There's a very dark theory for why the Russian military appears to be faring so badly: Putin is deliberately withholding his full military power for the subsequent war against NATO. Ukraine is just a training exercise.
They're also being more serious about the Iron Firewall than China has been about the Great Firewall of China(though backbone companies cutting them off probably helped)
Maybe I should wipe my old LiveJournal while I still have the ability to log into it. It's probably going to disappear from the real internet either way.
Former Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky suggests that we have our idea of "oligarchs" backwards. They're not actually Putin's financial backers. They're just his henchmen whom he uses for money laundry. They have no say in anything.
Well they *were* his backers but then he grew beyond their control and now he just elevates toadies with rich contracts/wealth so long as they’re loyal to him personally.
So there's this growing concern that the Russian troops that have seized two nuclear power plants (including Chernobyl) have absolutely no clue how these things work. Oh joy.
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