President Vladimir Putin on Friday accused NATO member Poland of having territorial ambitions in the former Soviet Union, and said any aggression against Russia's neighbour and close ally Belarus would be considered an attack on Russia.
  • SomeDude@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I have a suspicion of what is going on in Putin’s head:

    • 2021/early 2022, he thought his military was amazing and could take Ukraine in 3 days
    • that went horribly wrong, russian tanks and other weapons exploded all over
    • only two options: western weapons are incredibly better than russian weapons, or russian generals are incompetent
    • fire generals left and right over 2022, it doesn’t really get any better
    • winter break
    • 2023, the long dreaded Ukrainian counter offensive is coming
    • West has given Ukraine only a handful of weapons, not enough for a sweeping, brutal offensive
    • Ukrainian offensive stalls
    • Putin’s advisors show him the same destroyed Bradley and Leopard 2 tanks all over, from different angles
    • “Holy shitballs russian weapons aren’t inferior to western weapons, it really was just stupid generals, we really destroyed hundreds of NATO tanks”
    • fuck yeah, with that sorted out I can take on the baltics and Poland