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Vladimir Putin's war on two fronts

2022-11-07T19:13:39.537Z


ANALYSIS – The Russian president is waging a fight that goes beyond the strict framework of military operations.


The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, is currently fighting a war on two fronts.

First there is the military front, against a Ukrainian army whose bravery he had underestimated.

Then there is the ideological front, against a West that he considers to be in the throes of moral decadence.

On the military front, things are not going very well for the master of the Kremlin, who never goes to the front line.

In eight and a half months of war, the Russian army has shown itself to be less maneuverable, less imaginative, less disciplined and less well equipped than its Ukrainian adversary.

It has no allies to provide it with training, intelligence and modern weapons.

We do not see how the Russian occupier could today retain its enclave of Kherson (a city backed by the western bank of the Dnieper river), the only Ukrainian regional capital to have been taken in this “special military operation” started on February 24, 2022 .

Leave a garrison of young Russian soldiers in Kherson...

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Source: lefigaro

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