Hi guy, I hope you are doing well.
“Something’s wrong here.”
Yes.
Even though I spent 6 yrs. in Uncle Sam’s boys club, I don’t know...
1. The Bear doesn’t utilize combined arms or battle space management very well.
2. American military would have had Kyiv, Odessa and Mariupol in a week. What happened to Ivan?
3. Putin may have terminal cancer and czar delusions?
Like I said, I stayed at a Holiday Inn one time.
Your guess is as good as mine.
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“1. The Bear doesn’t utilize combined arms or battle space management very well.”
I agree. And the evidence of Rus-on-Rus friendly fire north of Kyiv speaks to this. Various units had no idea where their pointy tip was as they advanced. That’s not good.
“2. American military would have had Kyiv, Odessa and Mariupol in a week. What happened to Ivan?”
You’re right that we would have taken those objectives quick and fast but then we’d have the same problems as the Russians in dealing with the local insurgency. But at least we’d get to part one.
“3. Putin may have terminal cancer and czar delusions?”
I agree on the tsar delusions. Listening to him talk about Russian speaking and ethnic Russian populations in other countries he comes off unhinged as if he’s the anointed protector of all Russians everywhere. He’s long made clear his intentions to impose Russian domination over the former USSR and Warsaw Pact nations. He’s lost touch with the fact that the Soviet Empire ended. It’s over. And Russia simply doesn’t have what it takes to do what the USSR did.
“1. The Bear doesn’t utilize combined arms or battle space management very well.
2. American military would have had Kyiv, Odessa and Mariupol in a week. What happened to Ivan?
3. Putin may have terminal cancer and czar delusions?”
Maybe this is true. But I have a different theory.
The troops Russia is using are apparently very green and were drafted shortly before the invasion. Putin has held his best troops back.
This war is designed to suck the West into a land war in eastern and far-eastern Europe. Russia has always won those - eventually - so they aren’t particularly worried.
The CCP is behind this, so the exhausted West won’t interfere with its later efforts in Asia. Putin is doing this for Xi. Biden is doing what he’s doing for Xi, too. The Wuhanic Plague didn’t work (apparently), so time for alternative approaches.
Sounds like a spy novel. Fits too well, though.
I didn’t see this post until now. Thank you for your service. If we’re just a couple of fellows who served in the military having a conversation, I’d want you to know that I appreciate that you played a role in defending my freedom of speech.