I admit I haven't yet listened to that audio file, but might find time to; but I am posting to warn that one shouldn't be too quick to discount the resolve of the Russian people. Throughout the ages they have put up with hardships and managed to prevail over bad stuff.
The thing is, the same is true of the folks of the Ukraine.
BUT I also will admit that opening drive to the capital from north of Kyiv was one really miscalculated tactical move and I can't figure how their general staff didn't see they were making such a blunder.
Just in case anyone is interested:
en.wikipedia.org
Anyway, don't be too quick to sell them Russian folks down the river.
Oh yes, I am not at all surprised our military planners and many more around the planet have been studying that conflict. There are specialists who have only that job - - - study, study, study.
As for the possibility of clandestine operations from within our own DoD; no surprise there, either.
What I really want to see is that DPRK Kim fella to send more and more combat troops to that AO and we can study them in action and that will be very helpful. And that keeps them busy as the Kim fella gets older and older and then won't have too much time to get back to bothering us in the ROK and here in Japan. Deplete his troop strength and any supplies that he sends with them.
I think I posted around here yesterday, or this morning (JST) that there was a new NHK article about the DPRK sending more troopers over there to the west to that combat AO. Definitely good news for us in this part of Asia. Thank you, President Putin. Have fun learning hangul. They don't even use hanmun in the DPRK. "Hanmun" is the Korean word for Chinese characters.
