When you need your homeland utterly destroyed, just call on Joe.
Posted on 04/14/2022 10:08:17 AM PDT by Wuli
After horrendous battlefield losses [snip], Vladimir Putin is concentrating his efforts in Ukraine in the eastern provinces of the Donbas. {snip] [since] his original plan for a blitzkrieg against Kyiv nor his plan for multiple operations in the north, south and east worked, [snip] [Putin] seems ready now to embrace longstanding principles of war: simplicity, unity of effort and focused logistics. [snip] No more disputes among commanders over logistical resupply. Rather, the Russians will pursue a single coordinated effort with, initially, more-limited aspirations in the Donbas.
Unity of command has long been recognized as an indispensable prerequisite for victory. Battlefield directions will no longer emanate from the Kremlin or Moscow but from a field headquarters. Mr. Putin’s recent appointment of Gen. Aleksandr Dvornikov to command all forces in Ukraine is consistent with the principle of unity of command. It’s also worrisome. Unlike Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, a politician-cum-general, and Gen. Valery Gerasimov, reputedly the designer of the original attack plan for Ukraine, Gen. Dvornikov is not a staff officer in Moscow. He is a seasoned combat veteran with previous responsibility for operations in Chechnya, Crimea and Armenia.
More significantly, Gen. Dvornikov was Mr. Putin’s choice in 2015 to command Russia operations in Syria. Sent in to prop up Bashar al-Assad at a time when Syrian government forces were near defeat, Gen. Dvornikov turned the tide of that conflict and kept Mr. Assad in power. His tactics were brutal, including dropping “dumb” bombs in population centers, using banned cluster munitions, and employing siege tactics like those seen in Mariupol. While the orders to use chemical weapons in Syria likely came from Mr. Assad, the United Nations’ Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic concluded that many of these operations were conducted by the Russian air force.
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When you need something utterly destroyed. Just call on Muslims.
Doubling down on stupid.........................
Patton was right. We should have kept going. Unfortunately we had a lot of Russian sympathizers then and now.
I have lost track. Is this the same butcher that got a bunch of Vagner guys blown up in a US air strike when Trump was still president and wiping out ISIS?
Obama was the butcher of Syria.
Yes.
Putin just made him the number one target for Ukraine.
Just because odumbo and Creepy Uncle Joe funded, armed and trained isis doesn’t mean...oh, wait...yes it does...never mind.
“Butcher of Syria”
Nope.
No bias there.
Islam sucked the knowledge, wealth, ad vitaility out of the Hellenistic world and left nothing but deserts and poverty.
A lot of evil people here just cheering for death and destruction
Did you read the article?
“Putin Taps the Butcher of Syria...”
I’d pay to see that.
Then I’d pay to unsee it.
Yes, I think both Patton and MacArthur (in Korea) were right, and FDR (WWII) and Truman (Korea) were wrong.
Why?
My evidence is in what came of Japan post-WWII. It had to give up its empire and the idea of imperialism. What you see is Japan’s huge economic success post-WWII and how that success did not need an imperial Japan ruling over all kinds of Asian neighbors.
Russia might have begun to understand the same thing, that it did not/does not need a revival of imperial Russia to do well economically; that democracy domestically and peaceful economic cooperation can work even better in the long run. The majority of indidivual Japanese are more prosperous than their counterparts during Japan’s imperial build up. Yes, Japan per capita GDP did grow leading up to 1940. But it grew at an even more rapid pace in the post-WWII era and now has the highest GDP per capita in Asia. Imperialism was a disaster for Japan.
With China and Korea I do not believe either South Korea & the U.S. or China would have been worse off, and I expect all three would have been better off, with a clear South Korea victory and elimination of the dicators in North Korea. Yes, China would not like a U.S. armed South Korea right on its border, but as that South Korea would not have become an aggressor against the much larger China, giving that China no cause to be an aggressor against it, China would have learned to live with a whole Korean penninsula that was free and democratic and western oriented. U.S. and South Korean military posture and expense in that situation would likely have become no larger and very possibly less than today, with MAD preventing any rehash of the Korean War. Instead the rogue dictators in North Korea have been a benefit to no one - keeping possible military confrontation alive and the international tension that goes along with it.
There were three sets of butchers in Syria - Assad & Russia on one side, the mostly radical Islamist Syrian opponents of Assad on another side, and ISIS both opposing Assad and trying to get Syrian opponents of Assad to join it. ISIS failed the most and Russia-Syria succeeded the most, while the civilian population of Syria was the massively greatest loser.
If only your hero Obama was still president.
With the evidence of that on this web site..we might just do well to even avoid a full blown nuclear war.
Try to explain that both Ukraine and Russia are not worth taking that chance and to contain the thing and let them kill each other off...you’ll get accused of being whatever.
Yet they’ll still piss and moan about this administration and forget that it is this administration that has caused all this.
Now try and explain that one to those like myself.
Dvornikov
Not a muzzie
When you need your homeland utterly destroyed, just call on Joe.
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