Adûnâi
Little Russian in-cel
- Apr 25, 2020
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...Apologies for not responding, I'm having weird Internet outages for the first time in a year.
Strategos has recently been using a metaphor of a boat whose commander is trying to accelerate it and crash it against a rock. He cannot move against China because that would be too obvious a sabotage, and the subordinates would sabotage his sabotage. But if it's against the Ukraine, it looks technically good on the surface - yet all the execution is exactly self-defeating.
When every single decision made by the command is bad, it points towards its trying to lose, not low skills. Strategos brings up the example of Stalin who was indeed a barely competent gangster - and he had both brilliant decisions (evacuate industry to the Urals, immediate total mobilisation) and terrific, borderline sabotage (the Finnish war, the Izyum offensive of May 1942). This is what an honest idiot looks like, Putin is different.
Strategos has recently been using a metaphor of a boat whose commander is trying to accelerate it and crash it against a rock. He cannot move against China because that would be too obvious a sabotage, and the subordinates would sabotage his sabotage. But if it's against the Ukraine, it looks technically good on the surface - yet all the execution is exactly self-defeating.
When every single decision made by the command is bad, it points towards its trying to lose, not insufficient skills.
Strategos doesn't place much attention on the pre-2014 politics - aside from his list of failed Russia armaments which do indeed reach back to the 1990s (and before - such as the Soviet practice of maintaining 3 separate main battle tank designs which he considers sabotage as well).
