Posted on 03/08/2022 9:58:39 AM PST by RomanSoldier19
Andrey Kozyrev laid out reasons why Putin may have misjudged his invasion of Ukraine. He says Putin overestimated Russia's military, not realizing its budget had been embezzled. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has stalled amid tough Ukrainian resistance. A former Russian foreign minister claimed that widespread corruption is among the reasons for the Russian military's apparently poor performance in the invasion of Ukraine.
Andrey Kozyrev, who served as foreign minister under President Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s, put forward what he said were misjudgments made by President Vladimir Putin in ordering the invasion.
In the thread, he claims Putin overestimated the Russian military, which he dedicated billions of dollars to modernizing. But this money, Kozyrev claimed, may have been lost to Russia's endemic corruption.
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I can hear Hunter Biden now…. “Dad! Think of all the wealth we would have if only you were Russian!”
Who says other nations can’t learn from our Democrat Party?
Gotta love business insider and msn, they have almost perfected propaganda over the nazis.
Completely believable.
I read one reason the 40 mile convoy is stuck is due to disintegrating tires. Old. Brittle. Pics of trucks driving on flat.
TIRES! You’d think the generals would at least kick the tires before a mechanized invasion.
The 40 mile convoy isn’t stuck, it’s abandoned.
Intramural!!!
Popcorn...
I guess all of those Russian BMPs are suffering from dry-rotted tires that blow out their sidewalls.
That is a pretty impressive piece of equipment.
So, do the Ukrainian oligarchs’ yachts in Cypress create an offsetting penalty to the Russian oligarchs’ yachts there? I sense the difference is that US aid has a lot to do with Ukrainian oligarch yacht lifestyle while internal Russian government corruption funded the Russian oligarchs’ yacht fleet in Cypress.
And the yachts are moored right off the coast where American State Department money has bought summer homes for American officials and American oligarchs. It’s a club.
Chinese made crap tires.
Well stop Stalin!
Chinese tires!...........................
Sounds like the US
Both sides have their criminal oligarchs. We have them too.
I see what you did there.
Globalist Putin was looting the country.
I effed up. A BMP is a tracked vehicle. A BTR is wheeled.
That pic is I believe a Russian Pantsir Mobile Surface to Air missile battery.
They bought tires from their closest ally, China.
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