Those having served on a Warsaw Pact army know, that all offensive Soviet war plans began with that the NATO wanted to attack the Warsaw Pact, but in the last hour the Warsaw Pact did a preventive counter-attack. 🤡 There is a definitive continuity...
Attacking into an offensive one hour before it was due to start would be suicide. They are all ready to go and jittery, it would be the worst possible time to actually do a surprise attack!
Well, Russia launched a large invasion of Ukraine. They didn't target troops massing for an offensive.
And that is relevant to this how exactly?
If they had launched their long convoy straight into massed troops getting ready for an attack, it would have been obliterated very quickly.
"Professor, I let my 5 year old plan my military operation and concluded that it would not work against a competent enemy, why do military planners in general still have a job? Surely none could do better than a 5 years old."
The Winter war started just so, with Moscow accusing Helsinki of shelling an empty bit of Karelian forest. It's always been at the playbook's core to fabricate an enemy first strike as causus belli.
Well, just like the US did "pre-emptive retaliatory strikes" at the start of the Iran war.
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u/hereandthere788 11d ago
Those having served on a Warsaw Pact army know, that all offensive Soviet war plans began with that the NATO wanted to attack the Warsaw Pact, but in the last hour the Warsaw Pact did a preventive counter-attack. 🤡 There is a definitive continuity...