Russian soldiers are reportedly sabotaging their own vehicles because they don’t want to take part in Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, which is a nightmare for the Russian dictator, foreign relations expert Richard Haass said on MSNBC Friday morning.
During an interview with host Jonathan Lemire, Haass acknowledge that Russia’s invasion may be unstoppable but it may ultimately lead to Putin’s demise, noted The Raw Story.
Lemiere started off by pointing out the obvious about the invasion: “If you believe Vladimir Putin, his invasion of Ukraine is going according to plan, that’s a dubious assessment, Lemire said. “But still what he said during a virtual meeting of his security council yesterday. Putin continued to push false claims that Nazis are in control of the Ukrainian government.”
“The speech was intended to push back against reports of logistical problems slowing down the Russian army as well as intelligence from the Pentagon that some Russian troops are surrendering or sabotaging their own vehicles rather than fighting,” the host stated before asking Haass for comment.
‘”I don’t think there’s any way, Jonathan, he can get his original plan back on track because that ship has sailed. He was counting on very little resistance from Ukraine, he had no respect for Zelenskyy, he thought the United States after Afghanistan had no stomach.”
“He underestimated his opposition, overestimated the capability of his own forces,” Hass opined. “So now we are clearly on Plan B. Now he is basically turning to quantity, if you will, more than quality to essentially level big parts of Ukraine, Hass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations. said.
“Clearly they have more troubles. The Russians aren’t used to fighting this kind of war. This isn’t what they did in Syria — it is at a scale they’re not used to,” Has said. “The equipment looks old, the troops don’t look well-trained, they’re not motivated, they don’t seem to understand what it is they’re doing and why, so I think this is of a larger piece, Hass said before commenting on the reports that Russian soldiers are sabotaging their own mission.
“The idea that there might be some troops sabotaging is really interesting. It doesn’t seem to be happening at scale, but this has got to be Putin’s nightmare because essentially he depends upon his security forces, not just the soldiers but obviously inside the country. That’s any autocrat’s nightmare, that as protests begin to mount that the security forces either get overwhelmed or show sympathy with the protesters.”
Watch the interview below via MSNBC:
