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  Same body different head?
context: In his previous role, Nikiforov led the offensive on Kyiv. Some would call the promotion controversial as Lieutenant General Nikiforov is alleged to be partly responsible for failed attempts by the Eastern Group of Forces to advance into Kyiv via the toxic Chornobyl area.
  
  solid track record >
  
  Unconventional thinker! Lost fewer men to enemy action than friendly fire / stupidity. I like him already. >
  
  "Okay men, get on these elephants and go up those mountains!" >
  
  I would suggest that Hannible of Carthage is probably not a good comparison. Yes, he took significant losses going over the Alp, but it allowed him to get the drop on the Roman Empire, allowing him to run around Italy unchecked for a significant period of time. When he was challanged, he proved himself to be a very capable commander, and secured multiple victories against the Empire. He was able to do this, in part, by the fact that he walked a load of elephants over a mountain (which is, admittedly, a ridiculous idea).
  Hannible was competent enough that Rome was reluctant to challenge him directly, and he wondered around Italy for over a decade before finally having to redeploy to Africa to challenge the Roman advance there.  He was considered to be the greatest threat to Rome during the second Punic war. Not a bad effort, considering he was going toe to toe with one of the most powerful empires on earth.
  This guy, in stark contrast, is a clown. >
  
  Just to add on how scary he was , Roman’s used to tell their children that if they keep acting up , Hannibal was gonna come get them at night >
  
  Hannibal ad portas (Hannibal is at the gates)! >
  
  Ukrainian Invasion: Under New Management.  Please pardon our renovations! >
  
  This new guy is a Wagner guy.  Prigozhin is in control of the army now. >
  
  He doesn’t even have military experience, does he? He’s just an evil businessman who created the paramilitary company that is Putin’s SS, from what I understand. >
  
  Correct.  Spent some time in prison in the 80s/90s, became a putin crony, "made" his fortune with government food catering contracts and some restaurants that Putin liked to go to.  Then started Wagner for the 2014 war.  He's a mob boss/oligarch trying to groom himself to be Putin's successor, and Wagner is his personal army and current tool to try to make himself look good at the moment. >
  
  He'll have to to somehow dodge being scapegoated for the army's continuous poor performance in Ukraine. I think he's still to early and we'll likely see few more replacements fall before Russia is forced into full retreat. >
  
  He publicly ridicules the army and those in charge of it, hes trying to get Wagner to succeed where the army keeps failing so that he is seen as a guy who can get the job done.  Thats exactly the reason why Bakhmut is hell on earth right now, he keeps demanding they push to take useless ground and they keep getting slaughtered by the Ukrainian army.  The irony is really sad, because it becomes increasingly obvious that Wagner wont succeed, and meanwhile theres so may videos of doomed russians caught in the absolute dumbest situations.  Their lives are being thrown away just to see where Ukrainians are shooting from. >
  
  It's much worse even. Russia throwing all this manpower and materiel into capturing a single city. One that's not even going to give them much of a strategic advantage as it's bordered by two even larger cities just west of it.
  Meanwhile Ukraine is taking back large swaths of land everywhere else and is dealing painful blows to ammo dumps and airfields deep behind enemy lines. >
  
  I think strategically, Ukraine is happy to let them keep throwing themselves at Bakhmut and dying.  The city serves no real purpose for russia except to make Prigozhin look good for taking territory while the rest of the army constantly flounders.  Its awful for the Ukrainians on the ground there, though, even if the Ukrainian troops are rotated out every week or so. Contant shelling, bombing, armor and infantry assaults.  Some civilians are still living there, the fire department is still up, struggling to keep things together. But it serves as an apparent willing graveyard for russians, so they keep fighting.  Extremely demoralizing for russia if the city holds. >
  
  It's actually mostly just shelling. There doesn't to seem to be much actual armor and infantry fighting anymore at this point. A very common complaint in the intercepted telephone calls of Russian soldiers is that they never even see the enemy but its rather a back and forth of occupying abandoned rubble and trenches and then retreat again from shelling and harassing drones.
  But with the increasing reliance on untrained, underequipped conscripts Russia isn't going to be able to do much else. The moment Ukraine changes the pace from the current slow-paced game of exchanging artillery fire and digging trenches back into a more modern style of maneuvers and rapidly shifting situations, Russia's army will collapse in days. The initial losses for Ukrain to shift gears like that will sting though, so that might make them reluctant to do so and they might not have the necessary build-up of materiel ready. >
  
  The last one is moving to a high rised apartment as we speak >
  
  Only the head gets replaced... >
  
  I was sorry to hear about his suicide next Thursday. >
  
  
  I was sorry to hear about his ~~suicide~~ fatal accident next Thursday.
  
