What with everything that’s going on, it’s pretty boorish to be posting jokes and fairy tales like this nonsense.
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
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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?
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.
“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.”
Putin has positioned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a “Special Operation”, not a declared war. Perhaps his use of FSB is part of characterizing the Kursk incursion as an internal security matter, as if the Ukrainians are just on a crime spree requiring a “Police Action”.
