• NimaMag@lemmy.mlOP
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      2 days ago

      The plan never was ‘3 days’, that was an estimate that came from U.S General Mark Milley.

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        sssh, the 3 day thing has become part of the mythology of this clusterfuck for westerners, they’ll insist it’s real forever

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        Well, Lukashenko also said it, and the editor of RT said. But yes.

        The other evidence they use is the feint that was sent directly at Kiev. They think the feint was a real genuine attempt to capture the capital city, and then from there take all the evidence that it was a feint and spin it into bad planning. So specifically, if you send a feint, and you’re committed to that entire allocation of soldiers being wiped out, you don’t send them in with supplies to last for a long slog - you send them in ultra light on a suicide mission. And that’s essentially what the deployment to Kiev was, a group with an ultralight kit heading straight for Kiev to draw out forces and create confusion in the early days of the war. That feint was destroyed and then when they realized it was feint they spun it hard into “look at these fools who thought they could end this thing in three days” basically as a way of avoiding the obvious conclusion that they wasted time dealing with a trick.

        It would be like if someone sent a feint filled with woodland creatures and animated scarecrows and after you waste strategically valuable time dealing with them you spend the rest of the war saying “this opponent is so dumb they thought they could win with scarecrows” when the reality is that you got tricked and the feint did exactly what it was intended to do.