Posted on 01/31/2023 8:33:57 AM PST by marcusmaximus
The Russian military blogger Igor Girkin has issued his latest broadside against how Russian President Vladimir Putin is conducting his invasion of Ukraine.
Also known as Igor Strelkov, Girkin is a former Russian intelligence officer who played a major role in Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the conflict in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region.
He has given perceptive but unflattering assessments of Russia's military failures in Ukraine and his views on the military shortcomings of Putin and his commanders.
In a video posted on his Telegram social media channel on Monday, Girkin told an audience in St. Petersburg how he had predicted in May 2022 that Russia had already "failed" in what it calls a "special military operation" because there was no mobilization under way.
Over the course of the war, he said that Russian manufacturing "has fallen apart," citing the lack of access to foreign supplies. He then took aim at the Russian "generals and bureaucrats" running Moscow's war effort. With these people in charge, in his view, "it's impossible to conduct a real mobilization, real preparation or have a real war."
Although Putin announced a draft in September, a "brake" has been put on the call up, reiterating a view by many Russian military bloggers who say the country should be put on a full war footing. Girkin believes that Russian armed forces cannot manage with the personnel they have.
"That's why our president has completely withdrawn himself from leading the special military operation and delegated it to the minister of defense (Sergei Shoigu) who has prepared his army badly," said Girkin, "if you could call it preparation."
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Igor Girkin did not commit suicide next week..........................
A window cancer diagnosis will be announced shortly.
Putin’s boys will be Girkin his chain..............
Girkin claims Putin is in a pickle.
Thanks marcusmaximus.
So that would explain the slowly slowly approach by which the Russians are carefully destroying Ukraine military capabilities while they are learning everything they need to learn and know as they closely watch and monitor every move the west is making in Ukraine and as they get to learn about all the West’s weapons capabilities on the battlefield – as they hope beyond hope that when in desperation the West does launch a NATO-led response into Ukraine through Poland and other borders like Moldova that they can quickly destroy them and hope that the West will not in their madness resort to nukes in their last ditch final vain attempt to destroy Russia – hence the Russians are building and positioning huge forces and waiting for that moment to come, while they are slowly but surely destroying the Ukrainian army.
Lol, are we now to believe that Girkin is a Soros backed neocon? 😂😂😂
Take it up with Girkin.
Approximately 20 HIMARS units alone were enough to force a major redisposition of Russian forces. What would Russia face in a direct confrontation with NATO?
The rationalizations on why this “over by the weekend” war is now approaching the one year mark are becoming increasingly absurd. 😂😂😂
Stop making sense. Don’t you know Zelensky is getting ready to ride a tank into Red Square? 😉
What a strange world that you live in where Ukraine liberating its own territory is equivalent to marching on Moscow. 🙄
Btw, whatever happened to that Russian winter offense that was supposed to start as soon as the ground froze? 🤔
So far, Russia has not faced any of NATO’s best stuff, except maybe some of the intel gathering.
I think its pretty much happening. Zelensky needs to get to the negotiating table while he still has something to negotiate.
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