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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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.
Ours can't figure out which bathroom to use but their lipstick is on and adam's apple covered up with concealer.
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/
“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:
The force sent to take Kiev:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfBSNIGVQmg
I live this alliteration. I may have to steal it, crediting you of course.
So he sent in the JV team?
You should be utterly embarassed for posting that sort of infantile idiocy
Bkmk
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.
“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.
Russia has enough advantage that their army can be inept and still overwhelm Ukraine.
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.
Yup. But at that point it’s an international failure regardless.
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.
Yes they were really inept in WWII. So inept they drove all the way to Berlin, drunk on vodka.
Staring with Vlad Putin.
Starting with Bill Clinton and George W. Bush too. They helped get us here.
And Barack Obama.
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.
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