Company of heroes edit controls2/11/2024 Expectations that a sizeable portion of the country’s population were in favor of political decapitation in Kyiv that a large number of state, military, and security officers were ready to defect or aid in Russian efforts and that local politicians would be waiting in the wings with sufficient clout, legitimacy, and personal skill to lead post-occupation efforts proved to be wrong on all counts. In contradistinction to its apt and aggressive reading of the ground-level Ukrainian political ecosystem in 2014, Russian intelligence failures in 2022 turned an attempted regime-change operation into a grinding regional war of attrition, with its political objectives forcibly downgraded and its military and economy both substantially degraded by the conflict. The Russian political leadership badly misjudged the domestic political environment in Ukraine in February 2022.
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