Warmongers are watching the wrong channel

If Russian forces could barely advance into Ukraine before their logistics and resupply collapsed into chaos, what chance could they have to conduct large-scale military operations in the barren Arctic?

Russian General Sergey Surovikin went on Russian state television last week to announce they would be making a temporary tactical withdrawal from the Ukrainian city of Kherson. Screenshot courtesy of CNN

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

November 14, 2022

OTTAWA—It has been nearly nine months since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine. What was expected to be a lightning-strike armoured assault to capture Kyiv has turned into a long, drawn-out farcical rout of the Russian military. Last week, Putin’s senior defence of...

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