Russia-Ukraine Invasion

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    The former US military commander and CIA chief, David Petraeus, has been talking to CNN about how Ukrainians are taking out Russian generals. Since this report was broadcast, Ukraine claims to have killed six Russian general to date.

    Petraeus said:

    It’s very, very, very, very uncommon [for generals to be killed]. This is in the first three weeks. And these are quite senior generals. The bottom line is that their command-and-control has broken down. Their communications have been jammed by the Ukrainians. Their secure comms didn’t work. They had to go to single channel. That’s jammable. And that’s exactly what the Ukrainians have been doing to that. They use cellphones. The Ukrainians blocked the prefix for Russia so that didn’t work. Then they took down 3G. They’re literally stealing cell phones from Ukrainian civilians to communicate among each other.

    So, what happens? The column gets stopped. An impatient general is sitting back there in his armoured or whatever vehicle. He goes forward to find out what’s going on because there’s no initiative. Again, there’s no noncommissioned officer corps. There’s no sense of initiative at junior levels. They wait to be told what to do. Gets up there. And the Ukrainians have very, very good snipers, and they have just been picking them off left and right. And at least four of these five are absolutely confirmed. And I think the fifth, we will hear today.

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    • they could just get vaxxd and uprgade to 5gneverscared
    • @neverscared lol I was sitting on this line for a while, funny that someone else thought about it too :))
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    • This sounds fishy. I find it hard to believe there are Russian generals actually on the ground in the Ukraine.MondoMorphic
    • with very bad communications and very low morale, the troops really do need commanding? so yeah makes sense they are on the ground (and be taken out)
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    • This is so implausible. Does the rus army not have corporals/sergeants... Surely it’s not just a general and a bunch of peons?monNom
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