Putin is learning what happens when you surround yourself with kleptocrats and give them billions to modernize the military. Kleptocrats gotta klept.
If Putin survives his disaster, he might want to get rid of the yes men and bring in some realists.
“If Putin survives his disaster, he might want to get rid of the yes men and bring in some realists.”
But that is not the way of dictators.
I don’t think Russia has gone all out.
Putin has measured his advances and retreats, as in the case of Kiev, knowing full well what the tactics and cappabilities of the opposing army and it’s benefactors have in their arsenal.
Having fought and measured the West since WW-2, Russia’s myriad of advanced capabilities in weapons systems and technology did not just run out their expiration date by sitting iddly by through a ‘stagnant’ cold war.
I know for a fact, and here, some will roast me for being vague and not presenting evidence, but I DO know the Russians are ahead of us in ‘some’ underwater warfare systems.
I believe Putin has played his cards well,considering what brought him to this point.
A. Putin is more sly and more of a strategist than Biden will ever think to be.
B. Believe all these stories coming out of the war zone at your own peril.
When truth finally comes out and people are let down, because they were so sure and so emotionally invested into the narrative, those people I feel sorry for.
I pray for them because I know later in their life they will hate themselves, or should anyway, for having been so utterly duped not only of themselves but also for paying the narrative forward at the detriment of innocents in their lives.