Why you need to stop criticising Putin’s “Special Military Operation”
Westerners — and especially Americans — have no right to criticise something that they themselves do on a regular basis.
I have many friends in the West who criticise and condemn Putin’s characterisation of the Ukraine conflict as a “Special Military Operation”. They say that this is a poor attempt at propaganda, and that what Russia did in February 2022 was actually a “full-scale invasion”.
This is RIDICULOUS.
Not a “full-scale invasion”
Firstly, let us acknowledge that when Putin launched his SMO, he crossed the border with only 150,000 men. This represented about 20% of the Russian Army at that time.
Hardly a “full-scale” effort.
Moreover, any military expert can tell you that this number of troops would be woefully insufficient to “conquer” a country the size of Ukraine. Indeed, a force of that size would not even be able to maintain comntrol of Kiev!
By way of comparison, it should be noted that when Hitler launched a “full-scale invasion” of Poland (a much smaller country), he did so with 1.5 million men.
