| | | Sun Tzu's en.wikipedia.org 36 guidance-points are very wise
the problem TJ is that you understand them upside down =meaning wrongly
Russia failed to follow the rule as is China lately
From glancing over the various post on this tread it proves to me that all the armchair generals who never went on covert operation never where in a war under enemy fire if by canons or rockets and never in their life crossed enemy lines to do their job - are completely clueless to be modest.
Videos and stories or movies are all irrelevant to get an handle on a real war at a time that on democratic nation was attacked unprovoked by a country with a crumbling economy who used scorched earth tactics in their different small wars.
All fits in with the legacy and heritage of the Varangians and the Rurik dynasty modernized by a Prussian Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst; who later was know as Catherine the Great.
As to history of Ukraine please hit the history books and some old maps and understand the people who where they and who actually contributed most to the Bolshevik Revolution - the same guys that brought indirectly Mao to power.
In her accession to power and her rule of the empire, Catherine often relied on her noble favourites, most notably Count Grigory Orlov and Grigory Potemkin. Assisted by highly successful generals such as Alexander Suvorov and Pyotr Rumyantsev, and admirals such as Samuel Greig and Fyodor Ushakov, she governed at a time when the Russian Empire was expanding rapidly by conquest and diplomacy. In the south, the Crimean Khanate was crushed following victories over the Bar confederation and Ottoman Empire in the Russo-Turkish War, 1768–1774. With the support of the United Kingdom, Russia colonised the territories of Novorossiya along the coasts of the Black and Azov Seas. In the west, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, ruled by Catherine's former lover King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski, was eventually partitioned, with the Russian Empire gaining the largest share. In the east, Russians became the first Europeans to colonise Alaska, establishing Russian America.
Catherine reformed the administration of Russian guberniyas (governorates), and many new cities and towns were founded on her orders, most notably Odessa, Dnipro, Kherson, Mykolaiv and Sevastopol. An admirer of Peter the Great, Catherine continued to modernise Russia along Western European lines. However, military conscription and the economy continued to depend on serfdom, and the increasing demands of the state and of private landowners intensified the exploitation of serf labour. This was one of the chief reasons behind rebellions, including the large-scale Pugachev Rebellion of Cossacks, nomads, peoples of Volga and peasants. |
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