Putin will have to blame himself for future Russian losses

 Streiff:

...  Now we’re hearing of another failed political leader donning the hat of a tactician and running his own war; that would be Russian President Vladimir Putin.

President Putin is making low-level tactical decisions that would normally be decided by an officer in charge of as few as 700 Russian troops, western military sources say.

A military source said that Putin and General Valery Gerasimov, chief of the general staff, were dictating basic movements of their forces in Ukraine.

“We think Putin and Gerasimov are involved in tactical decision-making at a level we would normally expect to be taken by a colonel or a brigadier”, the source said.

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Another story came out last week that definitely has the ring of truth, Russian generals turning on each other to avoid Putin’s purge, says Ben Wallace. The Ben Wallace in the headline is the British Defence Secretary, so, as sources go, that is pretty solid.

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With Putin ordering his generals into frontline positions to lead troops and many of them being killed in the process, it is clearly Putin's war and he is calling all the losing moves.  But I double we will see Putin on the frontlines yelling "Charge."