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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Meh.....they sent in a bunch of teenagers and early 20s somethings (kids) conscripts with crappy supplies and weapons to serves as fresh meat to be turned into ground beef.  They were used to soften up the Ukraine.  Russia's advanced weaponry and elite divisions till haven't really been deployed yet.  People shouldn't get confident at all that Russia has been 'struggling'.  They are just getting warmed up, so I wouldn't extract a whole lot from the first week of combat. [/quote]
That's not how military strategy works. Competent generals don't send units in with the intent to fail. That leads to pointless losses and hurts morale. The most likely scenario is that the Russians just don't have the experience to competently pull off an invasion of this magnitude. Maybe they're learning from their mistakes. [/quote]

This.  there is no evidence that these were not main line units.  There may be no elite units at all.  The estimates are that Russia is using about 75 fighter jets for the whole country.  Why?  They should have hundreds.  It could be that they cannot field 500 fighter jets to make them work all at the same time.  The tanks are their main battle tanks.  The Javelin anti tank weapons work really well.  The Russians do not have anti tank weapon that is that effective on the US main battle tank.  Russia will win.  There is more to come.  But this appears to be  an army that would struggle against a half way decent power like France or the UK.

Earlier PP mentioned that 40 mile convoy.  A 40 mile convoy makes no military sense so it shows their leadership and planning are way off.  If we were fighting every man and woman in that 40 mile convoy would have been dead in an hour.[/quote]

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