After the battle of Stalingrad ended in February of 1943, with a surrender of the German Army at that front, there is a period of three to five months where the German generals have a new reality to confront....the war is lost.
By November of 1943, around Berlin, if you quizzed any of the generals, it was a dismal view of what was coming.
In recent days with the Russian retreat in the Ukraine, I think the Russian general staff back in Moscow are looking at the map, their remaining assets and viewing things in a different manner.
Maybe Putin's vision was some victory with occupation of Ukraine as a 'reward' (like the 2014 event with the Crimea). At this point, the lost assets and manpower....along with dismal military demonstrations of power....probably give a bad feeling to the generals. Rebuilding? It could take twenty years.
I won't say there's lost confidence in Putin, but there's a lot of 1943 history weighing on the mind of the Russian generals at this point.
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