  FTFY >
  
  r/yourjokebutworse >
  
  Old russian saying: “the fifth time is the charm”. >
  
  And then it got worse... >
  
  I say he’ll last max 2 months >
  
  He could very well be a puppet for Wagner >
  
  Or a Patsy when they are defeated. >
  
  Nothing says "We're doing a great job!" quite like constant command replacements. >
  
  I remember a Dodgers game where at a critical point, I think the coach was Lasorda, he pulled the pitcher when the count was 2-1. Next pitcher threw a ball and he pulled him after one pitch >
  
  Based on the looting I think if 1,000 washing machines are offered they would leave tomorrow. >
  
  They actually know how to use washing machines to turn potatoes into Vodka. >
  
  Is Russia planning their exit yet? There doesn’t seem to be any plausible plan for them to actually win the war in Ukraine and bombing cities with drones and ballistic missiles doesn’t win a war. Do they have an exit strategy at this point? >
  
  Well, they didn't have much of an entry strategy and they are still quite distracted by that. >
  
  Their invasion used the same methods that the Russians used for Georgia. NATO had studied it and correctly assumed that they’d use the same style and execution for Ukraine and thus Ukraine was armed and prepared accordingly. 
  Now that things are basically lost on the ground the only thing left seems to be a political manoeuvring to save face locally and come to an agreement on sanctions and reparations. 
  Relying on winter and Europe’s appetite for gas also isn’t exactly a winning strategy. Putin must be considering pulling out by now surely. >
  
  They’d have to pull out of Crimea too, and I just don’t think Putin is willing to take that hit to his reputation/ability to survive. >
  
  I doubt Putin survives defeat even if he gets to keep “2014 borders”. >
  
  Anyone remotely able to replace him is thrown out of a window, that's why he won't get replaced easily but that's also why he won't get anyone competent to help him. >
  
  The thing is anyone who replaces him is likely to be exactly the same. >
  
  There is nobody in Russia who is(was) as popular as him, so no. >
  
  He will be forgotten very soon, because now, he is a loser. >
  
  “General we need to talk”
  “Ok???”
  “General, please come over to the balcony….” >
  
  This guy’s expression in his picture looks like he already know he’s fucked. It’ll be a lot more ironic looking when he falls out a window in 2 months. >
  
  People don't exactly retire from those positions. >
  
  They usually retire during their time in those positions, yes. >
  
  They’re struggling with ancient western arms. How much more if the actual NATO gets involved. They need to stop acting like an empire >
  
  Ukraine has 0 western air power, not even outdated F-16.
  0 western tanks, not even 1980s Leopard 2A4.
  18 castrated HIMARS without more powerful way longer range ATCMS ammunition, out of 1100 similar MLRS systems in NATO active service.
  0 western naval power, not even one small old US rocket frigate.
  0 western ballistic missiles or cruise missiles when US alone has around 22,000 (twenty two thousand) Tomahawk missiles similar to Kh-101 Russia is using against Ukrainian civilian targets.
  Ukraine doesn't have even 1% of NATO military capabilities. Plus NATO population is 900 million, Russian is 145 million... >
  
  I love citing these statistics all the time. But you forgot one. They also have literally 0 western professional soldiers (out of millions) >
  
  Still enough to hold whole Russian military, including VDV, Spetsnaz, 1st Guards Tank Army, 5 full other combined arms armies, naval infantry, Black Sea fleet, Russian Air Force, specialized Arctic Brigade, Kuril Island garrison, Finland border garrisons, Caucasus border forces - and when whole Russian professional and contract military has been grinded - civilian Russian population mobilized to the military by Putin's decreed to replace soldiers, mercenaries company, 40,000 Russian criminals from prisons, forcibly recruited DPR and LPR militia etc. Russia truly has pathetic inapt and impotent militarly. The biggest military faux pas in XXI century. >
  
