Russian Military Not What It Was Cracked Up To Be Thus its need to rely upon the crudest and least precise weapons of unconscionable massive destruction and gross overkill. Under Putin, the Kremlin's theory on the execution of war could be described as: “We blow things up - We make Putin happy” - all from a safe distance, of course. Terrorize the populations as you’re leveling their homes and cities to the ground. That is how we do it.
Putin is a toy soldier who is so personally insecure that he has never been able to take any advice from his own generals - or from anyone else, for that matter. He is incapable of taking over an area and then enjoying what he has gotten - because there is nothing left for him to enjoy once he has finished his conquest. - Horace
The Russian Military’s Debacle in Ukraine
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-russian-militarys-debacle-in-ukraine
Moscow’s MIA Military Might
https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2022/03/the-bunker-moscows-mia-military-might/