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Judging by that press conference on Sky News with Putin and his council, he’s been. Shocked by the international reaction and alll isn’t going his way
Looking nervous and trying to justify his actions. He seems very scared about being removed from SWIFT
I agree / this could turn into an embarrassment for Putin. He needs to
Get it done quickly or if it drags out it will turn into another Afghanistan. The Ukrainians will not lay down and welcome the Russians. They will fight to the end
I cant decide if this will be over quickly or not, I don't believe the Ukrainian people will accept this. They all do military service and are very patriotic. But then the war games prediction is a quick win:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/02/23/war-games-tell-us-possible-russian-invasion-ukraine/
What war games tell us about a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine
Combat simulations have eerily predicted the course of military history – and recent results can make for chilling reading
By
Tim Wigmore
23 February 2022 • 4:03pm
War games are likely to have influenced Russia’s actions in the Ukraine, and Vladimir Putin’s decision to send the army over into Donetsk and Luhansk to “maintain peace
Sixty hours. That was all it took for Russian forces to reach the foreign capitals: Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius, in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania respectively.
In 2014/15, the Rand Corporation, a US think tank largely funded by the government, brought together groups of leading military personnel, including figures from the US army, air force, navy and Nato naval command. They met in Washington DC, London, Ramstein Air Base in Germany and at Nato headquarters in Brussels to conduct a series of war games.
The players were placed in one of two teams, of five to 15 members – the Red team, Russian forces charged with occupying the Baltics, and the Blue team, comprising Baltic countries, US forces and Nato forces trying to stop them. In war games like these, players move their military pieces around a board, rolling dice to determine what happens in moments of uncertainty. Think of Risk, only far more sophisticated, with open-ended rules – the limits of what a player can do are set by umpires, not a rulebook – and played by some of the greatest military minds in games that can last up to a week.