  Putin’s “special operations” is so special that it’s almost Olympic. >
  
  I suppose it’s because the last one did so well, right? >
  
  It's possibly worse / better / idk.  This is one of the Wagner supporters while the old guy was one of Prigozhin's rivals >
  
  Another one bites the dust >
  
  They’d be better off replacing him with a pickle jar. >
  
  Putins table, Its got to be the worst game of musical chairs ever. >
  
  Live from the swearing in ceremony >
  
  They're all as clumsy as they are stupid. >
  
  yea maybe this time they will get lucky,,, lol what a clown show. >
  
  That’s how you know things have been “going as planned” >
  
  Better tell him to stay away from open windows and stairs. Those things are kryptonite for Russian generals. >
  
  Anyone want to take bets to how long until he gets sacked >
  
  Poor bastard. This is probably the job he didn’t want.
  You know he’ll fall out a hospital window after having a heart attack within the next 3-4 months. >
  
  Hey Russia... GO HOME! Get out of Ukraine! >
  
  He's a butcher when he has superior fire power.
  I hope Putin cuts his balls off and feeds them to him before he 'falls down some stairs' >
  
  Ah, the new head of the week! >
  
  I'll bet he's thrilled at the chance. >
  
  I'll admit I interpreted that title a little differently for a moment there. >
  
  I wonder how many more they'll go through by the time this war concludes. >
  
  Maybe the replacement should go up a few more steps on the hierarchy. >
  
  For now >
  
  We've had one invasion, yes, but what about second invasion? >
  
  The old guy fell down the stairs? >
  
  That should do the trick. I really sense a turning point in this special operation /s >
  
  I give him 3 weeks >
  
  General Clusterfuck reporting for duty >
  
  It’s strange that all these new commanders all try the same strategy of flattening Ukraine Roth artillery. Not the most complex or daring strategy. >
  
  They really do seem to be gearing up for a second go at it from Belarus, those mad lads. I mean, wow. >
  
  He looks like a man about to suffer an unexplainable deadly accident. >
  
  Yeah, the last one, fell out a window. >
  
  Are we being literal? >
  
  Watch out for open windows. >
  
  AGAIN?  Nothing says "success" like a revolving door of failed commanders.  Putin remains a master strategist. >
  
  So... the same bloke who told his troops that digging trenches - in land where every shovel-full of soil they dug out was cooking their insides - was fine.
  This is going to end well for them, don't you think? >
  
  Did the other one fall out of a window? >
  
  I’m sure his death will involve falling out of a window >
  
  They have been changing a lot of horses in the middle of this stream. >
  
  What do you mean invasion? This is a special military operation. In and out - 20 minute adventure. /s >
  
  Not seeing this anywhere else.  Surovikin was just awarded a top medal by Putin on New Year's eve.  Lots of issues between Wagner and the Russian army, but this is likely wrong. >
  
  New Strategy will be to let the Ukrainians win and withdraw completely then buy or steal all the weaponry from corrupt Ukrainians, like himars and javelins and drones.  Then start a new war in 5 years under Shoigu or Kadryov >
  
  Dude. Remember all those Ukrainians who sold kherson oblast to the Russians?  And zelensky had to fire / purge a whole bunch of them last year. To believe all Ukrainians are good is naive.  In every group there are bad apples. >
  
  Mate theres at least one interview with people who were fighting in the international legion who have talked about whole trucks of weapons just up and disappearing.
  Ukrainians are not perfect, they're people like anyone else. This kind of shit happens in every war and you're naive as fuck if you don't think its happening here. It'll be happening on the Russian side too. >
  
  The previous one wont be going near any windows >
  
  can’t wait to see how long this one lasts. >
  
  Is this the guy they called general Armageddon? >
  
  This guy might want to be careful of high places, so many people have been falling out of windows lately. >
  
  This is giving FML >
  
  When are those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked going to be sacked? >
  
  Not until they figure out how to complete in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute. >
  
  Unfortunately, they are all on holiday in Sweden, seeing the lovely lakes, and the majestic moose. >
  
  Better to be replaced than to ‘accidentally’ fall out a window or violently fall down a long flight of stairs