RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: Putin is losing his second campaign in the war — and this time the excuses don’t work. The failed blitzkrieg of 2022 was a major setback, but Moscow still believed its manpower and money would guarantee victory in a long war of attrition. Four years later, that logic has collapsed. Russia entered the war convinced that mass + money = victory. But warfare changed while the Kremlin kept fighting yesterday’s war. 🔥 What Moscow underestimated: Technologies like drones, AI systems and precision weapons reshaped the battlefield. Resource superiority turned into a trap — it allowed Russia to keep a failing strategy alive. Costs now rise faster than gains as the army

Putin is losing his second campaign in the war — and this time the excuses don’t work.   The failed blitzkrieg of 2022 was a major setback, but Moscow still believed its manpower and money would guarantee victory in a long war of attrition. Four years later, that logic has collapsed.
Russia entered the war convinced that mass + money = victory. But warfare changed while the Kremlin kept fighting yesterday’s war.
🔥 What Moscow underestimated:

Technologies like drones, AI systems and precision weapons reshaped the battlefield.
Resource superiority turned into a trap — it allowed Russia to keep a failing strategy alive.

Costs now rise faster than gains as the army pushes toward Donetsk.
New capabilities were treated as “supplements” — until they became decisive.

Putin tried to win a 2026 war with 2000‑era thinking. Ukraine and its partners reinvented the battlefield — and Russia noticed only when the losses became impossible to hide.
#️⃣  #Russia  #Ukraine  #War  #Putin  #Technology 🇬🇧

— @jalle51 Jul 26, 2026