Except the last movie of 1941 had Stalin retreating to his dacha near Moscow and there his generals consulted with him and begged him to come back and lead the country.
In this movie, Putin is paying a state visit to Azerbaijan, and the army is doing a joint exercize with the Mongolian army.
The generals have not gone to visit Putin in Azerbaijan, because first he fired his top general and replaced him with a KGB man, then unofficially fired him and replaced him with his one-time personal bodyguard, now a mere bureaucrat, no military expertise whatever. Then Putin went (fled?) to Azerbaijan. Who are the head generals now? Will they beg Putin to come back and lead the country? Will he?
Not the same kind of threat as Operation Barbarossa.
What Ukraine has committed to the offensive doesn’t have the power or impact of what Army Group Centre applied in the Summer of ‘41.
If Ukraine is having a difficult time holding its lines in the eastern part of the country, what makes them think they can defend an even larger line?
What about logistics? Can they support this?
Have the Russians truly made the push to reclaim? I don’t think they have.
I smell trap. Will Ukraine take the bait and commit even more to this offensive? We’ll see.
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled The Kremlin Is Panicking | This Is A Kursk Update!, Eleutheria5 wrote: Except the last movie of 1941 had Stalin retreating to his dacha near Moscow and there his generals consulted with him and begged him to come back and lead the country.
In this movie, Putin is paying a state visit to Azerbaijan, and the army is doing a joint exercize with the Mongolian army.
The generals have not gone to visit Putin in Azerbaijan, because first he fired his top general and replaced him with a KGB man, then unofficially fired him and replaced him with his one-time personal bodyguard, now a mere bureaucrat, no military expertise whatever. Then Putin went (fled?) to Azerbaijan. Who are the head generals now? Will they beg Putin to come back and lead the country? Will he?
"...replaced him with his one-time personal bodyguard, now a mere bureaucrat, no military expertise whatever. "
You know his 'former bodyguard', Alexei Dyumin, is a General, right? He's believed to be Putin's selection as his successor. Sending him to Kursk to handle the fighting is
[H/T Jumper] "Alexei Dyumin was also a General and his father was also a General. He is a military man and he is being groomed as the odds on successor to Val the Putin.
That the would be successor to Putin is going to Kursk means one thing only. Russia is certian of victory. This provides the credentials for him to win a vote in Russia for president."
Nah. The content of the OP is not true. Both sides exaggerate, but the Ukraine goes heavy into fantasy land. The Ukrainians claim to control areas that haved been evacuated. Most of the troops are on or near the border. They send small recon teams into densely forested regions to push further into Russia, where Chechens skilled at ambush pick them off. The Ukrainians are running out of hardware, vehicles, tanks etc. in the Ukraine, and the away team in Kursk has lost much of what it brought with them, and can't get more. The Russians have complete control of the airspace and have classified the Ukrainians as 'terrorists' because they have attacked the nuclear power plant and shot at civilians. Bad things happen to terrorists in Russia; Putin says as terrorists, they are not entitled to the protections of the Geneva convention.
In the notes I took on the video, the analyst says the Ukrainians are trying to hold on until November. Not gonna happen.