Russia’s been in a demographic slide for decades, and here they are killing off their fertile men.
Betcha Vlad didn’t have a plan for a campaign that lasted more than a couple of months.
“Betcha Vlad didn’t have a plan for a campaign that lasted more than a couple of months.”
You are very likely to be right, but the problem for Ukraine is they are stuck in an attritional battle with a much larger power.
He was thinking of weeks, after all the Ukes really want to reunite with Mother Russia, and anyway their President’s just a clown, and we got all these tanks. We’ll be greeted as liberators, he believed, and his yes-men fed him what he wanted to hear. Russia has always been dysfunctional. Now it’s gone nuts. But the mothers and wives protesting is a sign of hope. Same thing occurred when Afghanistan went sour for them.