While it has begun slowly to adapt, Ukraine’s military is still deeply rooted in Soviet-era offensive tactics and culture, centralizing decision-making at the top while penalizing subordinate soldiers who dare to deviate from the plan.
"Ukraine's losing cuz communism!"
lol
Isn't Russia deeply rooted in Soviet tactics too?
Like, that can't be the issue if they're both using them.
When the propaganda was still "Ruzzia is losing hard" of course they blame said losing on "being rooted in Soviet era" and Ukraine winning on NATO training and equipment. I bet we will soon read some galaxy brain claiming "Russia learned from NATO while Ukraine didn't" because of course NATO is when winning.
That's the eastern Europe for you. In postsocialist countries, even after over 30 years of the destruction of socialism, literally every failure gets blamed on socialism.
I'm not really knowledgeable about this at all, but I could've sworn I've heard that inflexibility in plans and overpenalization of subordinates for not following exact orders is a huge flaw in the US military. So they will literally project anything and everything lol
Holy shit i can't believe that's an actual quote.
More like This Plan B fucked
They could try surrendering lol. Russia has been pretty kind considering Ukraine keeps committing terrorist attacks against Russia.
I mean that's clearly the only sensible option at this point, but that would mean a political disaster for the west and for the Ukrainian regime.
Beebe is director of grand strategy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and a former director of Russia analysis at the CIA. Webb is an advocacy associate at Quincy and a former Marine Corps infantryman with combat service in Iraq
Wtf is a "director of grand strategy" or an "advocacy associate"? (Propagandists?)
Director of grand strategy is someone who is really good at hearts of iron iv.
Fucking minmaxers
"For your failed military excursions."
I think that the clear case to advocate for abortion instead.
i agree abort it.
How real are the claims that the Russian military is struggling/Putin is under threat from within? I'm assuming they are largely overblown in western media. Do they exist at all or is it a complete fabrication?
There are certainly no visible signs of that so far, and given how Prigo "coup" went I think it's pretty safe to say that there no actual instability within. Literally everybody in the government or the military immediately pledged support to the government. If there were any dissent before that, it's most definitely been rooted out after.
The biggest rift in Russia is caused by highly divided support for the war and for further mobilization. Majority of people stopped having positive outlook on the west and are in favour of self-sufficiency over Russia's government seeking substitutions from other countries, which causes some displeasure. General opinion of Putin is about neutral-negative, there is not much respect for him but he is seen as necessary. Overall the government is perceived as incompetent/corrupt (even before the war) due to it not fulfilling promises and shitty budget allocation on anything that is not a big city, and there is a desire for a stronger leader against the west, which could either be good if the communists manage to exploit that after Putin leaves or extremely bad, because a lot of hardliners aim for that role. Currently Putin is in a fairly stable position since dislike of the western countries vastly overshadows dislike for Putin. I don't see the cracks that would lead to him getting deposed yet (Its gonna have to be more than general dissatisfaction) so the best thing is to continue to observe how things play out.
There are plenty of people in Russia that oppose the war, and this causes tension. The most important thing we need to remember while all this western propaganda is flying around, is that Russia (or any country for that matter) isn't a monolith, nor are their militaries. Whether or not there is actual "struggle" depends largely on people's interpretation I think.
@yogthos Idgaf about any of this anymore. Another failed proxy war that cost Ukrainians and Americans everything, and given us nothing in return. Oh, and BTW the reason why Russia bombed Ukraine, was because Ukraine back in 2014 was literally shelling tf out of the Donbass region a heavily russian populated region in the country.
The whole thing is an insanity, and yet the west just keeps doubling down on this because they see Ukrainian lives as cheap and western leaders don't care about the suffering their own people are now experiencing.