The Russian Military Is Having a Hard Time Adapting

The bulk of russian forces involved in this campaign seemd to have not been informed they were going into ukrane until right when it was happening. When has there been a major war in which the or state didn't bother to tell its army until the last minute that they were actually going to invade? Iam deeply skeptical at this point that they can achieve their polical objectives, even if they were ever achievable. The two big decisions they made that really have shaped this operation is, first, completely unworkable assumptions about ukraine and a const of operations that essentially involve trying to make thunder runs quickly.

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