Russia's invasion: what level of support does Putin have at home?
The Briefing Room
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Is It Your Expectation and Belief That Pooti Is Getting the Truth From His Advisers and His Generals?
One wonders whether this is the beginning of a far more deliberate and attritional process, whereby the attacker grinds down the defender slowly. And that's one of the choices that president putin will be looking at now. I mean, it was stalin who said that, when he comes to armies, quantity has a quality all of its own. The offensive will probably grind forward, but it will take some time, because i think they will be caught in the suburbs of kiev. At some point the russians have got to either go north or south through the nipro river valley to link up their northern and southern forces. And they'll be caught outside nipro.
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