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To: Cronos

“His Plan A to quickly take over Kyiv and put in a puppet failed.”
Link, please.

“Plan B to gain the East and all of the southern coastline to Moldova failed in April - with the sinking of the Moskva.”
Link, please.

“Plan C to gain just the Donbas and east failed in July.”
Link, please.

“Plan D to gain just the Donbas is in the process of failing.”
Link, please.

“He is snubbbed by the leaders of Turkey and Kazakhstan - Kazakhstan.”
Opinion - there’s more going on with Turkey than one snub.

“He has been cornered for some time and his desperation of fake referenda and throwing in conscript bodies reeks of desperation.”
Link, please.

“His flailing at the “external enemy” won’t work - he needs to consolidate his position at home - so the flailing will be internal, expect more purge”
Link, please.


79 posted on 01/14/2023 1:24:09 AM PST by BobL
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To: BobL

Plan A to quickly take over Kyiv and put a puppet failed — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hostomel

Plan B to gain the east and all of the southern coastline to Moldova failed in April - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mykolaiv
- with the sinking of the Moskva - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Moskva

Plan C to gain just the Donbas and east failed - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Lyman

Throwing in conscript bodies reeks of desperation — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_mobilization


87 posted on 01/14/2023 7:35:11 AM PST by Cronos (.)
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To: BobL

Putin’s Russia is the successor state to the USSR. The USSR had used blitzkrieg tactic in 1968 in Czechoslovakia and in 1979 in Afghanistan, where they managed to take over the country’s capitals. Putin tried the same in Ukraine.

Putin’s plan was to capture Kyiv in the same day and liquidate the Ukrainian government, installing a puppet regime led by the father of his goddaughter, Victor Medvedchuk.

“They [the Kremlin] viewed him as the main guy in Ukraine, their main interlocutor in Ukraine,” said a former Russian official, who knows Medvedchuk personally. “[Medvedchuk] was the legitimate way they could see their future influence [in Ukraine] … his ‘persecution’ is when this all began.”

Shortly before the war began, US intelligence claimed that Medvedchuk had been tapped by the Kremlin for a puppet government in a postwar regime

https://www.newsweek.com/if-putin-picks-puppet-ukraine-leader-viktor-medvedchuk-odds-favorite-1682429

Here’s a bonus video for you of people, on New Years, ostensibly Russians, dancing in Moscow to “Ukraine is not dead yet”(“Ще не вмерла Україна“).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rBvw0rj3yac&feature=youtu.be

This shows that not all Russians have fallen for Putin’s propaganda


119 posted on 01/15/2023 10:55:58 PM PST by Cronos (.)
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