It's difficult to understand how the Russian army can occupy Ukraine which is the size of Texas. It's next to impossible to do if the population (44m) isn't on your side. One would need to enlist a sizeable number of accomplices within the population.
Certainly, if the permafrost is hard enough, the tanks can move unimpeded, but logistics win wars. The problem with good logistics is that it doesn't come for free, it's expensive.
Anyway, none of this makes sense. I don't see the Russians moving tanks into Ukraine when the temperature is around 40F. That's a muddy quagmire! Also, tanks aren't as effective inside urban places.
Besides, Russians are also dying in droves in their motherland due to the pandemic. There are just too many things that can go backfire on Putin. So I honestly don't get it at all!
It's likely easier for Russians to invade GOP red-states than it would be to invade Ukraine. At least in these states, they have a lot of useful idiots as accomplices.
So maybe that's why there's an evacuation of the women in children in Donetsk? They want to conscript the men in the region to help their invasion. Is the use of untrained conscripts a viable strategy?
Anway... a lot of my confusion is gone thanks to @icraggs who sent me this wonderful piece:
https://twitter.com/icraggs/status/1495019321986363393
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