02-27-2022, 11:48 PM
Of course, incompetence by the Russian armed forces, at least in the ground is laughable. Soldiers not being told that their exercises near the border are an invasion? Motorized units and tanks running out of fuel in enemy territory? Unless this is some ruse, such shows grave incompetence of the Russian equivalent of the Commander-in-Chief.
This would all get failing grades at West Point. Even at the platoon level one knows that logistics can easily decide a battle. A unit that runs out of food,fuel, or munitions will either walk into POW pens or be mowed down. Putin called for this invasion on the spur of the moment.
Ukraine is likely ahead of most of the West. It has few supporters of the former kleptocratic dictator Yanukovich to mess things up.That's how things are at least toward the end of a Crisis Era in a country handling the Crisis well.Beware such societies as enemies. Such a potential rift as a two-Party system may do more to promote wise choices by a Churchill or FDR.
If this is a 1T war it eill end most likely as status quo ante bellum for boundaries.As for Putin he might consider that bungled wars of a leader's choosing are not good for long-term survival in that role.
This would all get failing grades at West Point. Even at the platoon level one knows that logistics can easily decide a battle. A unit that runs out of food,fuel, or munitions will either walk into POW pens or be mowed down. Putin called for this invasion on the spur of the moment.
Ukraine is likely ahead of most of the West. It has few supporters of the former kleptocratic dictator Yanukovich to mess things up.That's how things are at least toward the end of a Crisis Era in a country handling the Crisis well.Beware such societies as enemies. Such a potential rift as a two-Party system may do more to promote wise choices by a Churchill or FDR.
If this is a 1T war it eill end most likely as status quo ante bellum for boundaries.As for Putin he might consider that bungled wars of a leader's choosing are not good for long-term survival in that role.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
