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Absolutely hilarious 🤣

As a German I've read lots of analysis from German Wehrmacht.

Starting 1943, they were almost all like the piece above.

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Sep 11, 2022·edited Sep 11, 2022

This is an absolutely hysterical - and somewhat desperately inconsistent - attempt at spin. This whole operation has been a shit-show for the Russian armed forces from the get-go - a shockingly poor display of planning, leadership, logistics, technology and fighting spirit. This latest collapse (and rationalizing) digs the hole even deeper.

It’s like watching the fall of the Soviet Union all over again. We always knew the system was rotten, but we never imagined how deep the rot went.

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restating the premises as evidence for conclusions is not what's called an analysis. but your piece makes an excellent 8th grader "pick a side and promote it even if you don't believe it" project.

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One thing that becomes clear, is that the Russian Army today is not afraid to retreat as reqired, not as the old Red Army was.

Stalin's stubborn defense proved costly and although Hitler could be just as stubborn, von Manstein's riposte during the Stalingrad campaign is considered brilliant.

Whether Russia ripostes at Kharkov or just retreats, remains to be seen.

But the Russian Army is a lot more sophicated in all its maneuvre. No more broad front stuff either.

There is also a lot more reliance on smaller unit autonomy and inititiave than the heavy top-down Red Army command.

It would therefore be a mistake to attribute any long term interpretation to developments on this scale.

No one relaly knows what the Russians intended at Kiev, althugh they had no compunction about retreating there, either which indicated nothing about their resolve.

More broadly, Putin has to win while Biden is free to lose interest as he becomes ever more unpopular in America and may easily enough abandon the war whenever it becomes inconvenient which is the U.S. pattern.

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sir, I believe you are confused about who the aggressor is. If I remember correctly, wasn’t it Russia who started the war ( oops, I meant special military operation)?

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The war between the Biden crime syndicate and Russia has taken another turn. When people in Germany begin freezing to death, NATO might decide to partition Ukraine. On the other hand, Truman refused to fight an all-out war against North Korea (just as LBJ refused to fight North Vietnam) because they feared China would send troops in support of its allies. If China shows its hand and supports Russia, the New World Order will crash and burn.

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Hahahaha

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