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No, You’re Not Imagining It: Russia’s Army Is Inept
Slate ^ | Feb 28, 2022 | Fred Kaplan

Posted on 02/28/2022 6:52:04 PM PST by Renfrew

Troops are trained in rote set pieces, with no time devoted to improvising if things don’t go as planned.

Military operations designed to take place sequentially—Step 1, then 2, then 3, etc.—fell apart, catastrophically. If Step 2 hit a big obstacle, the by-the-book soldiers moved on to Step 3 anyway. Therefore, large troop-transport planes tried to land, even though the airport hadn’t been completely secured and Ukrainian air defense systems hadn’t been destroyed. As a result, two Il-76 transport planes, each carrying 100 airborne troops, were shot down.

Tanks aren’t supposed to roll through hostile territory all alone. They need to be escorted by infantry troops alongside or by combat planes from above, to avoid getting ambushed. Yet, in this invasion, Russian tanks are rolling all on their own or providing protection for reconnaissance scouts, but getting no protection for themselves. So, as might be expected, lots of Russian tanks are getting ambushed.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fredkaplan; lowmorale; putinsbuttboys; putinworshippers; russia; russianaggression; slate; ukraine
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To: ifinnegan

So you don’t really have a source.. got it.


41 posted on 02/28/2022 7:13:37 PM PST by ScottinVA (Enough. Cage the libs.. now. )
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To: Renfrew

Putin’s war plan makes no sense.

He seems to be view Odessa, a critical port with Black Sea beaches full of beautiful women, as a low priority.

He seems to view Kyiv, an administrative center full of fat bureaucrats, as a high priority.


42 posted on 02/28/2022 7:14:27 PM PST by Arcadian Empire (The Baric-Daszak-Fauci spike protein, by itself, is deadly.)
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To: Renfrew

One advantage that the Ukrainian army has in some places over the Russians is the nearly continuous fighting by Ukrainians against the separatist rebels in the Donbass area. Many people in the Ukrainian army have spent time in combat, while few of the Russian troops have. Experience counts.


43 posted on 02/28/2022 7:14:57 PM PST by freeandfreezing
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Ukraine was part of Imperial Russia since Catherine the great. There is alot of intermarriage and has been for over a century. I can imagine that the will to be the aggressor in this fight would be difficult.


44 posted on 02/28/2022 7:15:10 PM PST by D Rider ( )
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To: cdcdawg

Really?

FEMA and ready.gov say when the a-bombs fall, be sure to wear a mask and stay 6 feet apart in the shelter. Gotta prevent the spread.


45 posted on 02/28/2022 7:17:28 PM PST by Adder (Proud member of the FJBLGB community: /s is implied where applicable.)
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To: Newbomb Turk

Dream on. Sounds like you have not spent much time around tanks.


46 posted on 02/28/2022 7:18:02 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: proxy_user
Now they have very limited resources, and can’t fight a war of any significant length.

Putin can only survive by using a few Fuel / Air bombs in the middle of “Keef” and I’m sure he knows that it’s unlikely the US has the political will to respond in kind if he (Putin) hits a NATO country with a tactical low yield nuclear weapon. Grandpa Diaper doesn’t have the balls nor does he have the support of half the people in this country - after all, 60% of us are “white supremacists” and “Trump supporters” right? Anti vaxxers and deplorables. The people don’t believe a freaking thing the media says anymore.

Any NATO country that traffics in weaponry used to thwart Putin’s goals and kill Russian troops risks Hellfire - they better know it.

Are you listening Germany?

47 posted on 02/28/2022 7:19:25 PM PST by atc23 (The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
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To: D Rider

Yes. A lot of Russians have family and friends there.


48 posted on 02/28/2022 7:19:38 PM PST by Borges
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To: Skywise; All
Great minds... etc.

We, the people, are being played. In Russia, in Ukraine, in Europe, in the USA.

If President Trump was in charge, I would feel confident we would be played to our advantage, with the least deceit reasonable.

If Ukraine holds out, be ready for:

"Biden the masterful foreign policy genius".

"We must push the global reset more and faster!"

The Republicans and Patriots are all traitors."

"The LGBTQ soldiers saved the day!"

49 posted on 02/28/2022 7:20:23 PM PST by marktwain (Amazing people can read a persons entire personality and character from one photograph.)
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To: proxy_user
Now they have very limited resources, and can’t fight a war of any significant length.

They're a third-world country with first-world nukes and a shitload of petroleum.

50 posted on 02/28/2022 7:21:37 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: Renfrew

sorry, i don’t believe they’re interested in all-out invasion.

otherwise, we would’ve seen 10+ days of carpet bombing, shelling, and missiles.

what we did see were surgical strikes on US bioweapons labs.

articles like this is trying to get them to step it up so they deserve the phoney rep being pushed by the media

there’s definitely more going on


51 posted on 02/28/2022 7:21:42 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style )
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To: ScottinVA

“So you don’t really have a source.. got it.”

You seem to have a strong interest in this.


52 posted on 02/28/2022 7:22:14 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Renfrew

Proof of two Il-76s shot down? I keep hearing the claim but haven’t seen the crash sites. You’d think that would be plastered everywhere.


53 posted on 02/28/2022 7:22:16 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Renfrew

This analysis is laughable. It assumes that Russia intended to destroy Ukraine.

The objective, at least initially, was to force the Ukrainian government to capitulate with an absolute minimum of damage to the Ukrainian civilian population and infrastructure.

If Putin loses his patience, then you might see a different side of the Russian Military.


54 posted on 02/28/2022 7:22:21 PM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: RBW in PA

Yes, the U.S. Army, the Marine Corps, plus the Anglosphere armies, the French, Poles and others are tactically and operationally proficient. They can shoot, move, communicate, and sustain operations over distance and time.

Our problem in Afghanistan was strategic. Unrealistic and contradictory goals that battlefield success could not turn into a lasting strategic result. In short a political problem stemming from bad policy, not military failure.


55 posted on 02/28/2022 7:22:30 PM PST by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.")
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To: MagillaX
One nation state invaded another. If you cannot understand the clear moral and legal difference between being the aggressor and the defender, you are actively trying to avoid learning any thing abut this conflict,
56 posted on 02/28/2022 7:24:01 PM PST by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: nickcarraway

The Russians are fond of “flesh wave” tactics. Tanks are expensive, lives are cheap.

CC


57 posted on 02/28/2022 7:24:04 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: Renfrew

Russia is regrouping for the next big push March 1-7.


58 posted on 02/28/2022 7:25:25 PM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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To: DesertRhino

In this age of everybody with a cell phone, and the amount of play that other footage from the area is getting, how is it that nobody has produced video from the burning columns of tanks, the wreckage and bodies from the loss of hundreds of elite airborne soldiers, any of it?

Yet here we are, treating information from “sources” in a warzone as gospel.


59 posted on 02/28/2022 7:26:43 PM PST by M1911A1 (Drain The Swamp)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
So is the the latest talking point being put out to Putin's PR whores? "Boy if you don't surrender right now Putin going to get really mad at you.

" Bad new for you Alex Jones bots, Russia's Army really is this bad. It poorly trained and poorly lead. It got hopelessly massacred fighting the Chenyans

60 posted on 02/28/2022 7:28:35 PM PST by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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