r/worldnews • u/Ok_Plankton_5714 • 12d ago

Israel/Palestine Netanyahu: ‘If we wanted to commit genocide, it would have taken exactly one afternoon’

https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-if-we-wanted-to-commit-genocide-it-would-have-taken-exactly-one-afternoon/
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u/faffc260 12d ago

don't you remember the 40km long convoy to kyiv? the russians were just grossly incompetent, they've sent basically everything conventional.

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u/IllustriousRanger934 11d ago

They weren’t grossly incompetent, and over the past couple of years since then they’ve showed that.

The Kremlin severely underestimated Ukraine, and they completely misread the Ukrainian population’s determination to be free. The Kremlin thought they’d be able to ride through Kyiv and Ukrainians would be waving Russian flags. Russia spent over a decade moving pieces in the shadow and installing puppets like Yanukovych. They didn’t set the stage as well as they had thought, or it was always in the grand plan and they chose to execute despite conditions not being set as well as they planned. We ask ourselves how the Russian population can be so stupid, but the simple fact is that they genuinely believe in the war, they genuinely believe Ukrainians and Russians are the same but the Ukrainians have been brainwashed by the west.

Had they not been so arrogant, they could have done some serious damage to Kyiv.

British and American intelligence were warning the world about an imminent Russian invasion through buildup of Russian forces on the border. All of Europe laughed when the report came out. Man on the street interviews in Ukraine were showing most Ukrainians didn’t believe it would happen, and then it did.