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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
It all makes perfect sense if you assume that it was exactly that - short-sighted. If you think, "this will all be over in a few days, and the fastest way to victory is to forget about supply chain in favour of blitzkrieg; we'll refuel when we have control of the capital in 24-48 hours, and the troops being thrust into combat won't even have time to second-guess until it's already all over", then it's all completely rational. It's the fundamental strategy itself that was foolish, the overconfidence that they wouldn't meet this type of opposition.
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Yeah, that's what it looks like to me too. Pretty amazing how bang-on US Intelligence was and continues to be. Continually forewarning of Russia's intentions prepared both a reluctant Ukraine and the wider world in spite of widespread skepticism everywhere that Russia would actually perform a full-on invasion. They sounded like Chicken Little, until everything happened exactly that way.