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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Typically, if the Kremlin says something, you consider the opposite true.

  • Armour: severe shortage, soldiers often attacking in unprotected vehicles.
  • Personnel: being outsourced from North Korea.
  • Air defense: cannot hold back a drone swarm or decent missile.
  • Rapid reserves: enough to keep Bashar al-Assad ruling Syria. Oops.
  • Losses: 600 000 dumbest ones dead or wounded, 2 million smartest ones in emigration, paying taxes to some other land.
  • Economy: interest rates over 20%, insolvencies widespread, butter sold from locked fridges.

...I can totally see them continue for a while, but not a long while. And the breaking point isn't linked at all to Putin's goals.