Posted on 10/10/2022 8:03:02 PM PDT by dennisw
The horrifying attacks on Ukraine yesterday– are a sign that the Russian president is, if not yet desperate, getting nearer to it.
They represent a highly significant psychological shift for the beleaguered leader. He is no longer trying to win the war: now he is simply trying not to visibly lose it.
Previously he could have defined victory however he wanted. But by annexing Ukrainian regions, he has upped the already high stakes. If he cedes so-called ‘Russian’ territory, he will become the Tsar who gave away Russian land instead of the strongman who restored the empire.
And by ordering partial mobilisation on September 21 he ensured the war now touches every Russian family. Putin has made the catastrophic mistake of calling his own bluff.
He realises he is fighting for his political life and, as we have seen before, he is ready to sacrifice countless lives at the altar of his own ambition. In 2000 he let 118 men die on the stricken Kursk submarine rather than accept help from the West to rescue them.
Now he is prepared to accept appallingly high casualties among the ill-trained conscripts he has sent to Ukraine.
The Russian army has been revealed as shoddy, incompetent and ill equipped. Money that should have been spent on maintenance was siphoned off. Meanwhile the Ukrainian army, equipped with 21st century weaponry by the West, and highly skilled partly thanks to British training, has inspired awe with its indomitable spirit.
Battlefield failure reflects badly on Putin personally because he has built himself up as a warrior president. Some years ago, I met a group of Russian officers who, after alcohol had lubricated tongues, were scathing about Putin’s military pretensions. ‘I wouldn’t want a virgin telling me what to do on my wedding night,’ one said.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Truth hurts, don’t it.
How’s this for truth?
‘German army has ammo for only two days of war – media’
https://archive.ph/mov4y#selection-903.10-903.63
We are now in a war with Russia so you would be OK with Biden taking over American media and outlawing the Republican Party?
Good post.
Yes, many people on all sides are ignorant.
Quit picking on Berlin_Freeper. The poor bastard hasn’t had a warm shower in months.
Truth hurts, don’t it. How’s this for truth? ‘German army has ammo for only two days of war – media’ https://archive.ph/mov4y#selection-903.10-903.63Thanks for confirming, crank. When it suits you the "Western/US/UK/EU/NATO propaganda ridden media" is truth. LOL!
Here is some hurtful truth for you crank, Germany is not at war but is helping Ukraine who are.
STFU noob and mind your manners.
Noticed how you skipped that further truth I linked you.
“The German Army (Bundeswehr) has enough ammunition for only one or two days of warfare, the German edition of news website Business Insider (BI) reported on Saturday, citing defense industry and parliamentary sources.”
Hmm, could you all beat yourselves out a wet paper bag?/s
And, yo, Ukraine still waiting for them 100 tanks you all are failing to send them. Chop. Chop.
Quit picking on Berlin_Freeper. The poor bastard hasn’t had a warm shower in months.Are you competing with crank for top crackpot on FR?
Here is crank posting a link to the Putin Stooges hated Daily Mail when it suits him:
https://freerepublic.com/tag/by:cranked/index?more=125316291
Noticed how you skipped that further truth I linked you.I responded:
Here is some hurtful truth for you crank, Germany is not at war but is helping Ukraine who are.Are you really unable to follow a few sentences??
So you all couldn’t beat yourselves out of a wet paper bag.
Got it.
You have to go back to WW2.
Just like a British centrist ww2 war nut.
I know Aussies who would spit in your neo-nazi Putin Stooge face.
BTW how do you like your King Charles?
Smelly and dirty New Yorker in Germany says what?
Go ahead and invent crank bull-crap.
Hurtful truth for you is Germany is part of NATO.
Some more truth for you: I am American.
Watch out for German sausage
Conservative American says you are a disgusting Putin Stooge.
Not inventing anything.
The link article speaks for itself as to the state of utter imploding Germany is experiencing and its not even winter yet.....
I’m not a royslist. King Charles the Turd is of no importance to me. Now quit calling me a nazi. Are you of slavic background? You seem too emotional to be a cool, calculating Kraut
German sausage is a naturalized citizen.I wonder where he was born.
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