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No, You’re Not Imagining It: Russia’s Army Is Inept
Slate ^ | Feb 28, 2022 | Fred Kaplan

Posted on 02/28/2022 6:52:04 PM PST by Renfrew

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To: Renfrew

Russia has a huge demographic problem, yet Putin is killing off all his young military aged men on a whim


61 posted on 02/28/2022 7:29:12 PM PST by McGavin999 (To shut down the border tell the administration the cartel is smuggling Ivermectin )
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To: McGavin999
Russia has a huge demographic problem, yet Putin is killing off all his young military aged men on a whim

Another reason to make a push now while he is still able to field an army.

62 posted on 02/28/2022 7:30:05 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Renfrew

The bigger story here is to find out why The White House did nothing for one full year, while Russian forces massed on the border and why is The White House NOT cutting of Russias oil. This is actually 0 times bigger than any other White House scandal in our history.


63 posted on 02/28/2022 7:31:26 PM PST by MGunny ( )
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To: Lazamataz

“we allowed our tactical commanders to be flexible, whereas that wasn’t true in the Soviet Bloc model.”

Not so - or at least entirely so. In fact, WW3 almost got rolling because Soviet commanders had flexibility in certain situations to pop off a nuke during the Cuban Missle Crisis. Two out of three voted to do it, but the third said “Nyet”.
https://www.rbth.com/history/326253-arkhipov-cuban-missil-crisis


64 posted on 02/28/2022 7:32:17 PM PST by LouieFisk
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To: RBW in PA

Our military is much better than the Russian military at being woke.


65 posted on 02/28/2022 7:32:25 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Fifteen days to slow the curve! Just fifteen days!)
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To: Renfrew

“This is a useful analysis of the Russian way of war, and the problems it is facing in Ukraine”

As Stalin observed: Quantity has a quality all its own.


66 posted on 02/28/2022 7:32:38 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: MNJohnnie

I hope you’re right, but I don’t think you are.

See you in a week.


67 posted on 02/28/2022 7:33:10 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong [FJB])
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To: atc23
Did you read what you wote? When did so many of your “conservatives” become Putin fan boys?

You honestly demented enough to think any nation can use a nuke and not be annihilated in response like a rabid dog by all the other nuclear powers simply out of self preservation? It like you all are ripping and reading the talking points the Kremilin is sending out without bothering to think for a heartbeat

68 posted on 02/28/2022 7:33:51 PM PST by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Ummmm, each of those young military aged men could have produced lots of Russian babies. Now they are worm food.


69 posted on 02/28/2022 7:34:16 PM PST by McGavin999 (To shut down the border tell the administration the cartel is smuggling Ivermectin )
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To: MNJohnnie
" Bad new for you Alex Jones bots, Russia's Army really is this bad. It poorly trained and poorly lead. It got hopelessly massacred fighting the Chenyans

They adjusted in the Second Chechen War. The Russians are notorious for starting slow in wars, then they'll throw troops at it until their enemy cries "Mother Russia".

70 posted on 02/28/2022 7:35:01 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: McGavin999
Ummmm, each of those young military aged men could have produced lots of Russian babies. Now they are worm food.

Yep. Reading about Russia, you'll find that their history is so tragic. They are always making boneheaded moves like this one. Maybe it's the vodka. But I thought Putin is not a drinker?

71 posted on 02/28/2022 7:36:02 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: ModelBreaker
Problem is the USSR no longer exists and the quantity edge is no longer as overwhelmingly in Russia's favor.

For example a whole lot of Stalin “quantity came from the Ukraine, the the central Asian states . Putin has no access to them now

72 posted on 02/28/2022 7:36:04 PM PST by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: marktwain
Why is Putin wasting ammo on hi rise apartment buildings? That’s what I can’t figure out. Or are these fake CGI clips produced in Hollywood to rile up the Ukraineophiles at home and abroad? Hoax News with Bret Baier even played a really badly made fake video of a poor young child being wheeled into an empty ER with the actors forgetting their lines as they poorly acted their way through the propaganda skit.

I think Ukraine News must have a ton of stock footage of gas oven explosions in high rise buildings they’ve kept on hand just for this purpose. You’ll see a burnt out apartment with early 2000’s model automobiles in the streets.

73 posted on 02/28/2022 7:36:57 PM PST by atc23 (The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
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To: Renfrew

A few years ago, our esteemed military leadership was ok in shutting down the only Abrams tank factory in the USA. Trump stopped it thank God.


74 posted on 02/28/2022 7:37:28 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Adder

That was hilarious. The Science has spoken!
By the end of this week, the narrative will likely be one of three things:
1) On the verge of victory, Putin gasses civilians, or
2) Putin releases deadly Optimus Prime variant on innocent Ukrainian civilians, or
3) random false flag, probably an attack on a ship, since that’s how it’s usually done.

Each option has it’s merits. 1 has it’s proven track record, though it didn’t really work in Syria all that well. 2 has been ultra-effective recently, but will it work again, or have they already pushed it too far? 3 has worked really well a couple of times, but failed once, though the failure didn’t stick. Tough decisions for the Deep State.


75 posted on 02/28/2022 7:40:31 PM PST by cdcdawg (Everyone who disagrees with me is a Qtard blogger!!!!)
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To: proxy_user

Quantity is its own quality?


76 posted on 02/28/2022 7:40:40 PM PST by moehoward (.)
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To: D Rider

I would not be surprised if Putin is taken out ending this which should tick off the Biden occupation to no end as it would put an end to Hunters cocaine money


77 posted on 02/28/2022 7:41:02 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: Renfrew

Well, Russia isn’t bogged down nor are they retreating.

Meanwhile, here in America, 2.6 MILLION illegals have invaded, we lost Afghanistan, have shut down oil pipelines and the rogue Government has instituted vax cards/ID’s in many places. Of course John Kerry suggests it’s all because climate change.

I’m sure if we merely print more money, zero out the debt and go to battle with both Russia and China, all will be well, except any imports including medications. I’m also sure brilliant Biden has an incredible winning plan.


78 posted on 02/28/2022 7:42:11 PM PST by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: D Rider

“Ukraine was part of Imperial Russia since Catherine the great.”

Except for the parts that were part of Austria, Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and two attempts at independence after the Bolshevik Revolution.


79 posted on 02/28/2022 7:42:34 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: ModelBreaker

“As Stalin observed: Quantity has a quality all its own.”

That is sadly correct. Ukraine is outnumbered 10 to 1. That means they have to win every battle. One loss and they go down.

So far they have been very good / very lucky, but that can’t continue forever.


80 posted on 02/28/2022 7:43:21 PM PST by Renfrew
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