The interesting combination of errors that led to Putin’s folly were significantly influenced by a corrupt bunch of guys who claimed to have an effective spy network in Ukraine.
It reminds me of “Our Man in Havana” with Alec Guinness.
He’s broke and living in Cuba, and the MI6 wants him to establish a spy ring there. He takes the money, but fakes the spying, with comical results.
The Kremlin guys did the same thing in Ukraine; everyone got money but they didn’t know shit about what was really going on, and “spies” were just more Russian thieves.
Putin being a former spy not a military guy thought of the conquest as a spy operation; a general would have had a more realistic approach and used 500,000 invaders, not 130,000 conscripts.
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It reminds me of “Our Man in Havana” with Alec Guinness.
He’s broke and living in Cuba, and the MI6 wants him to establish a spy ring there.
He takes the money, but fakes the spying, with comical results.
The Kremlin guys did the same thing in Ukraine; everyone got money but they didn’t know shit about what was really going on, and “spies” were just more Russian thieves.
Putin being a former spy not a military guy thought of the conquest as a spy operation; a general would have had a more realistic approach and used 500,000 invaders, not 130,000 conscripts.