Remember: Putin The Lying Liar Lies
Mar. 13th, 2022 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
agoodwinsmithI have seen this:
https://twitter.com/TOrynski/status/1502274459620855812?t=qGpKbNGQY4hYFAIFBN_tCw&s=09
Which is the story of how a village in Ukraine foiled four Russian tanks.
And, as a story, it panders to all of our biases: Putin is stupid, Russian troops are poorly trained, Russian troops are poorly equipped, blah blah blah.
I would like to remind people that the "stalled" convoy of tanks and whatnot wasn't stalled at all, and they have now broken up and moved into much more dangerous positions.
There is no doubt that some very novice troops, with aging machinery, have been sent out front to bumble and no doubt die in the service of their country by fostering the impression that Russia is on its last legs. No it is not. While the poor cannon fodder out front may not know what's going on, the people in charge have a plan and they are working the plan.
We must stop gloating and chuckling and accept that Putin would be perfectly happy to have Ukraine without *any* of its troubling population, and sacrificing a large swath of his own people to get it won't even cause him to blink.
We must send more help. He is relying on NATO delicacy.
https://twitter.com/TOrynski/status/1502274459620855812?t=qGpKbNGQY4hYFAIFBN_tCw&s=09
Which is the story of how a village in Ukraine foiled four Russian tanks.
And, as a story, it panders to all of our biases: Putin is stupid, Russian troops are poorly trained, Russian troops are poorly equipped, blah blah blah.
I would like to remind people that the "stalled" convoy of tanks and whatnot wasn't stalled at all, and they have now broken up and moved into much more dangerous positions.
There is no doubt that some very novice troops, with aging machinery, have been sent out front to bumble and no doubt die in the service of their country by fostering the impression that Russia is on its last legs. No it is not. While the poor cannon fodder out front may not know what's going on, the people in charge have a plan and they are working the plan.
We must stop gloating and chuckling and accept that Putin would be perfectly happy to have Ukraine without *any* of its troubling population, and sacrificing a large swath of his own people to get it won't even cause him to blink.
We must send more help. He is relying on NATO delicacy.
