Let me get this straight

[David Morris]

https://twitter.com/markhertling/status/1572295602590912513?s=46&t=n-oJrfC33V7HdAFx5T7CHQ



Let me get this straight:
1. Russia thought their "special operation" would last 3 days.

2. After 2 months of fighting with Spetsnaz, Airborne & 190+ BTGs, they
achieved NONE of their Strategic, Operational or Tactical Objectives.

3. Based on #2, they decided to shift... their main effort to the Donbas,
where they expended 70+% of their precision munitions hitting civilian
targets, while failing to gain any significant military objectives.

4. Then, Putin announced RUF would secure Luhans'k & Donetsk by 15
September.

5. RU "mobilized"... the LPR & DPR militias, "recruited" prisoners,
"drafted" locals, asked for soldiers from other countries & brought in the
Wagner Group to execute #4.

6. But, after announcing & then delaying the Kherson referendum & under
threat of a UKR offensive in Kherson... RU generals shifted effort from
Donbas to Kherson due to threat of a UKR offensive.

7. After RU shifted forces as described in #6, UA instead conducted a
Kharkiv offensive, gaining the equivalent of the land mass of Rhode Island
& Delaware while capturing a... Brigades worth of Russian tanks & BMPs and
killing hundreds of RU soldiers.

8. Though now "paused" in Kharkiv, UA continues to execute attacks in
Kherson, is slowly gaining ground in Donetsk, while threatening Melitopol.

9. While this is happening, ships from the RU Navy - the "pride of the
Black Sea" - are repositioning from their base in Sevastopol into the Azov
for "security reasons" & RU subs are launching Kalibr missiles at UKR
infrastructure.

And - here's my point - after all of this, Putin's response is to INCREASE
punishment for deserters & execute a partial mobilization of 18-60 year old
men (who didn't get much training the first time around & who will serve as
"cannon meat") and continue this madness?

If this is an accurate summary of the last 210 days, Putin - and his
supporters, generals & Army - will surely go down in history.

But not in a good way.