When Russia attacked Ukraine for the second time, in February 2022, we already know that it assumed that the armed attack was to be something like another “small, victorious war (or alternatively a peculiar operation)”, and contrary to the assumptions of the Kremlin ruler and his cronies, it exposed many of the country's systemic weaknesses. Of course, it should be noted here that the same weaknesses that analysts have talked about so far, but for various reasons, have not penetrated into the contractual mainstream. From outright sanctioned nepotism, corruption, the deficiency of a de facto effective decision-making strategy (especially erstwhile considering Putin's position as a good tsar, judging the battles of the coterie and factions around him), to the pretence of many modernization and training processes within the armed forces there.
