AntonToo
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Your assessment of the Russian military's competence is delusional, at best. The Russian-speaking coalition controlled about 8% of Ukrainian real estate last February; they control 20% today:
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"After more than six months of war, it can be said that the Russian army is effective and efficient, and that the quality of its command & control far exceeds what we see in the West.
"But our perception is influenced by a reporting that is focused on the Ukrainian side, and by distortions of reality.
"Firstly, there is the reality on the ground.
"It should be remembered that what the media call 'Russians' is in fact a Russian-speaking coalition, composed of professional Russian fighters and soldiers of the popular militias of Donbass.
"The operations in the Donbass are mainly carried out by these militias, who fight on 'their' terrain, in towns and villages they know and where they have friends and family.
"They are therefore advancing cautiously for themselves, but also to avoid civilian casualties.
"Thus, despite the claims of western propaganda, the coalition enjoys a very good popular support in the areas it occupies."
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Wow.
You post this after Russian army embarased itself internationally and got it's back broken trying to take Kiev?
Army that lost ~80,000 for incremental gains against an inferior opposition in what has now stretched into a long term conflict because they are unable to achieve any of their goals?
You are a total tool if you believe that.