Russia 'might not be able to take Kyiv': Western officials say desperate Putin is trying to recruit mercenaries from Syria and Chechnya to replace up to 7,000 dead soldiers, with Kremlin's senior generals killed as they are forced to the front

Daily Mail ^ | 03/17/2022 | DAVID WILCOCK, DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR and CHRIS JEWERS FOR MAILONLINE

[SeekAndFind]

RE: That will just get more ukranians killed and Z don’t care because his bank acct is getting filled.

I’ve seen numerous posts about this including allegations of mansions in Miami but when I ask for evidence, all I get are articles from RT NEWS, a Russian website controlled by the Kremlin. The accusations came from a Zelensky rival who lost the Ukrainian election for President. Maybe you can do a better job of presenting evidence instead of simply accusing him of robbing the country’s treasury.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner.

There was a further agreement after the fall of the USSR, signed in 1994.

The memorandum prohibited the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States from threatening or using military force or economic coercion against Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.

As a result of other agreements and the memorandum, between 1993 and 1996, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons.

Ukraine, which has the former USSR’s largest number of nukes GAVE THEM UP in exchange for security guarantees whuch Russia agreed to!

Did Putin adhere to that? He took Crimea and fomented a separatist war in eastern Ukraine. He also invaded Georgia.

With this record, how the heck would Eastern European countries not be nervous and seek mutual protection via NATO?

So regardless of what people say, NATO never was the aggressor towards Russia. Unfortunately, I can’t say the same for Putin.

By his invasion of Ukraine, Putin simply PROVED the fears of the Eastern European countries.

[AZJeep]

Most proxy conflict do not have the leadership targeting each other.
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I guess, you are right.
In most cases, the “leaders”, even the most crooked and corrupt, end up in a villa in Davos, with most of their loot intact, even if expelled from their own country.

[stormer]

Yup. Russian military has never valued the concept of NCOs - sergeants are appointed based on patronage rather than competence or experience. Junior officers aren’t allowed to make any kind of decision and if politically connected fail upwards until they’re stalled by incompetence where they spend their days stuffing their pockets.

[buwaya]

The old pre-revolution Imperial army did have experienced sergeants. I think they had 25-year enlistments for them! They did lose most of their cadre in the WWI meatgrinder though. This no-sergeants thing was a later Soviet outcome of their rather screwed up conscription system.