The Russian Clocks Are All Ticking

[yortsed snacilbuper]

Putin, apparently, is now directing some of the military activity on the ground in Ukraine long-distance from Moscow—he is reported, for example, to have denied requests from some units for permission to retreat from Kherson. Such interventions are always a risky choice for civilian leaders far removed from the battlefield. The Kremlin boss assuming command is, of course, easy fodder for Hitler-in-the-bunker memes, but even Russian imperial history should be a warning to Putin: When Tsar Nicholas II decided to assume command of the Russian empire’s forces in World War I, his own advisers warned him that personal association with failure could destroy his reign. “Consider, Sire,” one wrote to him, “what You are laying hands on—on Your own self, Sire!” (Another warned him bluntly: “The army under Your command must be victorious.”)

Putin is running the same risk. One of the many looming deadlines he faces is the onset of winter, when fighting will slow, Russian morale will sink even lower, and supply issues will worsen. The Russian high command and its officers almost certainly want to win this war as a way to recover from the shame and dishonor of their staggering incompetence over the past seven months. But if they lose more men and territory because of some harebrained order from Putin, will they again stand silently and take the blame?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-russian-clocks-are-all-ticking/ar-AA12gsri?ocid=msedgntp&pc=EE04&cvid=da254e3bab51495ca84242d127c040ef

[msongs]

1. putin's model for interference is, of course, adolf hitler nt

[brush]

5. Which is the last thing he should do. Hitler made...

huge mistakes which cost him the war. His first major one was halting the German tank corps at Dunkirk when he had British army cornered on the Beach. He could've captured the Brit army right there and the war in the western front would've been over as France, Poland and rest of Europe was beaten.

He of course went on to make serious mistake in attacking Russia too late in the year. The Russian winter and other things contributed to his lost in the eastern front.

I hope Pootie keeps it up. He never even served in army and was not a particularly briliant KGB officer.

[duforsure]

2. Putin has lost his war already,

And I think his generals, his oligarch's, and the Russian people are done with him now, and will force him out soon. His desperation is showing.

[PortTack]

3. His new conscripts are getting 1-3 days training...literally, given a sleeping bag and a rifle.

He cares nothing for his ppl or the country…only his own ego.

[Danascot]

7. No, no comrade

Is sleeping bag, not body bag.

[PortTack]

10. Maybe doubles for both? Sad isn't it!

[True Dough]

4. Getting out of Dodge...

Link to tweet

[3Hotdogs]

8. That's some shit. Is that Turkey?

Interesting....we had only a few hundred guys going to Canada to evade Viet Nam draft. Thing is, by 1970, most of us knew the V.N. war was based on bullshit and was unwindable.

Pootie is in trouble.

[Marcuse]

9. Much worse. Russia has suffered Nam level KIAs in only seven months.

[Irish_Dem]

6. We now have a desperate psychopath in total control of the RU military.

Things will get worse for both sides.

This is probably why Biden has been sending warnings directly to Putin.