“[The mud] has literally been a problem for 300 years.”
Mud on the Tires
If it wasn’t so bloody and violent, it’d be funny. Russian President Vladimir Putin seemed to think he could overcome 300 years of military history in which various conquering armies floundered and drowned in Ukrainian mud during early spring, but it turns out you can’t beat nature.
According to a new report in CNBC published this week, Russia failed to take into consideration the time of year when it invaded Ukraine. The army began their invasion in late February, the same time of year locally as “muddy road season,” or “Rasputitsa.” It happens twice a year — spring and fall — and it makes unpaved roads impossible because they turn into thick, deep mud even tanks can’t plow through.
According to the news outlet, Russia analysts and military experts almost can’t believe it’s gone so badly for Putin, especially considering the expectation that Russia would reach a speedy victory over the smaller nation.
History Repeats
Part of the reason Putin should’ve known better than to invade Ukraine when he did is the fact that several war mongers before him fell to the exact same obstacle. Napoleon Bonaparte couldn’t do it in 1812, and Hitler couldn’t do it in 1941.
“It raises real questions for me … the Russians have been doing these [military] drills and practicing this foreign invasion for almost a decade now and they still didn’t think, or didn’t have enough coordination, to put the right units in the right places, and to move in the right way,” Maximilian Hess, Foreign Policy Research Institute fellow, told CNBC. “[The mud] has literally been known to be a problem for 300 years.”
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Who knows why Putin thought his assault would go differently? But anything that lessens civilian casualties at least has a bright side.
This is part of the reason the 2 week military operation is now entering it’s third month. That and the pathetic excuse for an army, who are more interested in murdering civilians than fighting the Ukrainian army.
Kill them all. No mercy.
I could simply laugh my ass off when I think about the multitudinous mistakes that mafia land committed in their criminal war.
They made their biggest mistake by invading in February. Putler has destroyed the reputation of the Russian army and weapons almost single-handedly. I have no doubt terrorist states will buy Russian junk, but I suspect many countries will look elsewhere.
That’s true. The military of mafia land has lost its reputation around the globe.
It would be funny if it didn’t involve the death, murder, torture, eape these scum bags have committed.
Field Marshall Mud con not be ignored.
Napoleon called mud the “fourth demension of war.”
yo can still do operations in the mud but you have to do it right. with light infantry screening the main collums to provide recon, close corrdination with close air support (CAS). and timely, flexable indirect fires.
None of which Russia has demonstrated so far.