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by another2another
999 days ago
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Russia have thrown everything they have at Ukraine over the last year-and-a-half. Cruise missiles, hypersonic missiles, their best troops and naval assets. Now they're buying equipment from Iran (!?) and North Korea. Russia, in their deep USA envy thought they'd have their own Shock and Awe! 3 day SMO. Instead they overestimated themselves, and massively underestimated Ukraine. The cupboard is empty. The only thing they have left is nuclear weapons, which they're quite rightly terrified of using. All that remains now is a long slow and grinding defeat as Putin expends every available Russian male in his desperate attempt to remain in power and not back down. |
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I don't believe that's the case. Russian military doctrine has always been to reserve the best systems for the end-game, and front 'fodder' in the beginning stages of things.
I see Russia's war theatre manifest also in Syria, where the very same tactics are utilized to suppress the field.
"Shock and Awe" is a US doctrine. Russian is more "Shake and Hold".
"Massively overestimating themselves/underestimating themselves", is very difficult to contextualize, if you don't actually speak Russian.
>The cupboard is empty.
I'm sorry, I really don't agree. You might want to take a deeper look:
https://www.cna.org/reports/2021/10/Russian-Military%20-Stra...
You must, of course, steel yourself for some whiplash. The world is not entirely as it "seems".