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Of Russia’s effort to create a large, modern army, “The part which is modern is not large, and the part which is large is not modern.”
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And an additional good report from The Guardian, with a similar discussion of Russian military capability.
https://cnn.com/2022/03/15/opinions/russia-ukraine-petraeus-bergen/index.html
This war remind me of the Chechnya war back in 1994 and left Chechnya in ruin along with thousands of death on both sides. Putin did not care and the Russian citizens were powerless at that time. Will Ukraine war differ? I sincerely hope so...
https://npr.org/2022/03/12/1085861999/russias-wars-in-chechnya-offer-a-grim-warning-of-what-could-be-in-ukraine
By coincidence I just came across this article in The New York Times. It should be a free link.
Russia’s Brutality in Ukraine Has Roots in Earlier Conflicts
I've been listening to Petraeus and Clark. Five Russian generals have been popped by the guys with blowguns. OoohRah! Seems their comm is so bad the brass has to go to the front of the columns to get them moving. They don't delegate to non-coms and with no comm . . .
So far, the Russian military has been revealed to be much of a clown show. That's good and bad. Good because they don't have shit. Bad because they still have some serious bludgeon type weapons and their leader is not the sort that loses gracefully. Sort of like someone refusing to accept defeat in an election. Alas.
and so it goes,
peace,
rono
Luhansk governor says local ceasefire agreed.
The governor of the Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine says an agreement has been reached on a local ceasefire in order to allow for the evacuation of civilians trapped by fighting.
Serhiy Haidai said on Telegram that the ceasefire would come into force at 9am local time (07:00 GMT).