You can post whatever you like, it would have meaning if you had the power of foresight, which you don’t.
Russia & Ukraine
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You can post whatever you like, it would have meaning if you had the power of foresight, which you don’t.
Putin- being the genius that he is or is not- is implementing a plan to avoid general mobilization by giving orders to various regions/states/oblasts/ethnic rulers/whatever to raise regional/local forces. Vlad will hand out dollars and bennies to help the regional entities raise troops and then they will send their troops to help vlad and they all will look like volunteers and he has avoided general mobilization.
Not a bad plan in theory. But here is where Vlad's "genius" falls apart a bit.
Some pundits believe that that will result in a pantload of problems for Vlad. Putin - and indeed the Soviet Union before- got their power by suppressing all the many factions/republics/ethnic forces and snuffing out any competition or threat to Moscow. Indeed of late there have been reports that Vlad has even refused to honor some of the generals beyond a certain level even where they have been successful because Vlad does not want to create any heroes other than Vlad- which apparently happened in one of the Chechen wars. One general started getting a bit too popular.
So some of the pundits think that this regional recruitment and troop training and arming and all of that to avoid general mobilization is very, very risky business for Vlad and may cause him lottttts of problems. There are a lot of regional players out there in Ruskieville that would love to be funded and supported to develop some local troops and they have no intention of sending them to Ukraine.
Be careful Vlad. You are not all that smart.
Also, and I will spare ya a replay- but back after the AFG withdrawal I said that eventually the Taliban would be joining up with muslims in K-stan and Chechnya to help give Putin problems, and if the CIA were smart it would get over its butt-hurt about AFG and help the Taliban to do that. Lots of Uyghurs in K-stan and they are not happy with China on that piece. So there is the China angle as well.
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Ohh yeah, Russia trying to take out Zelensky and his government is a “new” strategy. Id be careful with that rhetoric if I was Putin. He doesn’t want that to become a two way street.
What's goot for da goose kamrad..
I am pretty sure that Zelensky is a Nazi.
Lots of them down at the synagogue there.
And the little girl with down syndrome that they killed in Kiev? Yeh, Nazi.
Funny, it sounds like a throwback to the days before strong centralized states and standing armies. Lots of battles throughout history have been lost due to the unreliability of mercenaries and tribal/vassal levies.
It doubt it will be a major stability problem for Russia since they already shed most of the potentially separatist ethnic republics when the USSR broke up. Definitely will increase corruption, though.
Yeh. I dunno. Problem is that Putin is spread so thin now and resistance anywhere is ultra-problematic. Some of the ethnic groups may or may not have separatist plans but he still needs their support.
Chechnya has troops fighting with Russia but there are also Chechnyans fighting in and for Ukraine.
And one of his prime sources of recruiting is amongst the ethnic Tartars- except there are many ethnic Tartar who went to fight with Ukraine and have a couple hundred years of mistreatment by the Russians in the Crimea on their minds.
Both of those groups are muslim too, which makes them susceptible to "other influences" and not interested in all of Vlad's Russian World View crapola.
Just sayin, any division anywhere would be problematic. What's his name there in Chechnya probably has carboard cut-out of Vlad in his bedroom but the rebels are getting rowdy at home and if he has to choose between having his troops in Ukraine or back home- or at least to some degree- that might be a decision he has to face.
Put it this way, if Russia Wins then the West together with Ukraine lose or if Russia loses and then so do the West and Ukraine, due to Russia's rusty nuclear arsenal. Pretty much the same development awaits the forthcoming invasion of Taiwan.
Then you have the consequences of mass starvation and migration.
So perhaps not a checkmate but a bit of a stalemate. Nobody wins F all in the end.
You can of course w@.k yourselves off by making imaginary plans about how Russia will be carved up like some birthday cake, but with F knows how many operational nukes, even if they aren't gonna land with pinpoint precision (I mean why does that matter when it comes to nukes?), the outcome is dire and catastrophic for most. Oh well, it's either the nuclear end or climate that will end us. May as well enjoy your reserves of fine whiskey.
Then you have the consequences of mass starvation and migration.
So perhaps not a checkmate but a bit of a stalemate. Nobody wins F all in the end.
You can of course w@.k yourselves off by making imaginary plans about how Russia will be carved up like some birthday cake, but with F knows how many operational nukes, even if they aren't gonna land with pinpoint precision (I mean why does that matter when it comes to nukes?), the outcome is dire and catastrophic for most. Oh well, it's either the nuclear end or climate that will end us. May as well enjoy your reserves of fine whiskey.