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Basically, Poutine really wanted to reconstitute the Soviet empire under a different name.

And he has skipped past any pretense of communism in his ideology going straight to Stalinist authoritarian rule. No need to bother with a workers revolution, or collectivisation. And he has a populace already conditioned to accept it, and the state apparatus basically intact to enforce it. Where he seems to be miscalculating is his belief that citizens in other former Soviet states and 'liberated' Warsaw Pact nations share this conditioning and want to return to Soviet style governance.

Has anybody read the books published by the former GRU colonel and defector Vladimir Rezun under the pen name Victor Suvorov? The Liberators in particular gives some real insight into an historical context for current events.
 
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He also tends to exaggerate but it isn’t going well for the Russians. Literally an example of how not to execute a war when you hold superiority on paper

Russia would need 200K combat troops to take and control Kiev. After KIAs, WIAs, deserters Russia probably has 80-85K currently. The rest are all logistics, support, etc. This is going to be very hard for Russia to achieve.
 
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Russia would need 200K combat troops to take and control Kiev. After KIAs, WIAs, deserters Russia probably has 80-85K currently. The rest are all logistics, support, etc. This is going to be very hard for Russia to achieve.
If anyone is to blame besides Putin it would be his advisors. I understand the need to lick cojones to survive but give such detached assessment just tells you either how incompetent or how survivalist these advisors are
 
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First, that assessment has now dropped to 90%.

Second, your looking at it entirely wrong. Once that number drops to 70-80% the Russian military is in dire trouble. It won’t be able to fulfill its military objectives.

The number I quoted is from 2 days ago. What 90% are you referring to? If its the info below then this 90% figure has nothing to do what number of Russian forces intact.

U.S. officials assess that Russian President Vladimir Putin has placed “90 percent of his pre-staged combat power across the border into Ukraine,” and Russian forces “have available to them — in and outside of Ukraine — the vast, vast majority of their total combat power,” said the official, who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity.


Where did you get this "once that number drops 70-80%..." info from? Is this also from Sen. Rubio? lol. Let's say Ukrainian forces were at 30-40%, so Russian forces being at 70-80% would still be more than enough to accomplish their objectives. Don't just look at one side of the equation. Smh

Russia would need 200K combat troops to take and control Kiev. After KIAs, WIAs, deserters Russia probably has 80-85K currently. The rest are all logistics, support, etc. This is going to be very hard for Russia to achieve.

200k to take and control Kyiv? Where the hell are you getting your numbers from? Never mind. You seem to just make up fictitious numbers. Half the cities population has fled, and you think 200k troops are needed to take and control Kyiv. Russia is occupying a much bigger land mass (albeit less urban and more pro-Russian popln.) than Kyiv called Crimea and with much less troops.
 
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Basically, Poutine really wanted to reconstitute the Soviet empire under a different name.

The Article:
Distorting the Origins – The Maidan “Coup”
Putin retold his distorted history of the conflict with Ukraine. About Ukraine’s Maidan uprising in February 2014, he said:

“The fact is that after the state unconstitutional coup in Ukraine, which was actively supported, unfortunately, by Western countries … they said directly that they spent five billion dollars on it, they distributed hot pies on the Maidan and so on.”

Response to article:

The Karen is literally handing out food what may very well be meat pies lmao 😂
 
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Russia would need 200K combat troops to take and control Kiev. After KIAs, WIAs, deserters Russia probably has 80-85K currently. The rest are all logistics, support, etc. This is going to be very hard for Russia to achieve.
If Russia is not that weak as you depicted, Nato and US won't be such a chicken repeatedly making statement to assure Russia it won't militarily intervene.
 
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If anyone is to blame besides Putin it would be his advisors. I understand the need to lick cojones to survive but give such detached assessment just tells you either how incompetent or how survivalist these advisors ar

Putin is surrounded by imbeciles. The fact they invaded during Rasputitsa just confirms the idiocy.
 
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And he has skipped past any pretense of communism in his ideology going straight to Stalinist authoritarian rule. No need to bother with a workers revolution, or collectivisation. And he has a populace already conditioned to accept it, and the state apparatus basically intact to enforce it. Where he seems to be miscalculating is his belief that citizens in other former Soviet states and 'liberated' Warsaw Pact nations share this conditioning and want to return to Soviet style governance.

Has anybody read the books published by the former GRU colonel and defector Vladimir Rezun under the pen name Victor Suvorov? The Liberators in particular gives some real insight into an historical context for current events.
Yes, I do have Suvurov's four major books. :enjoy:

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The first one I read was Spetnaz, then I got the rest. Those four books have been with me for decades.
 
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