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originally posted by: face23785
Also, to everyone responding with variations on "you can't tell the truth to a dictator," yes we've all heard the cliche. That's a very surface-level take.
As I already mentioned, what's worse than telling a dictator the truth is telling him a lie that gets him embarrassed on the world stage.
originally posted by: randomuser
originally posted by: face23785
Also, to everyone responding with variations on "you can't tell the truth to a dictator," yes we've all heard the cliche. That's a very surface-level take.
As I already mentioned, what's worse than telling a dictator the truth is telling him a lie that gets him embarrassed on the world stage.
So what is your explanation of Putin arresting and purging over 150 FSB officers for failing to give him proper intel, including the head.
Why no tactical nuclear weapons.
Russia knows these principles well. Indeed, the Soviet Union perfected many of them over the course of decades, and the post-Soviet Russian military inherited and further developed these doctrines to conduct large-scale mechanized warfare.
Instead, Russia assigned its premier armored force—the 1st Guards Tank Army, which is optimized for a rapid offensive using tanks and armored personnel carriers—to attack the eastern city of Sumy, about 190 miles from Kyiv. Conquering Kyiv was then entrusted to the troops of the Eastern Military District, the one with the least-trained and worst-equipped mechanized forces.
The natural path for Russian forces looking to encircle Ukrainian troops in the pocket around Popasna, Rubizhne, and Severodonetsk would be to advance from Izyum southeast toward Slovyansk, and from the area around Russian-occupied Debaltseve northwest along the same highway to Slovyansk. But although Russian forces around Izyum have been trying to drive toward Slovyansk, they have somewhat oddly begun pushing out to the west, away from the rest of the Russian forces operating in the Donbas rather than toward them.
It suggests that the Russians have truly forgotten everything they and their Soviet predecessors ever knew about how to fight mechanized warfare on a large scale.
Putin admits Ukraine invasion is an imperial war to “return” Russian land
Throughout the past few months, Vladimir Putin has offered up all manner of outlandish excuses for his invasion of Ukraine.
a reply to: AuditTheAudit
d) they have a right wing nationalist militia called the IRA
1991 in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, representatives of the party elite of that time made a decision to terminate the Soviet Union, without asking ordinary citizens what they wanted, and people suddenly found themselves cut off from their homeland. This tore apart and dismembered our national community and triggered a national catastrophe. Just like the government quietly demarcated the borders of Soviet republics, acting behind the scenes after the 1917 revolution, the last leaders of the Soviet Union, contrary to the direct expression of the will of the majority of people in the referendum of 1991, destroyed our great country, and simply made the people in the former republics face this as an accomplished fact.
I can admit that they didn’t even know what they were doing and what consequences their actions would have in the end. But it doesn't matter now. There is no Soviet Union anymore; we cannot return to the past. Actually, Russia no longer needs it today; this isn’t our ambition. But there is nothing stronger than the determination of millions of people who, by their culture, religion, traditions, and language, consider themselves part of Russia, whose ancestors lived in a single country for centuries. There is nothing stronger than their determination to return to their true historical homeland.