Posted on 09/16/2025 11:21:43 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday personally supervised the joint Russian-Belarusian military exercises Zapad-2025, the Kremlin said.
Putin arrived at the Mulino training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod region wearing a military uniform as he is also commander-in-chief of the Russian army.
Addressing the participants, the president said the goal of the exercises is to practice defending the Union State – a name for the alliance between Russia and Belarus – from any aggression.
"The purpose of this exercise is to train all necessary elements for unconditional protection of sovereignty, territorial integrity, and defense against any aggression towards the Union State," he said.
Putin said the exercises are taking place at 41 training grounds, involving 100,000 servicemen and about 10,000 units of weapons and equipment.
"Moreover, it’s all modern technology used in practical combat operations, and the plans for these exercises are based on experience gained during special military operations. There are around 10,000 models of different types of equipment, including 333 aircraft – tactical, strategic, and military transport aviation," he said.
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Hitler also supervised
I spent over thirty years in the corporate world. On numerous occasions the president considered that either something was so important, or he wanted it to seem so important, that he stepped in personally and ran it. In every case I recall, it was either a disaster or not as effective as it might have been otherwise. The problems are many. If the president had, at one point, the knowledge and competence to do the thing, however he thinks things work, they have evolved and no longer work that way. Another issue is people who do know what’s going on and how things work defer to the president. If they don’t and try to add input it isn’t well received and nobody wants to get into a fight with the president. My takeaway is when the president of anything gets involved things go badly.
Oh, one other issue of the top getting personally involved. It’s a message to everyone under him and the people under them that he has zero faith in his leadership team. Way to build a great team.
I can just imagine his uniform looked like a theater usher from years past, a design always favored by the Europeans.
All those years as a paper-pushing administrator with the KGB have finally paid off???
Given the failures Russia’s military has suffered, maybe he should’ve been a paper-pusher with the military brass back in the day, instead of kissing failed spymasters *sses.
And that worked out swimmingly.
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