When I started my blog back in 2013, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was the Prime Minister of Turkey and was suppressing his people. Bashar al-Assad was using chemical weapons on his population in Syria and now we are waiting to see if Putin will use chemical weapons in Ukraine. 

It is 2022 and now the world is concerned the Russian invasion of Ukraine will escalate into a broader European war. Well, Russian forces are getting flogged by the Ukrainian military, whilst we are likely to see the superior manpower of the Russian military ultimately prevail, they are being embarrassed in the process 

Russian soldiers are raping women, looting homes and businesses, murdering elderly people in their homes, shooting people in the street and sidewalk. Naturally they are lousy soldiers, they are pathetic, they are getting smashed on the battlefield, the Ukraine military are demoralising the Russian military.

The Russian army is poorly trained, poorly equipped, pathetically led and logistically incapable. With European and US weapons flooding in, the Ukraine military is getting supplied and engaging in guerilla warfare. This was always expected to become a fight moving from street to street in urban areas full of ambush and hit and run skirmishes.   

From what I can work out, Russian soldiers are pretty adept at shooting civilians. They are not so good at fighting Ukrainian soldiers, there they get caught in ambush after ambush and are incinerated in their vehicles. Their infantry is ineffective, they are competent at shooting unarmed civilians at point blank range or using snipers to shoot civilians on the street. 

In combat, the Russian soldiers are not effective – they are just an occupying force that relies on overwhelming numbers to meet their objectives. In a military fight against a highly motivated are well armed Ukrainian military, they are inadequate in all facets of operations including tactics, ability, agility and application. The Russian military is being humiliated in front of the world, instead, as an occupying force, they are resorting to war crimes.