“The fact that the Russians entered Mariupol, Itzyum and Severodonetsk never meant, for the leaders of Kiev, that they conquered Ukraine but, on the contrary, precisely these sacrifices were worth the safety of the army and having dealt massive damage to the enemy. Thus, Napoleon, who arrived in Moscow with a sixth of the men with whom he had proudly entered Russian territory, makes the same with Putin who, lastly, in Severodonetsk sends battalions with a tenth of the force to attack and who after the capture of Lysychansk was forced to stop the ground offensive due to the extreme wear and tear of vehicles and men ”. Geopolitics analyst David Rossi, taking stock of the situation on the past five months of war with Adnkronos, compares the Napoleonic campaign in Russia to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, underlining “how much Kiev has made its own teaching of General Kutuzov, who, in the aftermath of the bloody battle of Borodino, wrote to Tsar Alexander I that saving the army and being able to regain the initiative was more important than still desperately resisting the Grande Armée: after all, the fact that Napoleon entered Moscow did not mean that he had conquered Russia ”.
“For the Russians there remains the question of ‘strength’ – explains Rossi – that every Russian expects to be flaunted by their country. Here, then, that, no longer able to hide the difficulties encountered in what the Kremlin requires to call a ‘special military operation’, the Russians are induced by the regime’s media to think that, after all, they are fighting with NATO, not with the ‘Ukraine: It is not possible for the much-hated Slavic neighbors to manage the Himars, howitzers and other weapons supplied by the Alliance with such success. There must be Americans and British on the other side! Indeed, until less than a month ago, the war saw two armed forces confronting each other with almost identical military cultures, training and weapons. Then, after the Russians withdrew from Kiev and a territory as large as the whole of Northern Italy and launched the so-called ‘great offensive’, the Westerners, led by the US and Great Britain, began to invest heavily for to make the Ukrainians make a huge leap in quality, starting to change not only weapons but the military culture of Kiev itself. London has even taken charge – and the initiative is still ongoing – to train 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers to fight with Western tactics, techniques and means ”.
“The situation today – continues the analyst – is that Russia, which occupies a fifth of Ukraine with enormous effort, including Crimea and Donbass, is affected by sanctions and international isolation in a way that is even difficult for us to believe: the leaders and the media of the regime report every day news of factories shut down due to the lack of components, of entire industries unable to produce because supplies no longer arrive and of voluntarily ‘aged’ productions, such as cars built without Abs and even without seat belts. safety, since producing something is better than doing nothing. It is not surprising to read that in Russia, in five months, at least 95% of mechanical and electronic production has disappeared. And the very strong T-14 tanks? Stops due to difficulties in the production process. The drones? They only manage to import, when you find someone more isolated than you (like Iran) selling them to you. Deposits full of endless tanks and ammunition? By now the Russians are launching sixty-year-old missiles or even anti-ship and anti-aircraft rockets for ground targets, often civilians. To see missiles falling a few meters from the launch pads, the Russian generals must be shivering. Especially if they imagine such inconveniences in the unfortunate and very remote hypothesis of the launch of a hypersonic Sarmat II missile, capable of annihilating an area as large as Texas and which, before reaching any objective, must first cross thousands of kilometers of Russian territory “.
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