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In chess, what can look like a blunder in the short term can be a brilliant move longer term. I want to believe you're right, but it's too easy to say they're
by afro88 5y ago
In chess, what can look like a blunder in the short term can be a brilliant move longer term.
I want to believe you're right, but it's too easy to say they're performing comically badly. Putin and his cronies aren't idiots. I can't shake this feeling that there's a longer term play at hand and this is a part of it.
- matwood 5y ago> Putin and his cronies aren't idiots. Not idiots, but hubris has been the downfall of many powerful people.
- FpUser 5y agoI think he is an idiot / retard / criminal / whatever else goes here
- hh3k0 5y agoIt would be cool if we could refrain from comparing mentally handicapped people – using slurs, to top it all – to heinous war criminals like Putin. I mean, c'mon, that's super simple stuff.
- FpUser 5y agoYou know very well what I meant. Do you you really think I am trying to equate him to that poor mentally handicapped soul wandering streets?
- bcrosby95 5y agoI don't know if Ukraine will win, but I can't see this as anything but a blunder. The only reason Ukraine is getting this much aid is because of these blunders. If everything went well, they would be receiving a fraction of the military aid. Instead, you have the EU giving Ukraine fighter jets, among other things. So, maybe this was their plan. But it's still a blunder since I doubt their plan was to coax the EU into giving multi-million dollar pieces of military equipment to the Ukraine. And if it was, I don't see the upside here.
- afro88 5y agoDivert military resources away from nato countries so another invasion could begin with a split focus... china -> taiwan?
- bcrosby95 5y agoLol. So Russia is a sacrificial offering so China can take Taiwan? Putin got the shit end of that deal.
- afro88 5y agoNot at all. Where did I say that? Edit: to give you more of an idea where I'm coming from. It doesn't exactly look like Putin sent in the A team does it.
- JumpCrisscross 5y ago> doesn't exactly look like Putin sent in the A team does it He sent in his Siberia team. They suck. They appear to have been lied to about what they were doing. There is no military rationale for using them. It was poor planning and/or poor impulse control. The troops invading from the south are more competent, but by the time they reach the action Kiev will have their new Javelins and Stingers. More of these seasoned troops will be lost as a result. Putin is sensibly holding back Russia's modern kit (fighters, advanced electronic warfare equipment) Doing so helps maintain the narrative of a limited incursion in the east. It also prevents NATO from getting great intelligence on them. What is clear is he overrode his military advisors, or never had good contact with them in the first place. Best case scenario, he winds up with an insurgency to manage and a ruined economy increasingly taking instructions from Beijing.
- jacquesm 5y agoIncompetence can look like malice, but this isn't malice masquerading as incompetence. Putin gave the West - and in fact the rest of the world - time enough to get their act together, big mistake.