That’s nothing new, Russia’s armies have mostly been inept. They usually only at defense, and mostly because of winter. The Crimean War was between two inept armies.
Ours has the perfect “rear admiral.” No time for boasting.
What’s a useful analysis of the deep state’s child sex trafficking headquarters in the Ukraine?
I find no moral champion in this fight. When a new source takes sides it makes me wonder if it is just propaganda. So much fake news and fake blogs and fake posts where is one to go.
Does this 40-mile convoy have any air support or are they sitting ducks for drone or aircraft strikes?
Then Ukraine doesn’t need to be in NATO, everyone wins. Sheesh
Slate should spend more time explaining what happened with the Afghanistan debacle. I do not know about anyone else but the performance of the Biden Regime in Afghanistan was pitiful, shameful, and treasonous. Biden and the Perfumed Princesses of the Pentagon really let down our boys over there.
If your forces don't know what their mission is and why they are fighting - it doesn't make any difference if you have the best equipment and most advanced technologies.
While Russia is clearly in the wrong, I feel sorry for the poor hapless troops.
If you look at WWII, the Russian way of fighting is throwing tons of men and equipment in the general direction of the enemy. They were still taking disproportionate losses in 1945, but they had so large an army they didn’t care.
Now they have very limited resources, and can’t fight a war of any significant length.
Is this like the other? DEBUNKED: Corporate Media’s Top Trending Ukraine Stories Turn Out To Be Complete Fakes.
My brother has friends in Ukraine and from what he is hearing the Russians don’t want to fight which is causing huge problems for this Biden financed invasion and much frustration for Putin.
All I want to know is where the hell are Republicans and where are the calls for an independent investigation counsel into why Biden sanctioned US energy and lifted energy sanctions on Russia?
And just like that, a bunch of Freepers agreed with Slate.com
When I see Mitt Romney, Fox News, Richard Spencer, Ben Shapiro, CNN, and a significant number of Freepers all agreeing, I start to doubt the narrative.
What if this war is over within 2 weeks? The list of who we can trust around here will have shrunken significantly.
If nothing else, Putin cured COVID-19. I haven’t heard much about it in last few days. So, there’s that.
It is propaganda.
Some of it may be true; It is only day 5.
Russia has lots of firepower. It can do lots of damage.
The question is: will doing lots of damage get it what it wants? Does Putin believe doing lots of damage can get it what it wants?
Not much reason for Russia to stop, until it starts receiving lots of damage. It takes a lot of damage to the troops in Ukraine to count as damage to Russia.
“useful analysis of the Russian way of war”
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It’s funny basing an “analysis” on some questionable tiktok videos and stories that have been shown to be hoaxes. Equally amusing is the idea that a conflict is supposed to be be over in 4 days. (eyeroll here) Millennials, even the Six Day War would’ve been too long to handle. “Why is it takiiiing sooo looong???”
It’s Slate.
It’s propaganda.
The fact of the matter is that Putin is intentionally holding back.
It’s SLATE. Nothing useful comes out of that Uber Leftist rag. The Russkies have always sucked at warfare.
If it were not for their atrocious weather in winter, the fact they are a nuclear power, and the fact that there’s nothing in Russia worth invading for they would have been conquered decades ago.
Russia is basically a country that the world needs not. They have nothing to offer or to contribute to society except the danger they represent because they know all of this to be true and they have a deep and dangerous complex about it.
” Ukrainian air defense systems hadn’t been destroyed. As a result, two Il-76 transport planes, each carrying 100 airborne troops, were shot down.”
Proof? And wreckage?
Your Rank and File Russian Solder is just a bullet magnet and a mobile trigger puller.
This makes up 60-70% of their troops.
I’ve read claims that the Russians intended to sieze the airfields, and land their quality troops there, and that the ground assault was relegated to poorly-trained conscripts primarily as a diversion.
Not sure if that’s true. The only thing I am sure of is that nobody knows shit...
BS.
Putin doesn’t want to destroy Ukraine. He is conducting surgical operations for now.
If Ukraine does not surrender, overwhelming force will be next, and hundreds of thousands will die.