Quote (Black XistenZ @ Mar 20 2024 04:06am)
The 50k were supposed to establish the stranglehold on the city, with more and more troops being brought in over time. Particularly since Russia expected to take the airport and subsequently be able to airlift reinforcements at will.
The thing about Russia massing two or three times as many troops before invading is that it would have tipped off what Russia was up to, with no more room for denial or rationalizations. Keep in mind that a lot of Western politicians, pundits and armchair experts (yours truly included) were in denial until the moment Russian tanks crossed the border into Ukraine. A lot of people thought that Russia was just saber-rattling or trying to force some (mild) concessions, or that "Russia cannot possibly be foolish enough to actually invade". :unsure:
Allowing Western denial to prevail until the bitter end helped Russia to delay the Western response by months. On the flip side, if Russia had spent addtional weeks amassing half a million troops, their intentions would have been clear, with the risk of last-minute arms supplies being sent to Ukraine. There would even have been a small chance of quick response NATO troops being deployed to Ukraine.
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Brought in from where? What non-existant troops are you talking about? Putin announced partial mobilization towards the end of 2022, these troops would need training at least 6 months..? Also if putin had recruited, trained and expanded his army over the last 5 years before 2022, so what? Afterwards you suggest amassing several hundred thousand "weeks", lol this shit takes at least a year or two. So your saying the plan was gain a foothold (which they did on both sides of kiev), then chill for 12-16 months for additional troops? This is non-sense, terrible analysis.
There was such a critical lack of forces, that the kharkiv front collapsed, what troops are you talking about, are we talking about the same war?
If your gonna make up false assumptions about me, then i should make some about you as well? Not that it matters
This post was edited by ownyaah on Mar 20 2024 01:08am