>> He may well try to go for 'total' victory, but i disagree that they have
>> the means to do so. I'm not sure where the extra trained manpower and equipment
>> is going to come from.
>> Putin purposely keeps the army weak and disorganised, that's not changing overnight.
Victory might not be quite the right word.
Badly trained, motivated and disciplined maybe, but big in numbers. But what I really had in mind was that Russia almost certainly has large stocks of bombs, bombers, artillery, ammunition and missiles both ballistic and cruise. Then there are the really nasty ones, thermobaric bombs and delivery devices, chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.
The probable facts that army is of poor quality and the tanks are about as reliable as Moskvich cars makes it more rather than less likely that the above would have to be used to subdue Ukraine. Or as Putin might explain "Our brave forces had to destroy the country in order to denazify it".
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