Comment by bluGill
2 days ago
Absolutely. Russia is better armed. They have a massive store of Soviet equipment they have been using up, along with their own production (they were long a world class supplier for equipment - there are a lot of Russian equipped armys around the world)
Russians problems are about bad leadership. They have a lot of badly trained troops (their well trained troops do very well, but they are a small minority and running out). They have logistics issues. They have problems with leaders using well trained troops for things they are not trained for. They have problems with nobody willing to tell the full truth to leaders and so leaders can't make the right plans. They have problems with leaders there because they are political good not because they are great military commanders.
Do not fool yourself though. Russia is a very well armed country. They have problems, but lack of arms is not their issue in Ukraine.
Remember Russia is currently buying arms from countries willing to sell. Can't say you convinced me
> They have problems with nobody willing to tell the full truth to leaders and so leaders can't make the right plans
That for sure. This started at least when no one told putting he is terminally insane back in 2021.
Probably he thought that the war would be won in several weeks and would end with a great triumph (based on earlier precedent of occupying Crimea without any resistance). Obviously if he knew it would end like it is, he wouldn't start the war.
> Probably he thought that the war would be won in several weeks and would end with a great triumph
he didn't think it, he said it. that's exactly the idiocy and ego
> Obviously if he knew it would end like it is, he wouldn't start the war.
putting could always end it. but yes, those things keeps him going, ego is more important than his own people and lives on both sides