nobody with a clue in Russia thought the war was going to end in 3 days unless Kiev surrendered immediately. winning in 3 days by force? retarded, impossible

the Russian 3 day war was a fantasy conjured up by RAND -- an American thinktank -- in 2016 based on an entirely different scenario with an entirely different objective

incredible that people still repeat that nonsense but of course, despite three years of conventional war to study, the layman remains almost entirely ignorant war. I've begun to think it's a subject most people simply cannot comprehend and reason about at all