re: #158 ckkatz

Retired US General Hertling’s guess as to what the Russian goals and plan were:

Goals:
[CDR -> Commander]

The thread also goes over his analysis of the plan.

It’s an excellent plan unless the Ukes have been trained by the US since 2014 and have built a core of highly trained, motivated NCO’s to lead their troops so the Officer Corps can concentrate on tactics.

Sadly for the Russians, both of those “buts” are true. The Ukes have used their limited resources to build their Army into one based on the American model. And they are just waxing the Russian army.

We used to think the Russian Army was the second best in the world. Now, it’s the second best in Ukraine.

The Russian Army has starved its troops of a professional class of NCO’s. It has crippled itself, and there is no way they they can win without using “alternative weapons”.

That’s CBN, for the curious: Chemical, Biological, and Nuclear.

And if Putin thinks he’s gotta win this war or die of a sudden (instantaneous) case of lead poisoning, he just may reach for the Big Red Button.

And then we will see who really runs Russia.

Hopefully, he’ll back off, declare victory, and retreat, spending his capital on getting whatever he can in the Donbas.

But the Ukes have got their backs up, and don’t want to give them a gotdammed thing. And who can blame them? I’d spit in their collective faces and force them to pay for the rebuilding of everything they have blown up, plus death benefits.

Putin could not have fucked the puppy any worse than he has. It is a total omnishambles, a clusterfuck, a Del Rio dog fight.