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Russian incompetence in this war quite frankly exceeds the level of Soviet collapse by an order of magnitude. I like to think Trump is being played by Putin, but it sure does seem like they’re on pretty much the same level strategically.
What a perfect example of Soviet-style fascism. Putin needs a lead lobotomy.
"soviet style"
hurr hurr scary gommunism
putin is literally a liberal who was brought to power by the backing of liberal west, he has nothing to do with soviets, dont take name of soviets from your mouth.
I disagree that they're on the same level strategically. This is only bad for Putin if he cares about Russian people. He doesn't, so it's not a failure. This was/is about legacy building. He's a modern emperor fighting an endless war because admitting defeat would look bad. Ironically, it's exactly what led to the last Russian emperor to be removed by the people.
It might even be intentional cultural and ethical cleansing, by disproportionally sending out the non-white non-“Russian” population to the meat grinder..
He does not care about the people, he cares about what those people might do to him. His legacy is now one of the worst leaders, like we are talking about in 50 years having a good chuckle reading about his massive failure that called itself an "empire".
I have been saying for years that Putin’s intelligence is mediocre at best. People kept telling me he had The Big Brain (even those who hate him).
Compared to Trump he's a genius, but that's mostly because Trump could probably be diagnosed with a serious intellectual deficiency if any honest doctor got the chance to examine him.
In terms of real intelligence, Putin's no mastermind, though. Americas problems can't be blamed on Russian manipulation, since any manipulation on their part is inept at best. You got yourself into your current mess all by yourselves.
He embraced ~~neonazism~~ liberalism, which the architect of Liberal Shock Therapy has said repeatedly is a mistake, so maybe he's not unintelligent, but like the rest of the Good Guy Liberals©, is just doing Kabuki theatre until he, too, can get to his bunkers.
The assessment of Putin is quite accurate. He could only do low intensity conflicts and he has a habit of starting something but is never able to finish. Even Georgia is an unfinished business.
He's the J. J. Abrams of world leaders.