“Russian President Vladimir Putin is “furious” that his invasion of Ukraine hasn’t been “easy” after Russian troops have been unable to take even one major city in three days of fighting, according to a member of the European Union Parliament who said he was citing Ukrainian intelligence reports.”
Hilarious.
It took the US over 3 weeks to take Baghdad, after bombing Iraq for 40 days. And that was a bigger Army in a smaller country.
Yet there are dozens above who believe Russia is bogged down...and Putin furious...because they have not put this away in THREE DAYS lol
There is only one nation responsible for the shortcomings of Russia since the fall of the USSR, and that nation is Russia.
They could have easily integrated into the west. Doors were open for them, they joined the G-8, they could have integrated economically. But they chose this path of half-communism based on gangsters instead of ideologues.
Some of the Russian people saw this but were unable to stop the forces that eventually consolidated around strongman Putin and whatever slim hope there was for the west to welcome Russia into the fold has now evaporated completely.
Ukraine wanted to be the new Russia and that must have made Putin very angry, given that Russians have always looked down on Ukrainians (calling them little Russians). Ukraine was moving forward while Russia stagnated. Putin tried to disguise this with big shows like Olympic games and World Cup of football, but it didn’t really work.
And now he has lashed out to try to destroy the forward path of Ukraine and force them to plod along with Russia and the other lame duck, Belarus. Even Kazakhstan has probably done better since the fall of the USSR.
My fear is that Putin will get so angry and humiliated in this fiasco that he will lash out at other targets and perhaps seek to plunge the whole world into crisis. He needs to be taken out by the Russian military as soon as possible, otherwise it will be a huge global crisis and possibly a terrible war. We would technically win that war, but at a greater cost than the Second World War. Nobody needs that, least of all the Russian people (who must be generally scared to death now because I’m sure they realize that as far as superpowers invading Russia, they may not be third time lucky, they beat back Napoleon and Hitler, barely, but NATO? I don’t think so.)
“It took the US over 3 weeks to take Baghdad, after bombing Iraq for 40 days. “
I believe that you are confusing Gulf War I in 1991 with the Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. The Air campaign in 1991 was 43 days long before the 100 hour long ground combat which defeated the Iraqi armed forces in Kuwait. In 2003 there was no separate Air campaign, as both Air and Ground operations were conducted simultaneously. The start of operation Iraqi Freedom on March 20th, 2003 to the capture of Baghdad on April 9th, 2003 was 16 days, or two weeks and two days, not ”over three weeks” as you stated.
“And that was a bigger Army in a smaller country.”
Ukraine has a land mass that is about 38% larger than Iraq, with a population that is about 3% larger than Iraq. The US and Coalition Forces totaled 177,194 for the initial invasion in March 2003 - consisting of around 130,000 US forces, 45,000 British, 2,000 Australian and 194 Polish commandos. The Russians are estimated to have around 190,000 troops deployed around Ukraine, not all committed in the initial assault.
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