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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“National power in the modern world rests mainly on economic strength and technological capacity, not military prowess… it turned out that Putin’s not-woke, unemasculated Russia isn’t even very good at waging war.
Why has Russia’s military failed so spectacularly? Because modern wars aren’t won by strutting guys flexing their biceps. They’re won mainly through logistics, technology and intelligence (in both the military and the ordinary senses)”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/opinion/putin-ukraine-toughness.html