Missing meat and plenty of cannons

The retired colonel surprised everyone.

For what mysterious reason does someone tell the truth where everyone lives by lies and lies?

Surely Mijaíl Khodarénok, the military man who acts as a commentator for Russia-1, the first Russian television channel, had authorization

to express himself with such nonchalance about the failures of Putin's Army in Ukraine and the military virtues of the enemy.

The comments of the retired military man about the international isolation of Russia and the poor quality of its Army are of exceptional substance in an ideological and media world such as that of Putinism, in which bragging, self-deception and intimidation have replaced objectivity , coldness and authority that correspond to the qualities required of a good commander in chief.

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On the Russian side there is a lack of people willing to die in combat, that is, cannon fodder, and there are such an abundance of cannons that there are not enough people to handle them.

On the Ukrainian side, on the other hand, the opposite is happening: there are plenty of people willing to die and there is a lack of weapons to continue killing the Russian enemy.

Russia has great difficulty keeping a huge army on the warpath but without morale, and Ukraine, on the other hand, has too many volunteers, including foreigners, who offer to enter combat.

In the current war of attrition, from Moscow it is necessary to look for human beings willing to sacrifice and from kyiv it is necessary to obtain enough cannons from the allies to continue killing.

Putin wants to avoid a general call-up that would require a previous declaration of war, with the reaction that can be expected from the population.

It has private contracting through companies such as Wagner, peculiar

such as Karimov's Chechen militias and, above all, young recruits from the poorest regions, especially Central Asia, who are only obliged to move to the front if they previously sign a contract. .

Even so, it falls short, because the wear is of unheard-of dimensions.

There are estimates that put the ratio of fatalities in the first days at ten Russian soldiers for every one Ukrainian.

Although the

has decreased ostensibly, it is still favorable for Kiev.

Hence, Moscow has extended the offer of a first military contract to those over 40 years of age, in order to fill auxiliary and technical positions and concentrate younger people on combat tasks.

Perhaps inadvertently, retired Colonel Jodarénok has revealed Russia's greatest weakness.

Nothing is as lethal to an army as its commander mistaking wishes for reality.

The information intoxication of the hybrid war, which Putin wages long before the invasion, intoxicates both the enemy and those who use such weapons.

According to the Russian colonel, "sooner or later, reality will hit you so hard that you won't even know what hit you."

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