re: Putin is getting backed into a corner

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Russian plans were for a very quick victory.

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That was plan A from Belarus. Once they moved to Plan B left Belarus came from the Russian side the attrition war started. A slow grind. But yes there was a lot of western propaganda that was saying Russia was trying to win it fast while they were also admitting it was a war of attrition. The west loves to talk out of both sides of it mouth at once. "Russia is weak!"... "If we dont stop Russia now they will roll across all of Europe!". Its amazing how many people fall for this weak propaganda and repeat it on here like simpletons.

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If that happens, the oligarchs could either flee and forfeit those assets to the US, or they can stay and pretend to sacrifice for the common good.

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If it came to that the US would be cutting deals with those guys left and right.

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One of the major points of this war was to slowly bleed Russia dry. Hopefully this is true

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This has always been the strategy with them. It’s how Reagan toppled the Soviets. Got them into an arms race they couldn’t afford and let the faults of communism implode them


They simply don’t have the economy to be a world military power. They have nukes, without that they’re pretty shitty militarily. China is the only one who can afford to be a military power besides us

Are you ok?
The russians landed at the airport 5K from the capitol city of Ukraine in the opening of the war lol
What was that all aboot

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That was plan A from Belarus. Once they moved to Plan B left Belarus came from the Russian side the attrition war started. A slow grind. But yes there was a lot of western propaganda that was saying Russia was trying to win it fast while they were also admitting it was a war of attrition. The west loves to talk out of both sides of it mouth at once. "Russia is weak!"... "If we dont stop Russia now they will roll across all of Europe!". Its amazing how many people fall for this weak propaganda and repeat it on here like simpletons.

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Man wtf are you talking about? Of course they were trying to win the war fast. The whole point of the northern front was to capture Kiev and decapitate Ukraine’s government. They failed spectacularly. THEN it turned into a war of attrition because the Russian army is garbage water. Not the Ukraine is all that great either but still.

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Trained by Nato...and at this point of the war, way better than Nato.

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No they’re not. They have the advantage in drone tactics but their regular infantry don’t get enough training time before getting to the fight. Their casualty rate is so high that not enough combat experience even stays in the ranks.

Combat experience is invaluable but it doesn’t replace good training and discipline. Iraq was one of the largest and most combat armies in the world in 1991 and they got steam rolled in about 3 days by an army that had almost zero actual combat experience but was the best trained in the world.

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their regular infantry don’t get enough training time before getting to the fight. Their casualty rate is so high that not enough combat experience even stays in the ranks.

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Their Azov battalion is one of the best in the world. But it just serves as the old guard now. It keeps the conscripts at literal gun point in the front lines. The Azov and elite units of the army got destroyed in the first few years of the war attacking Russia. Now all they can do is hold the line and die. But its still better than the western PMCs who went there, they fled once they realized what it meant to fight a war where the artillery and airforce can actually hit back.