Posted on 03/08/2022 9:58:39 AM PST by RomanSoldier19
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This story seems to have some merit. I wonder how many officials in charge of the military are getting “gently interrogated” in Moscow?
Whatever corruption is behind the Russian Army’s supply and equipment problems will likely cease fairly quickly. Any deficiencies in resources, technology or time will not be so easily addressed.
Imho, mud and Ukrainian resistance.
5.56mm
Hilarious!
Generally, to more authoritarian a regime is, the more corruption there is because all the normal forces (such as a press or opposition party, etc) that counter corruption is removed.
I have no doubt the Chinese military is even more corrupt.
BTRs are 8-wheeled APCs thus subject to dry rot of tires. BMPs, BMD’s and the many variants of the MTLB are all tracked vehicles
You are correct. Please see my Post 19.
overestimated the Russian military, which he dedicated billions of dollars to modernizing. But this money, Kozyrev claimed, may have been lost to Russia’s endemic corruption.
Unfortunately I saw your post 19, after I put up my post. Cheers.
Notice the media fails to mention in his next post
“3. The West. The Russian ruling elite believed its own propaganda that Pres. Biden is mentally inept. They also thought the EU was weak because of how toothless their sanctions were in 2014. And then the U.S. botched its withdrawal from Afghanistan, solidifying this narrative.”
No mention of Biden’s ineptitude solidified Putin’s resolve.
Those are special, huge tires.
My Jeep tires are about $500!
It was weird. No advertising in it. Just glowing articles on everything Soviet. Serious scientists designing the next what ever space project , happy kids, Young Pioneers stuff and of course the obligatory "Great Patriotic War'' story with the obligatory picture of some Red Army hero captured in the moment of battle and ''who was this hero''? And as the caption would read the hero was found to be such and such and he either lived to defeat the "Hitlerites'' or he /she died in battle. It was weird.
My favorite SOVIET LIFE cover story from circa 1978, “LEONARD BREZHNEV WINS THE LENIN PEACE PRIZE”. Who would imagine that he could “win”?
Yeah, right?
Imagine if he had lost?
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