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Putin’s strategic failure and ‘miscalculations’ play out on the world stage, experts weigh in
Fox news ^ | 02/27/2022 | Callie Patteson

Posted on 02/27/2022 4:33:00 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Ukrainian forces continue to fend off Russian troops as fighting persists Sunday, prompting apparent frustration from Russian President Vladimir Putin and questions regarding strategic miscalculations.

Russia’s military is roughly 4.5 times larger than Ukraine’s active-duty force, but Ukrainians continue to hold the capital city of Kyiv as Russian troops encircle it.

"The longer this goes on the worse it is for Vladimir Putin," former CIA Moscow station chief Dan Hoffman told Fox News Digital. "There's got to be some questions about miscalculations."

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: bidensbuttboys; failure; miscalculations; putin; strategic
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All this is giving me heartburn and anxiety.
1 posted on 02/27/2022 4:33:00 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

about what?


2 posted on 02/27/2022 4:35:32 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This is all premature. Later reading will be fascinating.


3 posted on 02/27/2022 4:35:39 PM PST by rrrod (6)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Does Putin think if he takes Ukraine the World will leave Russia alone ? D’oh


4 posted on 02/27/2022 4:36:06 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Flashbacks from the ‘80s and nuclear war.


5 posted on 02/27/2022 4:36:30 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I understand. What’s already transpired is horrifying enough...

We must have faith though. God is more merciful than He is wrathful.


6 posted on 02/27/2022 4:38:15 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I do not think Putin is failing. I think he is waiting.


7 posted on 02/27/2022 4:39:12 PM PST by madison10
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To: ChicagoConservative27
"In the Russian army – just like in the Soviet Army and then Russian armies historically – junior soldiers are treated very badly," he said noting it is a consistent mentality at every level in the Russian ranks.

"They use a very strict discipline that's enforced by very severe punishments in order to maintain cohesion of a fighting force," he said.

"When you go out into combat, it requires initiative and understanding on the part of your soldiers to achieve the objectives against difficult odds – they just don't have that mindset," Ryan continued. "They don't have that training.

8 posted on 02/27/2022 4:41:49 PM PST by tlozo
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To: ChicagoConservative27

There is so much disinformation now going on that people really need to have their critical radar on high alert to sort out the wheat from the chaff.


9 posted on 02/27/2022 4:42:49 PM PST by iontheball
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To: rrrod

Here is the big problem with a brain dead figure head president.

No one knows who is realy in charge, including the Russians.

Nobody knows, yet everyone inside the beltway thinks they should be the one in charge. This means there are a lot of ways for a lot of moron bureaucrats to ...k things up. It only takes one mistake.


10 posted on 02/27/2022 4:43:30 PM PST by Devils_Tower (media spin)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“All this is giving me heartburn and anxiety.”

I’m getting bored with it but it’s not good over there at all because we are now looking at a longer and much more deadly war. It could also spread to other countries.


11 posted on 02/27/2022 4:43:35 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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To: madison10

Putin doesn’t have time to wait. The chemo isn’t working.


12 posted on 02/27/2022 4:44:03 PM PST by marcusmaximus
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“I do not think Putin is failing. I think he is waiting.”

They are getting their charred asses handed to them. He made a huge mistake and thousands of young Russians are dying in Ukraine.


13 posted on 02/27/2022 4:44:10 PM PST by jntrees
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To: tlozo

No trannies?


14 posted on 02/27/2022 4:51:55 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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To: Devils_Tower

Speaking of brain dead, wonder who’s really in charge here?


15 posted on 02/27/2022 4:54:34 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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The MIC and MSM. War is good bidness for the MIC and for the MSM, not having to dissemble vax data results and deal with trucker problems et al is a huge plus. They get their narrative half a world away where they can control virtually all the gozina’s and gozoutta’s. :0)


16 posted on 02/27/2022 4:58:26 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: iontheball

The more I read about Russia screwing up big time, the more I doubt it. I swear it’s almost like an agenda, sort of like “we’re all going to die from the virus”. It all just doesn’t smell right.


17 posted on 02/27/2022 5:00:30 PM PST by GrumpyOldGuy
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This is similar to the Winter War with Finland in 1939. Soviets thought it would be a walk in the park, completely underestimated their enemy. The Finns kicked their ass. Stalin regrouped and reinforced. The Finns were ultimately overwhelmed with numbers.


18 posted on 02/27/2022 5:09:27 PM PST by wny ( )
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To: madison10

When is that SOTU speech, anyway?


19 posted on 02/27/2022 5:10:49 PM PST by jimjohn (We're at war, people. Start acting like it.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Putin has dementia. Pass it on.


20 posted on 02/27/2022 5:11:42 PM PST by McGruff (A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World Before the Truth Puts On its Shoes.)
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