And that's not just the mobilization and deployment of forces, and digging trenches (and tunnels!) and placing mines, and dispersing of ammunition storages, and evacuating civilians. It's also just arming themselves properly.
I find it hard to believe that they would be that stupid. At least Stalin had a legitimate reason for his nonsense, trying not to provoke the Germans into invading before 1942. I'm sure you know that Stalin knew full well that the Germans would invade, he just did not expect it to land in 1941.
With more of these "American weapons" of theirs, the so sadly "all not happy" Russians would be even more unhappy, also dead.
Well yeah. Murdering Russians is the point of those American weapons. I also saw Russian accounts claiming that they found munitions in civilian areas in Donetsk supplied by NATO. So not just soldiers. Anything the Kiev regime does is a-OK with the West.
For the record, it's the West and its state religion of hypocrisy that's the problem. The Ukrainians are not acting any more vilely than the Russians, as far as anyone can demonstrate.
Poland in 1939 at least had a somewhat-successful secret mobilization prior to the invasion (https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=160494). Ukraine did fuck all, like the USSR in 1941 despite obvious German movements and all the warnings.
It is puzzling. Apart from the facile "Zelensky is a clown" explanations, the only semi-decent explanation that I have seen is that the Russian forces were so poorly arrayed, prepared and equipped for an invasion that the Ukrainians did not take seriously that they would be used for an invasion. I don't know if reports that it was a last-minute decision by VVP are accurate, but if so, that would be consistent with this.
And frankly, 170,000 soldiers for a full-scale invasion of a heavily militarized, heavily fortified country with 800,000 men who had military experience always sounded pretty stupid to me.
And that's not just the mobilization and deployment of forces, and digging trenches (and tunnels!) and placing mines, and dispersing of ammunition storages, and evacuating civilians. It's also just arming themselves properly.
I find it hard to believe that they would be that stupid. At least Stalin had a legitimate reason for his nonsense, trying not to provoke the Germans into invading before 1942. I'm sure you know that Stalin knew full well that the Germans would invade, he just did not expect it to land in 1941.
With more of these "American weapons" of theirs, the so sadly "all not happy" Russians would be even more unhappy, also dead.
Well yeah. Murdering Russians is the point of those American weapons. I also saw Russian accounts claiming that they found munitions in civilian areas in Donetsk supplied by NATO. So not just soldiers. Anything the Kiev regime does is a-OK with the West.
For the record, it's the West and its state religion of hypocrisy that's the problem. The Ukrainians are not acting any more vilely than the Russians, as far as anyone can demonstrate.
Poland in 1939 at least had a somewhat-successful secret mobilization prior to the invasion (https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=160494). Ukraine did fuck all, like the USSR in 1941 despite obvious German movements and all the warnings.
It is puzzling. Apart from the facile "Zelensky is a clown" explanations, the only semi-decent explanation that I have seen is that the Russian forces were so poorly arrayed, prepared and equipped for an invasion that the Ukrainians did not take seriously that they would be used for an invasion.
And frankly, 170,000 soldiers for a full-scale invasion of a heavily militarized, heavily fortified country with 800,000 men who had military experience always sounded pretty stupid to me.