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OT: World Politics

There is no worse, only weaker.

Putin has spent 20+ years developing and maintaining his stranglehold on what counts as an apparatus and it's been more or less loyal this whole time (within the boundaries of acceptable Russian double dealing and run of the mill corruption).

The next guy will require at least a decade to create similar conditions and Russia will be deeply, deeply injured while he's running around installing the right people in the right places and making an example of the wrong people.

Also, whoever takes over next will likely have to deal with a similar set of freedom movements as Putin himself had to deal with. There's a handful of regions that would break away if they felt they could.
 
This is the front I was waiting for to open up, it's indefensible imo and the Russians are fucked here. Was temporarily delayed by blowing the dam a few weeks ago.



Fucked. The MOD pillaged experienced troops and the best equipment from this front to beef up the defence of ZAP and the flanks of Bakhmut weeks ago. It will take a while for the Ukies to build forces here and any crossing will be dicey until they create enough of a buffer than russian arty can't reach them but the Russians just don't have enough assets in region to push the Ukrainians back across the river and they don't have enough reserves to deploy either....those are pinned down in Zap & Donetsk.

It's almost like this was the plan the whole time or something. Deploy 20% of the new Nato provided combat strength in the east, force the deployment of Russian reserves to slow the advance and then cross the river with the main push.
 
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