Posted on 10/09/2024 7:32:22 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Russia's weak response to Ukraine's assault into Russian territory is partly due to a persistent flaw in Russian President Vladimir Putin's leadership, a warfare expert told Business Insider.
Ukraine launched a surprise attack on Russia's Kursk region in early August and, by late September, said it controlled more than 500 square miles. Russia has not taken any significant swathe of territory back.
Michael Bohnert, an analyst at RAND Corporation, told BI that with the way Russian President Vladimir Putin has responded, not even appointing a general to take charge of what is clearly a military situation rather than a domestic security matter, "there is, I think, an element of he doesn't want to make anything where any general could claim credit for being the victor."
Russia's response to Ukraine's attack has not been highly effective. Ukrainian troops said they were first able to cross into Kursk easily, and they then made rapid progress.
And while Ukraine's progress has dramatically slowed as Russia has stiffened its resistance, Russia has only been able to take back some villages.
Russia's response to Ukraine's attack on Russian soil was decidedly slow. Putin initially froze as he has in other crises, but Moscow eventually put the FSB — Russia's primary security and intelligence agency — in charge, leading a host of other groups.
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What with everything that’s going on, it’s pretty boorish to be posting jokes and fairy tales like this nonsense.
Just saying all this doesn’t make it so. You certainly can’t back up anything you have said.
Like they know anything at all. Business Insider articles are written by people who have never been in a war or even served in a military service. They only want the war to continue as long as possible. The people who die in said war are what are called “filler people”: they exist only to be killed in a war that they can sit at home and opine about.
Ahh… yet another post from that FONT OF TRUTH & DECENCY…BUSINESS INSIDER! Now we will SEE THE LIGHT. /sarc
“What with everything that’s going on, it’s pretty boorish to be posting jokes and fairy tales like this nonsense.”
So you’re saying all Russian territory taken by the Ukrainians has been retaken by the Russians? If you’re not saying that - and if that isn’t true (i.e. the territory has been retaken) - then it’s clearly not a fairy tale and not nonsense.
Kyiv in 3 days! Bring your parade uniform! Putin stronk!
Kharkiv in 3 days! Putin stronk!
(((PING!)))
To be added to the zeeper follies pinglist, ping me bro... we need laughter!
The correct title for the ping list is Russian Terror Supporters Ping
Thanks bert!
Always nice to be included in your fevered postings!
Well among his seven types of cancer, his multiple mistresses, getting lost in his $billion mansion in Sochi, facing assassination every week, the seething Russian masses full of envy of Western indoor toilets, ready to overthrow the Russian Govt, and a total lack of weapons on the battlefield, how can Putin be expected to deal with Kursk?
Didn’t you say that ukraine was finished? Their army in kursk would be wiped out! LMAO you communist turd.
Ukrainian troops wasting time in empty fields is fine with Putin.
I of course don’t know for sure, but posit that Putin views the Kursk incursion as a ploy to get Russia to divert Russian forces from its slow but successful grindathon in the Donetsk theater. He likely figure that once his goals there are achieved, he can turn to cleaning up the Kursk area. Putin knows the final settlement of this mess will not include ceding established Russian territory to Ukraine. Meanwhile, Ukraine uses up its own forces and materiale.
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