Within the request for military assistance that US officials say the Russians made to China in recent weeks, CNN reports there was a specific ask for MREs or “meals ready to eat”, meaning the Russian military is so fucked up and disorganized that they didn’t even have the field rations to issue to their soldiers to carry with them and eat while they’re invading a neighboring country.
This tracks with reporting on Russian soldiers looting Ukrainian homes and businesses looking for food – and being issued MREs that expired in 2002, which in turn doesn’t really inspire a lot of confidence overall in Putin’s military’s ability to get the job done. We’re not military experts here and aren’t going to act like we went to West Point or Annapolis like some of the instant experts out there in MAGA World have been more then happy to do. However it doesn’t take a Sun Tzu to know that soldiers need to eat, especially in a physically demanding situation like combat. If they can’t even handle the fucking basics like feeding their men then how the hell were they supposed to win?