You may be right when talking about RUSSIA, but this is Putin the madman. I can imagine how frustrated he is right now, he thought that Ukrainans would just give up like Afghan people after US left (and I really understand the afghans, no blame on them really). He might just be crazy enough to start a fight with NATO just *beacuse* it is the last "great" thing he will do.
Putin: ''lets blitz for Kiev!'' *fails to blitz to Kiev* .. ''Sir, do we continue and use everything we have?'' Putin: ''Yes.''
I agree, they could probably fill the skies with planes, drive tanks over tanks until they filled the rivers, and send their fleet so they could walk to crimea. Putin sent a sizable enough force as he really thought Ukrainans would just give up. He believes in his own delusions. That means he can make up any story and believe it is real. Will he blow up ships in Kaliningrad and say that the baltic states attacked? I'm sure that plan is somewhere on his desk.
yeah but at the rate they're losing stuff now they won't last until the end of the year. The main idea behind Russia's might was their military being experiences and well trained combined with it being large. Their equipment is sup par compared to Chinese or western technology. Now that the Russian Army has proven to be an unhinged mess without a solid central command structure capable of handling an entire modern army doing one massive operation they don't look that impressive anymore. A large group of badly trained soldiers with sub par equipment is a joke to any modern army.
Last edited by P for Pancetta; 2022-02-26 at 05:30 PM.
No he will count on the Swedes being "neutral" until "whoops we are speaking russian in schools now". And he know finland isn't worth it, going through finland is like choosing the mud swamp over the highway. They are a meat shield that he will eventually have to deal with.
It's nowhere close to Russia's total force that's for sure, but it does seem pretty telling as to how well Russia can project said force, IE not very well by the looks of it. Even then, it's probably enough. I don't see the Ukrainians holding Kiev for that long, and once it falls so does the government for all intents and purposes. It just takes longer than anticipated.
I also have a suspicion that said government arming the populace is armed in part at poisoning Putin's victory. They know they can't win, and they also know that whenever the territory ends up a client state or a puppet, it's going to have plenty of armed anti-Russian partisans running around the place. Ukraine is only at the beginning of its woes I'm afraid.
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At least we kicked them out of the eurovision song contest. "oh noooo"