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Ukraine is the biggest country in Europe, did you expect a full occupation in 5 days?

• EugeneOZ 5y ago
  Putin did. He had a plan for a 2-days war.
• JumpCrisscross 5y ago
  > Ukraine is the biggest country in Europe, did you expect a full occupation in 5 days? Putin clearly expected air superiority and the fall of Kiev by now. You can see that in their logistics chain fumbling after the first forty-eight hours.
  • chrononaut 5y ago
    > You can see that in their logistics chain fumbling after the first forty-eight hours. Do you have more on the specifics of what happened here? I don't recall reading much about their supply line issues, but granted I haven't looked specifically for it yet.
  • threatofrain 5y ago
    There are only a few photos here and there over social media. I hope that Ukraine is able to resist the Russian military but I would wait to see whether these Unweighted Claims of logistical incompetence actually deliver on effect size. I do fear that Kiev will be lost in a matter of days.
• acdha 5y ago
  That’s different: most people were expecting Russia to have air superiority quickly and control of major roads, airfields, etc., even if that’s not most of the country. From the initial rush, I think the assumption was that they could blitz Kyiv and capture the fraction of politicians who didn’t flee, on the assumption that a lot of people would stop fighting by then. Air superiority would make everything else they do easier and they appear to have thrown away a lot of their more heavily trained troops on those air drops, none of which can be helping morale.
• stjohnswarts 5y ago
  A blitz for Kyev and surrounding and killing the government didn't seem so unlikely given how close it is to russian territory and given how small the Ukrainian army is.