Hearted Youtube comments on Vladimir Brovkin (@vladimirbrovkin4052) channel.
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To be honest the initial assessments of russian army were at leas partially correct in my opinion. BUT, these same analysts forget that the issues of corruption, nepotism, political appointment, etc. were ALWAYS present in russian army before any war. But the analysts failed to realize that when such a war starts, Russian system and people get gritty and serious, and military is whipped into shape. Under such conditions of military flux, traditional russian strengths determination, of out-of-the-box thinking, creativity, flexibility and pragmatism begin to shine. and so given enough time, russian force becomes the best force of the war. we've seen that time and time again with russian military coming up with solution to every new weapon system or tactics development on the front line.
On the political side, they also misread that Russia is being led by a political dinosaur that's been in power almost since most of western leaders were still skipping classes in college. This man has come to power during 1998 financial disaster while Chechen war and terrorist campaign was ongoing. he's seen Kursk disaster, Beslan, 2008 crisis, Georgian war, sanctions, syrian war, Crimea and more sanctions. short of nuclear war, there's hardly anything he HASN'T seen. That's not a man that backs down due to a military setback.
But on topic of that, yes i think it was seriously possible back in 2022 to deal a major and demoralizing blow to russia. But even then, even so, it wouldn't have achieved the goal. russians would have just persisted.
I think the only way in which russia could have stopped fighting was if the people were convinced that the war is deeply immoral, AND that it also has no value in preserving the russian statehood.
But then again, with likes of Azov parading around Ukr, i dont think this was a problem.
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