Is Russia really the Superpower they think they are? By the sloppy conduct of their invasion of Ukraine, it could be argued that they are not. Putin, who thought four days would do it put false trust in his Generals. It has been four weeks and counting. Watching from afar, a surprised China is giving pause about their intentions to seize Taiwan simply because world reaction and Ukrainian push back, being so demonstrably successful, might inspire the Taiwanese to emulate them. The Chinese have no concerns anymore about Biden’s response. They know what it will be because they own him. But so do the Ukrainians.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has revealed serious weaknesses in equipment, training, planning, leadership, and motivation. Miscalculation of Ukraine’s ability to resist has shown that years of corruption by Russian Generals, who raked off defense funds into their personal accounts, has produced inferior equipment, poor training, and poor planning, causing it to fall easily prey to Ukrainian determination.
Russia has a very thin to non-existent NCO Corps, and its junior officers, without skills or given the authority to make battlefield decisions in the heat of combat, Undoubtedly this accounts for the deaths so far, of four, possibly a fifth or more, front-line Russian General Officers. These last two issues alone can account for Russian conscript soldiers’ high desertion and surrender rates.
A lack of food and fuel supply has found Russian equipment abandoned undamaged on Ukrainian roads in sub-freezing weather, deserted by their hungry and freezing crews willing to surrender for food and warmth. Too, over-consumption of alcohol use by unmotivated soldiers has seriously contributed to Putin’s slow advance.
Since
the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia’s military has doubtless
stood very low in the pecking order for funding because Russia, suddenly
converted from Soviet dictatorship to whatever it is now, had no real
enemies anymore to defend itself against. Eastern European countries,
also liberated, were going their own ways, and Western Europe got soft;
Tourism flourished, and America, uninterested in anything but a stable
Russia, deferred to the quiet on the Eastern front while turning our
attention to the growing threat of Islamic terrorism. All but ignored
was a growing post-Mao China seeing its future in trade and commerce as
the best weapons to undermine and subvert the West, especially America.
Joe Biden is our most obvious example of a CCP plant..............To Read More....
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