Not to mention the evidence of war crimes, the Ukraine war was a colossal military mistake, according to a Russian military expert and veteran of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. And he says it confuses the minds of many like him. It is not that the Russian soldiers did not have good equipment, food or warm clothes, as many said, according to Valery Shiryaev. It is that there were too few of them to do what their president wanted, which Shiryaev said was impossible. The United States and its allies have sent half a million troops to fight the first Gulf War in a context in which you could argue that Saddam Hussein had less support than the current Ukrainian president. , as his country gives him an existential battle. Compare that to the fact that Russia had less than a quarter of that number – just 120,000 lined up to invade Ukraine, something that Syriaev never thought would happen until it happened. WORLD LEADERS REACT TO BUCHA SLAUGHTER, UKRAINE: “GENOCIDE”, “INCREDIBLE”, “TERRIBLE” Shiryaev, a veteran of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, said that this war is unlike any other in this century, with men on both sides who are similar in culture and fight in the same way or at least come from the same experience. The Red Army may have been lost a long time ago, but some legacy must continue in the democracies of the former USSR. This led Shiryaev to consider how the Russians thought of waging this war from the beginning. “It’s a great mystery! explained the military expert. “There was an opinion among military experts that an attack was not logical. Everyone guessed [Russian President Vladimir] “Putin, as a politician, is acting rationally,” he said. “If a politician is overwhelmed by emotions, he can make a mistake.” from the Russian security service known as the FSB to foreign intelligence and military intelligence, he wondered if these generals and spies were too timid to tell Putin the truth and how just the decision to go inside was made. BIDEN CALLS FOR TRAINING CRIMES IN UKRAINE, DENIES “GENOCIDE” IN BUHA He also noted the underestimation of Ukraine’s determination. “I do not understand. We all know the Ukrainians – they are our brothers. We know them as ourselves. They would never surrender, just as the Russians would never surrender if attacked.” He blamed what he essentially called a one-man power structure in Russia for miscalculations. Even under the anti-democratic system that was communism, there were some controls and balances. “After Stalin’s death,” Siriaev continued, “there was a collective leadership in the Communist Party, and when the troops went to Afghanistan, a vote was held in the Communist Party’s Politburo,” he said. Of course, it was not known whether this vote took place at the end of the barrel of a gun. “The Communist Party of China also has a voting process, but in Russia, there is one person who made a mistake. This is the tragedy of Russia’s political structure.” Ukrainian soldiers celebrate at a checkpoint in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kiev, Ukraine, April 3. (AP Photo / Rodrigo Abd) On the issue of nuclear weapons, Shiryaev was not concerned, believing that Russia’s talk of reaching a higher level of readiness was to ensure that NATO boots would not pass through Ukraine. He was similarly convinced that the Russians would not use chemical or biological weapons. He did not believe that the Russians would develop something so toxic so close to their borders, something that could blow them up immediately. CLICK HERE TO RECEIVE THE FOX NEWS APPLICATION He saw an end game in the annual Victory Day of Russia, celebrated on May 9, when Nazi Germany was defeated in World War II. And perhaps, Shiryaev suggested, Putin at that point would simply say that what they have gotten so far is exactly what they have wanted since then – and that will be the turning point. However, he admitted that even the fight for Donbass did not go so well. Listen only to the Russians. “Every day, [Russian Ministry of Defense spokesman Igor] Konashenkov talks about how Ukrainian missiles and Ukrainian shells explode in Donetsk. This means that the troops are where they were and nothing has changed. And a month has already passed. Every day, Konashenkov tells us that Russia is destroying some Ukrainian planes, some S-300 air defense equipment. “But I’m sorry, those targets should have been destroyed in the first week.”
