Posted on 04/26/2022 3:51:57 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
WHEN RUSSIAN FORCES began to roll towards the Ukrainian border on the evening of Defender of the Fatherland Day, 23 February, Moscow was anticipating the capture of Kyiv within three days. Many outside observers – including the authors of this report – feared the destruction of the conventional Ukrainian military, even if they expected the fighting to last longer than Moscow had hoped. Moscow’s plan was for repressive measures to have stabilised control of Ukraine by Victory Day on 9 May. Instead, the Russian military was repulsed, suffering heavy losses, and is now embarking upon a limited offensive to try to secure Donetsk and Luhansk.
(Excerpt) Read more at static.rusi.org ...
Gee, from the guys that helped write the Russian Dossier that destroyed the Trump Presidency?
The inventors of disinformation speak.
Where’s the evidence RUSI wrote the phony dossier?
And who said the Trump Presidency was “destroyed”?
How is Ukraine going to take Luhansk and Donetsk (let alone Crimea) back? With what? Do the authors think Russia is just going to give up some day and leave?
Page 16 of the report gets into detail on Moldova which has become an object of Russian fascination in the past 72 hours.
The possibility of the Russian forces in Transnistria attacking Moldova is being discussed. No doubt the eradication of those forces is being discussed as well.
“Do the authors think Russia is just going to give up some day and leave?”
How long do you think Russia can sustain this war?
They (and we) left Afghanistan...and the Ukrainians are far more technologically mature than the Afghans. Urban guerilla warfare....
The USSR did just give up and leave.
Keep killing several thousand invaders every month until they leave. Repeat every month and repeat every month.
The nation with the energy resources can continue as long as they want. The only way I see it ending is if Russia has to pull their forces out to try to hold off a future attempt by China to take Siberia.
Problem is, all the urban guerillas in the occupied zones are pro-Russia. It's nothing like Afghanistan.
I was being sarcastic. But it’s British deep state people none-the-less.
The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI, Rusi),[2] registered as Royal United Service Institute for Defence and Security Studies and formerly the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, is a British defence and security think tank.
23FEB (O.S.) in 1917 in Petrograd was International Womens Day and the women marched. Also the weather had warmed up that week so more people came out 3ach day and the marches got more political. Additionally typesetters were marching as they were on strike because they did not get paid for punctuation. As the marches grew soldiers engaged the marchers and then started to mutiny. The tsar was out of town at army HQ and could not get back in. Final result was abdication and the establishment of the provisional government. 8 months later was the October Bolshevik coup.
Thank an interesting read.
A glance at the replies shows the usual skip overs.
“The flak only gets heavy when you’re over the target.”
I very seriously doubt that. If it was true, there would have been no internal conflict in those provinces, and the supposed Nazis wouldn't have had anyone to fight. BUT, there most certainly WAS such conflict.
Russia may have energy but they lack the industrial base to replace all the weaponry they’re losing and using. Their citizenry is also starting to suffer from the war in the form of 200,000 people unemployed in Moscow alone, unable to receive remittances from their relatives in other countries, and consumer goods are absent from Russia as indicated by the items Russian troops are looting from Ukraine.
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