lair in Urals. Oligarchs convened there so no one would flee. Putin is furious, he thought that the whole war would be easy and everything would be done in 1-4 days.
Russians didn’t have a tactical plan. The war costs about $20 bln/day. There are rockets for 3-4 days at most, they use them sparingly. They lack weapons, the Tula and 2 Rotenberg plants can’t physically fulfil the orders for weapons. Rifles and ammo are the most they can do.
The next Russian weapons can be produced in 3-4 months – if even that. They have no raw materials. What was previously supplied mainly from Slovenia, Finland and Germany is now cut off.
If Ukraine manages to hold the Russians off for 10 days, then the Russians will have to enter negotiations. Because they have no money, weapons, or resources. Nevertheless, they are indifferent about the sanctions.
Alpha Spec Ops have been near Kyiv since the 18th February. The goal was to take Kyiv and instal a puppet regime. They are preparing provocations against innocent civilians – women and children – to sow panic. This is their trump card.
Russia’s whole plan relies on panic – that the civilians and armed forces surrender and Zelensky flees. They expect Kharkiv to surrender first so the other cities would follow suit to avoid bloodshed. The Russians are in shock of the fierce resistance they have encountered.
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“feel the brunt of the trauma is going to be dealt to all the families of Russian war dead :( -”
Indeed. And those Russian families don’t want to attack their fellow eastern Slavs, fellow Orthodox.
Russians would have no problem attacking Poles or Americans, but not Ukrainians
Putin’s goal now is to a page in the history books, not a paragraph
The Russian military can theoretically defeat Ukraine easily.
However it would be like getting the us military to fight Canada. And fight in Canadian cities against Canadian civilians. American military morale would plummet
Why are our interests stronger in Taiwan?
Plus add in the lack of motivation from Russians to fight fellow eastern Slavs.
In the 1700s to 1800s they were very successful fighting Tatas, Turks, Iranians and central Asians and Qing Chinese
Putin is cracking now. He desperately wants to get a long page in the history books.
But when he goes, there will be civil war in Russia. He has no groomed successor
Yep. We would probably be okay with conquering Mexico if it came to that. But we would feel guilty attacking Canadian cities with Tim Horton's in them.
ndeed. And those Russian families don’t want to attack their fellow eastern Slavs, fellow Orthodox.
Russians would have no problem attacking Poles or Americans, but not Ukrainians
It’s not just about ethnicity. It’s that family units are mixed. Father from Ukraine. Mother from Russia. Etc. That’s deeply personal. Putin is in a way labeling these people as Nazis and its being rejected. Putin got bad intel and went a bridge too far. Now its time to clean up the mess.
Our economy depends on a lot of what they produce. In particular computer chips that are indispensable to everything from your phone to your car to the weapon systems our military uses to defend us.
Stupidly we outsourced a lot of that to Asia. It will take years if not decades to rebuild that capacity in our own country.
I could see him f’ing it up like that. I have zero confidence in him not creating a disaster out of victory.
Everything I have seen about Ukrainian women lends itself to me believing that they are prone to anything BUT panic.
Trust me, you do not want to p off a Ukrainian woman.
That is an interesting prediction.
Wow….
We have mud season here in NH.
Unpaved roads are all but impassible.
A relative works with some Russians and days before this war started, they told him that other countries were already supplying the Ukraine with equipment to defend themselves with.
Absolutely. that is SOP for this administration.
But I’ll bet Klaus Schawb does.
Thanks, and thank you for your service.
It seems like an earlier generation of leaders, not just in the US but in Europe, understood the enormity of the work in front of them, and did their best to match it. Our present “leaders”, on the other hand...
What happens in the WEF is secondary.
This is Rossiya. When Putin goes - and he will soon — there will be chaos. Just like after the death of Iwan Grozny
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