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Putin is NOT crazy and the Russian invasion is NOT failing.
Daily Mail ^ | 3/2/2022 | Bill Roggio

Posted on 03/02/2022 3:00:48 PM PST by FreedomForce

Sympathy for the outnumbered and outgunned defenders of Kyiv has led to the exaggeration of Russian setbacks, misunderstanding of Russian strategy, and even baseless claims from amateur psychoanalysts that Putin has lost his mind.

A more sober analysis shows that Russia may have sought a knockout blow, but always had well-laid plans for follow-on assaults if its initial moves proved insufficient.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: biden; billroggio; dailymail; putin; russia; thedailymail; ukraine; vlad
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1 posted on 03/02/2022 3:00:48 PM PST by FreedomForce
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To: FreedomForce
Those Javelin Missles are awesome, but they can't stop Ivan all by themselves.


2 posted on 03/02/2022 3:03:41 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (Let's go Brandon)
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To: FreedomForce

I’m inclined to agree. CNN’s Hertling is doing what his employers want - selling a rah-rah narrative - rather than saying what he really thinks. Shame on him. I’m sympathetic to the Ukrainian cause, but some of the optimistic hyperbole is just off-the-wall.


3 posted on 03/02/2022 3:06:35 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: FreedomForce

Information that sounds somewhat reasonable and realistic.

Wild!


4 posted on 03/02/2022 3:07:25 PM PST by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: FreedomForce

I read this earlier today. It is a sober message.

There is a lot of hope around the underdog story here. But in the end, Russia—for all their military shortcomings—will prevail.


5 posted on 03/02/2022 3:08:09 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

What they would be excellent for is combine them with Stinger anti-aircraft missiles and use them like the mujahideen in Afghanistan, turn Ukraine into one large guerilla war and make the life of the Russians miserable, perhaps throw in IEDs and see what happens.


6 posted on 03/02/2022 3:08:16 PM PST by srmanuel (`)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

He will never be able to hang onto that country. If Russia thought Afghanistan was bad wait until he sees what is in store if he manages to take Ukraine.


7 posted on 03/02/2022 3:08:26 PM PST by McGavin999 (To shut down the border tell the administration the cartel is smuggling Ivermectin )
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To: FreedomForce

Here comes the pivot. Kiev will fall and all the talking heads will be changing the tune


8 posted on 03/02/2022 3:09:25 PM PST by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: McGavin999

We’ll see. Afghanistan is about as backwards as it gets. Totally different battle plan.


9 posted on 03/02/2022 3:10:28 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (Let's go Brandon)
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To: FreedomForce

Putin is crazy, but it kind of is failing, because the whole strategy was for it to end before it even began. The fact that Russia didn’t role through in a rout was not good for them.


10 posted on 03/02/2022 3:10:51 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: FreedomForce

Is a Pyrrhic victory really a victory?

If Putin manages to take Ukraine at the cost of tens of thousands of dead young Russians who only months ago were drinking beer, dancing in clubs and playing video games

plus large numbers of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians casualties

and destroying beautiful European cities like Kiev and Kharkiv and Odessa

earning the enmity of the world, don’t count out China ultimately distancing itself from Putin

His only allies Venezeuala, Syria, Cuba, Myanmar

Reducing his own people to mere subsistence living in a total police state


11 posted on 03/02/2022 3:12:38 PM PST by Meet the New Boss (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie; McGavin999
It has nothing to do with being backwards, Afghanistan just can't be occupied.

But Ukrainians have hated Russians for a long time, not so with Afghanis.

12 posted on 03/02/2022 3:12:48 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: redgolum

Yep. I want to think otherwise, but GHWB Made the chicken Kiev speech, and Putin Is making Kiev his beeotych, I’m just being real. We need better leadership against the Putin/Xi axis.


13 posted on 03/02/2022 3:12:59 PM PST by scottinoc
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To: nickcarraway; FreedomForce

Sorry, earlier posy should have said, Putin is NOT crazy.


14 posted on 03/02/2022 3:13:23 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: McGavin999

Hes not taking it, hes cleaning it.


15 posted on 03/02/2022 3:13:39 PM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: FreedomForce

I was against involvement, from a military perspective, of NATO in this conflict. I believe it will be bloody and probably horrific to watch. The only thing that I am certain of, is that Putin will do it all again to the next country.

With that belief, I am not sure that we get a better opportunity to destroy Half their military than we have now. I sincerely doubt the Russians would recover after amputating the armored columns sitting in place in Ukraine. If Russia is going to go nuclear, then it won’t change the stakes with the next county he invades.

Perhaps we should consider the opportunity since the stakes don’t change.


16 posted on 03/02/2022 3:13:59 PM PST by Pete Dovgan
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To: FreedomForce
Putin is NOT crazy and the Russian invasion is NOT failing.

Bill Roggio is definitely not fluent in Newspeak, and the Ministry Of Truth is really upset.

17 posted on 03/02/2022 3:14:06 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: FreedomForce

He’s right but we can’t let that get in the way of freeper slugfests can we


18 posted on 03/02/2022 3:14:13 PM PST by wardaddy (1-20-21 if ever was a day needed a reckoning settled with blood....I'm with Bannon)
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To: FreedomForce

The author of this piece, Bill Roggio, did great War reporting from Afghanistan, and has Military experience.

He is very credible in my book, even when just airing his opinions.


19 posted on 03/02/2022 3:16:00 PM PST by BeauBo
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To: nickcarraway

Who was in the room with Biden and Putin when the strategy was discussed?


20 posted on 03/02/2022 3:16:50 PM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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