How Russia's plan for an easy victory in Ukraine fell apart

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Surprise resort trips and empty hotel rooms reveal how Russia's plan for an easy victory in Ukraine fell apart

When the Russian military launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, almost everyone thought the smaller country was doomed.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his advisers expected a lighting campaign lasting between three days and two weeks. Even US intelligence assessments foresaw a quick Russian victory.

Fourteen months later, and after heavy casualties, Ukraine still stands, having imposed grievous losses on Russia and forcing it to retreat from much of the territory it seized early in the war.

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A recent report by the Royal United Services Institute, a British think tank, shows how Russia set out to undermine Ukraine and set up an easy victory — and how Moscow struggled to adapt when that plan fell apart.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/surprise-resort-trips-and-empty-hotel-rooms-reveal-how-russia-s-plan-for-an-easy-victory-in-ukraine-fell-apart/ar-AA1ayXGr

[keithbvadu2]

1. And Dubya was going to conquer Iraq in a week... a cakewalk.

And the oil would pay for the war.

[Grokenstein]

2. Would-be world-rulers surround themselves with bobbleheaded bootlicks

No one wants to step up and tell them their scheme cannot succeed, because they know that will get them ruined or killed; instead the wormtongues assure their master of "easy victory" and that their forces "will be greeted as liberators." And that should get them AND their masters ruined or killed, but sadly it rarely does.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Some of the same Russian covert operations used to undermine the US.