Blind? Maybe an overstatement. Unprepared? Typical.
I find it a lot more disturbing, myself, that after a few weeks of denying it, the Russian officials acknowledge in September that conscript troops were involved in fighting in the region. The good old doctrine of using "free" manpower as cannon fodder is alive and well in the current regime.
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