Grandpa's Spells wrote: ↑Tue Sep 13, 2022 4:21 pm
Russian winter victories came by being the defender.
Only true superficially. The common themes for both the French and Nazis were long lines of support and lack of proper gear. Mud. Cold.
10,000 years ago, while I was in ROTC we took a break to review gear. One of the guys was former enlisted. We remarked on the height of the transport trucks.
"This is nothing. When I was in Germany they had really big trucks".
"Russia?", someone asked.
"Yeah, Russia".
We all laughed.
The Mud.

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One example of more modern German vehicle....

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Russians have a capacity for suffering. They showed this in the Winter War of 1940 and in Chechnya.
One of Putin's favorite Journalists covered Chechnya. Anna Stepanovna Politovskaya The Russians can bear a lot of suffering... it's why she ended up dead. She embarrassed people too many times.
Her books were fun reading, if you have a map nearby and some time to think it over. I have "A small Corner of Hell" and "The Dirty War".
Russians can bear a lot of pain.
Grandpa's Spells wrote: ↑Tue Sep 13, 2022 4:21 pm
That said, I'm not sure there will be any Russians left in Ukraine by winter.
Depends upon how you define "Ukraine". The pre 2014 borders? Where things are today?
If Putin dropped dead today the goals won't change. NATO cannot be up Russia's ass.
Don't like yourself too much.