Friday, November 11, 2022

One Reason Not to Pay Attention to "Think Tanks"


That they were so horribly wrong is, by now, patently obvious.

6 comments:

  1. The "Ode to Joy" is insufficient to describe this joyous occasion...

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  2. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/11/russia-kherson-retreat-marks-tectonic-shift-in-ukraine-war

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  3. Playing devil advocate...for a moment.

    One of the unknowns was how good Russian weapons were
    and did they have them in quantity and of sufficient
    quality.

    If you believed the Russian hype they did.

    Ukraine was the proof case, yes they had them but
    not enough of them. Of those the quality was random.
    Additionally the production capability was limited.

    At the same time the west taking in that hype were
    in a state of incremental improvement. So the wests
    weapons were up to the task and would based on my
    earlier comment exceed the Russian product.

    So was he right? I think he failed to take in
    the things that made Russia fail. Simple things
    like corruption, economic limits, leadership. It
    was also a message that if the west sat on their
    laurels the tools of war might not be up to
    the task.

    Than again did anyone of us read that?


    Eck!

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  4. That last paragraph is how I've been seeing it, Eck! Bigger 'n his britches.

    EYaw, Murkkkians should probably pay attention ...

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  5. It's still Chapter Nine of The Dictator's Handbook
    Democracies v Autocracies. Training, logistics and kit are features of democracies. Ukraine is using kit from both worlds.

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  6. the think tanks should pay out refunds whenever they're wrong.

    All our prayers to Ukraine and Ukrainians recovering from the painful destruction that Putin and Russia inflicted on them.

    The rest of the world needs to be screaming in Putin's face about the thousands of kidnapped Ukrainians who should return to their homes.

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