Russia-Ukraine Invasion

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    "Still another problem bedeviling Moscow is its arsenal, which also seems to have been largely the product of Potemkin imagination, according to Karl. “Putin was told he had [something like] 10,000 missiles. In fact, he had 1,000. It’s peculiar that he didn’t remember how he was lying to his own bosses as a young KGB officer. Such lying is common in the culture.”"

    https://newlinesmag.com/argument…

    • "“It looks like two weeks into the war, it finally dawned on Putin that he was completely misled,” Soldatov and Borogan wrote."
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    • “The department, fearful of his responses, seems to have told Putin what he wanted to hear.” - exactly what many of us expected and suggested it happened :))
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