A heavy-handed mobilisation campaign is unable to fill gaps in the front lines
  • commanderEnglish
    3·
    5 days ago

    I wonder how they thought this would go years ago.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
      4·
      5 days ago

      I think the initial expectation was that Russian economy would just collapse in a few months as a result of maximum sanctions from the west. Then they’d get to do regime change in Russia and break it up the way they did with USSR in the 90s. The whole war was premised on a flawed understanding of material reality. The decision makers in the west convinced themselves that GDP measures they’ve come up with accurately represent the strength of an economy, now we see just how divorced from reality these measures actually are.