Putin has always believed that war with the US is inevitable. He could be just playing around with Ukraine to draw the U.S. out.

Putin is a master manipulator and propagandist; the stories about Russia doing badly could be due to the man himself. It is very hard to believe that with all the preparations and warnings prior to the invasion that he would stuff things up. He could keeping the real action for the U.S.

Just a thought.

Alan,

Nobody "personally abused" you, as your experience should tell you. The 'abuse' was all in the mind of newby with a silly, self-deprecating name and a tender personality.

ttbn,

An interesting theory that Russia is lulling the west into a false sense of security by getting their military to fight like drunken clowns?

Russia has committed about 2/3rds of its active forces to Ukraine and has suffered massive casualties and loss of equipment. I think not.

Seems fester, shadowminister and yuyutsu want to believe stories about the Ukrainian situation according to the the western mainstream media, which in some important respects amounts to an "Empire of Lies" in an "Echo Chamber" where they keep being repeated. Also, probably do not even want to examine news from alternative sources as well and then try to figure out what likely truth is. They effectively just try to dismiss what does not conform to the western narrative as propaganda and accuse those like myself who point out what seems misleading about it as being something like a puppet and stooge of the Russians. Regarding situation in Ukraine, should for a start regularly check eg www.rt.com , a main news sources from the Russian Federation which until recently at least has maintained news bureaus in US and UK. Some of the "powers that be" there have long disliked it because many of their own citizens who have followed it and associated www.sputniknews.com have come to regard them as more honest than their own news sources. Re one alternative US based news source which the "establishment' there strongly dislikes, watch updates www.veteranstoday.com. Its primary aim is to look after interests of US military veterans. Also, exposing inappropriate US military actions which results in many of those serving suffering. Viewpoints on Ukraine are basically from people with background military knowledge. Without me listing other "alternative" news, those who want to "look around" sources could start with links from the above. Anyway, I am one of those to who it is obvious that the Russians and people of Eastern Ukraine who wanted their help are clearly winning the physical war but so far the basically US puppet government in Kyiv has been well ahead regarding propaganda. Wonder how long it will before this all falls apart. Unfortunately seems the US wants war to continue as long as possible to weaken Russia and with lots of publicized civilian casualties to try and blame it for.

I see that after the 7th general was killed the Russians have bravely run away.

SM,

I am not privy to Russia's deployment of its military assets so I can't comment. If Russia's performance is as bad as the military experts in the media say it is, then Russia might very well go for the nuclear option that the same media has hinted at.