Opinion | The losing strategy of underestimating Russia
www.washingtonpost.com
Russia remains a formidable power. The West should not assume it is a depleted military force.
  • freagle@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    The outset of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale war in Ukraine exposed Russia’s ground forces as incompetently led and beholden to a tyrant in thrall to his own arrogance and neoimperial ambitions. The ensuing stalemate, now well into its third year, has been a strategic calamity for Moscow.

    Wat?

    • davelAEnglish
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      1 hour ago

      I don’t know Hockstader—maybe he really drinks the Kool Aid—but either way, to stray from the party line is career limiting and may not get past WaPo’s editors.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      2 hours ago

      I don’t think the west has a winning strategy at this point, but if western powers were realistic regarding the capabilities of their adversaries they wouldn’t find themselves in the mess they are today.