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The Russians have long understood that their topography and climate are key to their defence, and they have used it, quite deliberately, to great advantage.
Napoleon, unlike Hitler, got all the way to Moscow, but the nation’s leadership evacuated the city and burned it down, then waited for the French to get too cold and hungry to stay any longer. In the event Napoleon waited too long for a Russian delegation to come and face him. By the time he and his army tried to retreat, they were hungry, demoralised and the weather was turning against them.
Absolutely! Russia has very narrow windows of vulnerability due to weather. They even have a word for for the 'off seasons' of Spring and Autumn, where the mud makes mechanised travel very difficult off paved roads- Rasputitsa. Russian armament is often designed with this in mind. Their main battle tank, the T90 is some 15 tonnes lighter than its' US equivalent, the M1 for example.
Interestingly, this winter has been very mild in Ukraine which has forced the Russian advance to use roads rather than steaming across frozen ground. This has very much worked to the advantage of the Ukrainians.
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The Westminster Russia Forum, initially the Conservative Friends of Russia, was founded in 2012 by Richard Royal, a communication specialist for Ladbrokes. Its organisers and members often appeared on Russia Today, the Russian state-owned news channel.
The group then, and now, calls itself a think tank, but no published research exists. They are more akin to a lobby group; however, there is no requirement to register their activities or interests, no scrutiny or checks, so we are left guessing as to the scope of the work they did.
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Putin appears to be truly unhappy with the FSB in Ukraine: he attacked the 5 Service SOiMS (FSB's foreign Intelligence branch). Sergei Beseda, head of the Service, and his deputy Bolukh, head of the DOI, placed under house arrest, according to my sources inside.
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BREAKING: Russia thought to be orchestrating false flag attack to draw Belarus into conflict with Ukraine. Russia has "inflicted airstrikes" on Belarus in a possible FALSE FLAG operation blamed on Ukraine to draw Putin's ally into the war: Ukrainian internal affairs ministry.
Russian assault aircraft bombed Ukrainian targets before launching airstrikes in Belarus, per stmt. - Jack Detsch, Foreign Policy.
Russia is trying everything possible to drag Belarus into its 16-day war against Ukraine, said Ukraine's Deputy Interior Minister Yevheniy Yenin in a televised interview today.
"We also understand that the Belarusian government has been doing everything possible to avoid joining this war," Mr Yenin added.
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BREAKING: U.S President Joe Biden has warned Russia, it will pay a 'severe price' if it uses chemical weapons in Ukraine.
Biden refused to divulge specific information about the intelligence he had received, following a question from a White House reporter. - Kyiv Independent
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