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>He’s not winning on the timelines his military brass originally predicted. Untrue. I remember them being asked for a deadline in a press conference in March 2
by pydry 1y ago
>He’s not winning on the timelines his military brass originally predicted.
Untrue. I remember them being asked for a deadline in a press conference in March 2022 and they said (verbatim) "it will take as long as it takes". Theyve not deviated from that position either, because Clausewitz.
That "3 days to kiev" thing was General Mark Milley's prediction to congress, which was later morphed by western propaganda into "Putin's goal" and is now presumed by the terminally naive to have been the overriding goal.
>Putin and Ukraine are in a stalemate
If it were stalemate the body bag exchange ratios would probably be a little lower than 44:1 and the TCC probably wouldnt be kidnapping quite so many men out doing a grocery run.
- Antibabelic 1y agoTo be fair, I remember reading about a Russian state media accidentally posting an article written in advance for the capture of Kyiv, right around the time the war started. That was pretty much the assumption in the piece.
- pydry 1y agoIf it's the article im thinking of it proclaimed that all of Ukraine and all of Belarus were now part of a glorious "greater" Russia. I think if they really wanted the latter they could have made it happen by now. The leadership apparently werent saying anything at all to anyone in the first two weeks or so for opsec reasons, and that apparently led some of the state media propagandists to get a bit creative.