RE: Russia and Ukraine
February 6, 2025 at 12:44 pm
(This post was last modified: February 6, 2025 at 12:46 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Aside from a general observation about how competent underlings are a threat to an incompetent dictator....the situation for russia was that all of their initial assumptions turned out to be wrong simultaneously. If any one of them or just a couple had been wrong, they could have(at least potentially) dealt with that. Once the decision was made to pursue the active phase of the invasion despite all of this it became a literal death spiral in ukraine and at home in russia.
I suspect that we're dealing with an internal clock. I don't think that everyone from the top to the bottom is ignorant or incompetent in general or of the specific facts of their failure. The decisionmakers believe they have a compelling reason to die trying.
I suspect that we're dealing with an internal clock. I don't think that everyone from the top to the bottom is ignorant or incompetent in general or of the specific facts of their failure. The decisionmakers believe they have a compelling reason to die trying.
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