Putin, like Hitler, takes day to day command of his invasion

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Putin, like Hitler, takes day to day command of his invasion

Published: Monday, May 2nd, 2022 @ 9:48 pm
By: John Steed ( More Entries )

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is taking full day to day operational control of his invasion of Ukraine. This comes a day after the senior general Putin had sent to take command of the Russian campaign in the Donbas was wounded by shrapnel in a Ukrainian attack on his command post and was evacuated to Russia. Putin's background was in the KGB and he has no military training.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10775259/Putin-compared-Stalin-paranoia-says-former-KGB-agent.html

This is similar to Hitler imposing his battle plans on the German General Staff in World War II, leading to monumental blunders that cost Germany the war. Hitler had been a corporal in World War I and so had slightly more military experience than his fellow fascist Putin.

Putin seems intent on copying one of Hitler's major blunders. While the General Staff wanted to isolate Stalingrad and keep pushing the retreating Soviets, and seize the oil fields beyond Stalingrad, Hitler insisted on stopping and taking the city because it was named for his rival Stalin. That allowed the Soviets to regroup, counterattack, and change the course of the war. Now Putin is putting personality in play again by insisting his army concentrate of taking the city of Zelensky's birth, a city of a million people. Putin seems intent on setting up his own Stalingrad debacle.

Hitler and Putin apparently share one other thing in common - Parkinson's disease and the paranoia that goes with it.

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borderhawk said:

( May 4th, 2022 @ 11:00 am )

The scary thing in that newspaper article from the Daily Mail is not about Putin taking control of the war campaign, but the statements by his former KGB crony about Putin's declining mental health. Someone with mental health issues controlling nuclear weapons is not good at all.

Steven P. Rader said:

( May 3rd, 2022 @ 7:56 pm )

Yes, Hitler lost World War II for Germany (fortunately) because he kept ordering his generals what to do. The major blunders I remember from the History of World War II course I took in addition to the Stalingrad blunder included Hitler halting General Hans Guderian's panzers for 24 hours because he was paranoid it was a trap as Guderian raced across France, thus giving the British time to evacuate their army at Dunkirk. Also, prior to D-Day, Field Marshall Rommel realized that the fake US army under Paton was not real and that the attack would actually come in Normandy, requesting Germany's panzer reserves be shifted so they could counterattack an allied landing in Normandy. Hitler refused, and the panzer reserves were too far away to be of any use. Another was when Messerschmit developed an operational jet fighter in 1942, Hitler overruled the Luftwafe and insisted it be redesigned as a fighter-bomber, so it did not go into production until early 1945, when it was too late. It also was a dud in a bombing role although it was very potent as a fighter. America and the allies were lucky that Hitler had a knack for overruling his generals when his generals were right about things. Incidentally, I saw once of those Messerschmit jet fighter-bombers at the Imperial War Museum in London. Good thing Hitler screwed up production of them.

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