Posted on 10/08/2022 12:58:30 PM PDT by McGruff
Russia’s Defense Ministry on Saturday appointed a general with a reputation for ruthlessness and long experience fighting in complex wars to command its forces in Ukraine, where repeated setbacks have provoked highly unusual public criticism of the military as incompetent.
Gen. Sergei Surovikin, 55, who was already the commanding officer of Southern Military District and whose troops have been facing a fierce Ukrainian counteroffensive, will lead what Russia still calls its “special military operation,” the ministry said in a statement.
Although the general has specialized in infantry for much of his career, he also has commanded the Russian air force. He led the Russian forces that intervened in Syria starting in 2015, and American commanders sometimes consulted directly with him there to avoid clashes.
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OU needs to do that for their football team.
Another one? They’re going through more Commanders than the Army of the Potomac…
(And no Meade or Grant in sight…)
His head looks like some kind of jellyfish.
When will they figure out Putler is the number one problem?
Russia hasn’t been serious about this because, unlike Biden, they didn’t want to set off Armageddon.
I think after the US-sponsored Ukrainian destruction of the bridge that went to the Crimea...a purely Russian region...they’re going to start getting serious.
But His Idiotness Biden doesn’t care about his responsibility for this: his corrupt business dealings with Ukraine as VP, his constant protection of his evil but destroyed son as President, and his random brain flashes that confuse everybody around him and are ignored by the press.
Biden is a drooling idiot and I honestly don’t know why whoever pulls his strings just doesn’t buy a new puppet.
Or why they aren’t at least a little more concerned about WWIII. You can push Russia only so far and I think Russia will retaliate for this attack on the bridge to the Russian Crimea.
What a lousy assignment.
The UK’s need to take out this guy and Prigozhin . Send a message
Kadyrov ....
A "purely Russian region" that happens to be legally a part of Ukraine... and which voted to secede from the USSR along with the rest of Ukraine in 1991.
I'll say this for the Russian Generals, they seem to be dying at the front at a lower rate than they were earlier in the Special Military Operation. I guess they're learning!
there is no “Russian Crimea”
it still belongs to Ukraine, no country recognizes Russia’s illegal annexation
so you’re incorrect to say it’s “a purely Russian region”
Did you guys get spanked?
Putin to the new guy:
“No matter how big the hog is, you’d better bring home the bacon.”
American saying quoted by baseball manager of the Tigers, Brewers and champion Astros, Phil Garner, whose nickname is Scrap Iron.
Transparent with tentacles?...
Crimea Overwhelmingly Supports Split From Ukraine To Join Russia
March 16, 2014
Texas left marks.
I just checked...ouch.
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