It’s like an itch in the back of my brain..

I think that anyone that’s been following the war in Ukraine would be able to admit that things do not seem to have played out the way Russia intended. We saw what appeared to be a “shock and awe” offensive flounder under incompetent logistics. We saw what was widely considered the 2nd-3rd most powerful military in the world at the time, send in tanks and support equipment that went out of production at the end of the Cold War… And as they floundered and lost territory they emptied their prisons and sent conscripts from indigenous rural provinces… and everyone thought it was because the war was unpopular, and that sooner or later the elites would be motivated by the sanctions. Was Russia really just a paper tiger? Have they spent the last 30 years spinning their wheels because of rampant corruption? Were all those supposed advancements in technology really just smoke and mirrors?

Liberals across Europe and the US cried out to send the Ukrainians more supplies and more support. Send the modern tanks and the stockpile of artillery! But what if the real answer wasn’t that the entire Russian military had decayed and rotted from within? What if they were just sending out their B squad… what if they were the ones depleting the NATO stock piles? What if they sent all the least trained/worst people they had to offer just to let us burn off whatever equipment NATO would part with…. Now over the next few years we’ll see their ambitions turn toward Poland or Lithuania. Then all of a sudden they actually DO have all those cutting edge tanks and super solider shit that they advertised…

Maybe by going a decade without reasonable conservative voices in the US we’ve just opened ourselves up to a huge blind spot?

**For context: I consider myself extremely liberal(possibly overly paranoid) and have supported the war in Ukraine since day one. I’m making this post hopping to be overwhelmed with links to credible sources of examples where Russia pulled its best troops and equipment from its western boarder to reinforce the effort in Ukraine. I would also agree that there doesn’t seem to be any intelligence to indicate some kind of stockpile of advance equipment, but again, would appreciate some links that reinforce that position… this is the shit that keeps me up at night lol