I'll reference this story to Riho Terras, who is an Estonian guy (mostly a politician now), but was a military officer for a number of years. He's a fairly educated guy, and member of the EU Parliament. So Terras has these 'connections' from Estonia. Some are retired military....some might have connections back to Russian Oligarchs.
He went to chatting this weekend over what he knows. Value? Well....you don't know.
Five key things:
1. Putin's original plan was a 4-day 'mission complete' invasion. In the military sense, there was not a lot of substance to the plan.
2. Putin is apparently fairly aggravated now.
3. In terms of rockets.....there was a max of 4 days worth in the mix. The Russians haven't used the whole supply up.....fearing it goes past 4 days.
4. Rifles/bullets are the only thing that the Russian Army has in abundance.
5. Because of a lack of funds, resources and weapons....on the Russians part, there is a fear for Putin that if it goes past ten days....it's the Russians who are stuck in a negotiation problem.
Any of this accurate? Well, that's the problem, you just don't know how these sources pan out. It is accurate to say that deploying a massive number of Russian troops into this situation....has a money value, and trying to say you want some minor piece of the Ukraine at the end....if Ukraine refuses to agree, then the war continues. That money-pit just deepens and gets the Russians into a more costly mess.
If Putin did all of this, and the negation part of this doesn't show acquisition of the far eastern section of the country....then what the hell was this all about?
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