SavannahMann
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The operation needs an excellent intel support. Ukrainian are too dumb and too corrupt, Putin would have been knew about the terror plans within few hours
Bah. It didn’t require some group at Langley to plan this. It was a simple operation. And nothing we have seen shows that Putin or anyone in his admin is anything approaching competent.
Let’s start with the obvious. It has been said for thirty years that modern armies float on a sea of diesel fuel. Logistics are the life blood of an army. Every military manual or textbook covers this with historical examples.
So understanding that an attack on a logistical choke point would be a good move is nothing. It doesn’t take a military genius to come up with that. It takes nothing more than a barely competent command staff.
Google Earth has all sorts of photographs from the air. It isn’t like you need a fleet of surveillance aircraft anymore. You just need access to the World Wide Web.
You don’t need a small army of spies with miniature cameras anymore. Most things are on social media. Instagram probably has thousands of pictures of the bridge before the bombing.
In fact there was a video on YouTube months ago that explains why and how Ukraine was looking at attacking the bridge. Five months ago.
You don’t need to be Alexander to figure out the importance of a bridge. Hell Gomer Pyle would know that.
Now to the idea that Putin and his minions are competent. That belief is obviously baseless. I am talking painfully obvious.
The invasion of Ukraine was obviously based upon flawed assumptions. The most obvious flawed assumption was that the Ukrainian people and military would just give up when the mighty Russian Army showed up.
Frankly. After months of watching this unfold. I’m certain of one thing. The Russians are as bad as they ever were. And that is personally disturbing. After the Wall Fell and the Soviets collapsed. Russian Soldiers came to Fort Bragg to see how the 82nd Airborne did it.
I met a couple of the Russians. We were explaining how the Engineers support the Infantry.
The Russian Officers couldn’t believe that we let the Enlisted see maps. They were astonished that the troops could read maps and do land navigation. The Russian Captain accused us of putting officers in enlisted uniforms to trick him.
What we considered basic soldier skills was advanced and classified information by their standards.