The general Carlo Jean, an expert in military strategy and president of the Center for Economic Geopolitics, is convinced that the war in Ukraine will be a defeat on the ground for Russian troops. For Jean, the military failure is comparable to Mussolini’s in Greece during World War II. “Vladimir Putin has to swallow the bitter pill and persuade himself to withdraw. to then contribute financially to rebuilding what he destroyed in Ukraine. He will say even more: if there was no Ukrainian nation, then he managed to create it. And if NATO fell apart Putin reconstituted it: you should give him a medal of honor…”, explains the general.
Jean explains the reasons for the difficulties of the Russian troops: “They lack infantry because they have reorganized for war against armored and mechanized armies like those of NATO. Hence the tactical battalion groups deployed by the Russians they have fewer than 200 infantrymen per thousand men. And in an unconventional war, the defenders, who know the terrain well and hide in forests and rubble in the end they win by inflicting significant losses.
For Russia there are no bombers either: “Almost all of them were involved in the transport of nuclear weapons. And from the 60s70s only about ten are modern. The others are from the 1970s. Nothing comparable to the American one.” B52. Since Russia did not have enough money, he invested them mainly in strategic weapons, such as nuclear submarines and highspeed missiles. In addition, the military doctrine of the Russian armed forces provides for the use of tactical nuclear weapons in the event of an escalation. but Russia cannot afford to destroy a city in the case of Ukraine: Demolishing St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv would be like the French destroying St. Peter’s there. That is why they limit themselves to artillery, even if, as in Mariupol, it causes painful casualties among the civilian population. But to conquer the cities, I repeat, the Russians do not have a suitable army. They don’t have enough infantry and that explains why they intend to use Syrian volunteers,” General Jean closes.