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Why the Russian Special Military Operation is failing
https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-putin-revamped-military-ukraine-invasion-11647469602 ^

Posted on 03/17/2022 3:42:22 PM PDT by vmirog91

When I went through ROTC training we were were obviously taught to respect the numerical superiority of the Soviet bloc Armour units deployed across the Iron Curtain. But I remember some of our NCO instructors mentioned that Russian enlisted personnel lacked strong NCO guidance....that they were heavily dependent on top-down leadership. After all these years...this holds true today.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bidensbuttboys; bidenswar; hielputlerfanclub; neocons4biden; nevertrumpers; putinpufferparade; russia; russiaescapesthetrap; russiaisfree; stephenfidler; thomasgrove; ukraine; ukrainewar
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1 posted on 03/17/2022 3:42:22 PM PDT by vmirog91
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To: vmirog91

https://archive.ph/vJPYD


2 posted on 03/17/2022 3:44:38 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: vmirog91

These people act as if history doesn’t exist.

Russia could flatten Uke in a day if it wanted to. Remember Chechnya? That it has chosen not to is NOT proof it can’t.


3 posted on 03/17/2022 3:44:47 PM PDT by TonyinLA ( I don't have sufficient information to make an informed opinion said no lefty ever.)
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To: vmirog91

This operation is special in the way the Special Olympics are special. All of the senior Russians involved used to ride the short bus to school.


4 posted on 03/17/2022 3:45:03 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: vmirog91

Their training certainly must be deficient. I’m sure most American combat vets will agree with me that when they get into a firefight mist will automatically react as they have been trained.

Also, the Russian tactics must really suck.


5 posted on 03/17/2022 3:46:49 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: vmirog91

Remember a female ex-vet telling me, proudly, that she refused orders.

She bever understood my resultant disgust towards her.


6 posted on 03/17/2022 3:47:05 PM PDT by mrsmith (US MEDIA: " Every 'White' cop is a criminal! And all the 'non-white' criminals saints!")
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To: vmirog91

U.S Afghanistan success story


7 posted on 03/17/2022 3:47:21 PM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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I watched Wag the Dog again last night.

They called the wagged country Albania, but it smelled like Ukraine.

Anything the globalist corporate gaslight presstitutes say about Ukraine is a lie.


8 posted on 03/17/2022 3:47:31 PM PDT 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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Ba da bing


9 posted on 03/17/2022 3:47:38 PM PDT by Nifster (I’m see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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Dance boy needs US billions to fight failing, incompetent Russians. 🤔


10 posted on 03/17/2022 3:48:45 PM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: vmirog91

20 years and Uncle Sam couldn’t beat some 7th century brutes


11 posted on 03/17/2022 3:48:55 PM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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To: TonyinLA

Only if they killed all the Ukrainians

No body cares about Muslim Chechnya


12 posted on 03/17/2022 3:49:18 PM PDT by Nifster (I’m see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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Top down military just like the Trashcanistan withdrawal.


14 posted on 03/17/2022 3:50:05 PM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Could have called it Serbia


15 posted on 03/17/2022 3:50:55 PM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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To: Zhang Fei

Patton understood you can’t operate armor in urban areas or terrain with concealment without aggressive infantry patrolling and combat engineers to sweep mines/IEDs.
Of course those jobs aren’t much fun.


16 posted on 03/17/2022 3:52:04 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: TonyinLA

Relatively cheap drone technology nullifies armor. It’s plain to see.

Javelin and Stingers are the bomb. Russian didn’t plan on that. It slowed the down to a crawl.


17 posted on 03/17/2022 3:52:36 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (Let's go Brandon)
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To: TonyinLA

And...the United States dropped more ordnance in Vietnam that WW2. Just fact. When a country wants freedom they will fight and die over 30 years, if necessary. Most professional military minds believe it will take 500,000 troops to take and occupy Ukraine. The number might be higher. Let Putin move all his chips to the center of the table. Read your military history. This isn’t Syria and this isn’t Chechnya


18 posted on 03/17/2022 3:54:03 PM PDT by vmirog91 (Burn Commies burn)
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To: bray

That is on Biden...not the US military


19 posted on 03/17/2022 3:54:59 PM PDT by vmirog91 (Burn Commies burn)
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Good
Let’s stop sending Azov Nazi brigade billion dollars worth of weaponry


20 posted on 03/17/2022 3:55:36 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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