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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

Troops are trained in rote set pieces, with no time devoted to improvising if things don’t go as planned.

Military operations designed to take place sequentially—Step 1, then 2, then 3, etc.—fell apart, catastrophically. If Step 2 hit a big obstacle, the by-the-book soldiers moved on to Step 3 anyway. Therefore, large troop-transport planes tried to land, even though the airport hadn’t been completely secured and Ukrainian air defense systems hadn’t been destroyed. As a result, two Il-76 transport planes, each carrying 100 airborne troops, were shot down.

Tanks aren’t supposed to roll through hostile territory all alone. They need to be escorted by infantry troops alongside or by combat planes from above, to avoid getting ambushed. Yet, in this invasion, Russian tanks are rolling all on their own or providing protection for reconnaissance scouts, but getting no protection for themselves. So, as might be expected, lots of Russian tanks are getting ambushed.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fredkaplan; lowmorale; putinsbuttboys; putinworshippers; russia; russianaggression; slate; ukraine
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To: wiseprince
Wrong

Putin's Russia, nor any other nation, has any legal, moral or intellectual right to dictate foreign policy to a neighboring nation.

Cuba been a Russian client state 90 miles off the coast of the US since the 1960s. That does not give the US the right to invade Cuba because we don't like their politics

It amazing how so many suppose smart" people fall for this bs propaganda lie.

81 posted on 02/28/2022 7:46:14 PM PST by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: Renfrew

US Marines : improvise, overcome, adapt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dBE8nvWUi8


82 posted on 02/28/2022 7:46:16 PM PST by rolling_stone
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To: RBW in PA
And ours is any better?

Ours can't figure out which bathroom to use but their lipstick is on and adam's apple covered up with concealer.

83 posted on 02/28/2022 7:47:18 PM PST by CAluvdubya (<---Need to change my name to CAluvNV since I now live in NV. )
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To: ScottinVA

There’s myriad sources. A simple search of trafficking and Ukraine brings it up. Here is State Department.

https://www.state.gov/reports/2020-trafficking-in-persons-report/ukraine/


84 posted on 02/28/2022 7:48:15 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: M1911A1

“In this age of everybody with a cell phone, and the amount of play that other footage from the area is getting, how is it that nobody has produced video from the burning columns of tanks”

Here you go. The Russia force that was sent to take Kharkiv:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/ukraine/video-2624857/Video-Video-claims-column-burnt-Russian-vehicles-Kharkiv.html

The force sent to take Kiev:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfBSNIGVQmg


85 posted on 02/28/2022 7:48:37 PM PST by Renfrew
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To: wildcard_redneck
Perfumed Princesses of the Pentagon

I live this alliteration. I may have to steal it, crediting you of course.

86 posted on 02/28/2022 7:49:30 PM PST by CAluvdubya (<---Need to change my name to CAluvNV since I now live in NV. )
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To: Skywise

So he sent in the JV team?


87 posted on 02/28/2022 7:49:36 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: cdcdawg
And just like that, a bunch of supposed “Conservatives” started acting just like Leftists. Instead of making a rational point in favor of their opinion they bile laced ad homine attacks total devoid of any rational content

You should be utterly embarassed for posting that sort of infantile idiocy

88 posted on 02/28/2022 7:49:36 PM PST by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: Renfrew

Bkmk


89 posted on 02/28/2022 7:51:30 PM PST by sauropod (Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.)
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To: MNJohnnie

They also seem to think a criminal like Putin is going to clean up all the trafficking and corruption in Ukraine. No, he just plans to replace their corruption with his brand of corruption, and further enrich himself and his cronies.


90 posted on 02/28/2022 7:52:18 PM PST by Cecily
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“BS.

Putin doesn’t want to destroy Ukraine. He is conducting surgical operations for now.

If Ukraine does not surrender, overwhelming force will be next, and hundreds of thousands will die.”

Agreed.


91 posted on 02/28/2022 7:52:31 PM PST by moehoward (.)
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To: Renfrew

Russia has enough advantage that their army can be inept and still overwhelm Ukraine.


92 posted on 02/28/2022 7:57:25 PM PST by FreedomForce
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To: reg45

No - he doesn’t want to DESTROY Ukraine - he’s trying to follow the actual rules of war and only attack military installations and then waiting for the civilian installations to surrender.


93 posted on 02/28/2022 7:57:39 PM PST by Skywise
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To: moehoward

Yup. But at that point it’s an international failure regardless.


94 posted on 02/28/2022 7:58:24 PM PST by Skywise
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To: Skywise

One way or another when this is over, there’s a lot of people who need to pay for getting us to this point, on both sides of the conflict.


95 posted on 02/28/2022 8:01:05 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nickcarraway

Yes they were really inept in WWII. So inept they drove all the way to Berlin, drunk on vodka.


96 posted on 02/28/2022 8:02:15 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: dfwgator

Staring with Vlad Putin.


97 posted on 02/28/2022 8:02:43 PM PST by Cecily
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To: Cecily

Starting with Bill Clinton and George W. Bush too. They helped get us here.


98 posted on 02/28/2022 8:03:16 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Cecily

And Barack Obama.


99 posted on 02/28/2022 8:03:34 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Renfrew

They aren’t outnumbered 10:1. Effectively its only 3 or 4 to one, if Russia goes all hands on deck. But Russia cant do that, its got other “fronts” to watch, just in case. So its more like 2:1, assuming both sides mobilize proportionately to their population. There will be more of a difference in equipment, but maybe not if the Ukes get more military aid.


100 posted on 02/28/2022 8:04:51 PM PST by buwaya
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