Putin is largely ignoring the expertise of his military advisors, US analysts said in a report. Instead, he is making most of the key decisions on his own, they said. The experts at the RAND Corporation said Putin has proved more cautious than many expected. Russian President Vladimir Putin is making key decisions about the Ukraine war largely on his own, without input from his generals, analysts said in a report published last week.
But while doing so, Putin has proven to be more cautious than expected, said the report from the US-based RAND Corporation.
“Putin [is] making key decisions largely on his own without substantial influence from the Russian General Staff,” the analysts said in the report.
RAND said that was simply because Putin does not trust those around him — and so makes “little use of economic or military expertise” at his disposal.
This worked famously well for Hitler in WWII. Maybe we can just fast forward to the part where he suicides in a bunker?
Having the guy who basically ran messages between trenches in the Great War calling all the shots can’t possibly fail, so I’m assuming you’re speaking ironically and Germany won, right?
I mean, of course he is speaking ironically. Hitler famously bypassed his generals more sound ideas on how to proceed with the Soviet Union and instead for vital strategic locations he went for the prestige objects.
I suppose in retrospective we gotta be glad that he did. Germany still wouldn’t have won, but it might have taken longer and every day more of that war was more dead and maimed on both sides.
@TinyPizza is not speaking ironically.
They are speaking sarcastically.
And I am speaking pedantically. No, typing pedantically.
Never go full Hitler…
I mean, never go part Hitler either. But definitely don’t go full Hitler.
He must have been doing this the whole time right? Otherwise how could they be doing so poorly?
I’ve been assuming Putin’s been calling the shots all by himself in terms of military movements this entire time.
Honestly, I think corruption is at fault for the initial mess and Putin trusting too much of what the numbers say. Russia had a decent military budget, they should’ve done better than they did. What I think happened was that the budget dwindled as people on all levels were skimming away little bits for their own pockets until only fragments arrived where the money was supposed to go. Everyone cleaning up their numbers bottom up and thus Russia had a solid military on their papers while things were falling apart at the bottom.
Never interfere with the enemy while he is in the process of making a mistake.
- Sun Zu
Sounds like his generals should facilitate a regime change, and put someone competent in charge.
You need competent generals for that. Those were removed by Putin.
Also, “removed” by Ukraine 🤣🤣🤣
They are all yes men without a spine selected by pooptin exactly for those qualities
Doesn’t this play into the hands of Ukraine? An non-expert making decisions instead of experts seems like recipe for a grand fuck up.
Napoleon would like a word.
Oh, the dude who spent his entire career in the army and fought multiple wars before becoming a commander/general is equal to Putin who never fought a war?
Considering he was a paper-pusher flunky with negligible tactical military experience, this is great news for Ukraine.
