{"id":110744,"date":"2022-03-23T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=110744"},"modified":"2022-03-23T08:55:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T12:55:02","slug":"nyt-as-russia-stalls-in-ukraine-dissent-brews-over-putins-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=110744","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) As Russia Stalls in Ukraine, Dissent Brews Over Putin\u2019s Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">In January, the head of a group of serving and retired Russian military officers declared that invading Ukraine would be \u201cpointless and extremely dangerous.\u201d It would kill thousands, he said, make Russians and Ukrainians enemies for life, risk a war with NATO and threaten \u201cthe existence of Russia itself as a state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">To many Russians, that seemed like a far-fetched scenario, since <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/24\/world\/europe\/putin-russia-ukraine.html\">few imagined that an invasion of Ukraine was really possible<\/a>. But two months later, as Russia\u2019s advance stalls in Ukraine, the prophecy looms large. Reached by phone this week, the retired general who authored the declaration, Leonid Ivashov, said he stood by it, though he could not speak freely given Russia\u2019s wartime censorship: \u201cI do not disavow what I said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">In Russia, the slow going and the heavy toll of President Vladimir V. Putin\u2019s war on Ukraine are setting off questions about his military\u2019s planning capability, his confidence in his top spies and loyal defense minister, and the quality of the intelligence that reaches him. It also shows the pitfalls of Mr. Putin\u2019s top-down governance, in which officials and military officers have little leeway to make their own decisions and adapt to developments in real time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">The failures of Mr. Putin\u2019s campaign are apparent in the striking number of senior military commanders believed to have been killed in the fighting. Ukraine says it has killed at least six Russian generals, while Russia acknowledges one of their deaths, along with that of the deputy commander of its Black Sea fleet. American officials say they cannot confirm the number of Russian troop deaths, but that Russia\u2019s invasion plan appears to have been stymied by bad intelligence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/22\/world\/europe\/putin-russia-military-planning.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January, the head of a group of serving and retired Russian military officers declared that invading Ukraine would be \u201cpointless and extremely dangerous.\u201d It would kill thousands, he said, make Russians and Ukrainians enemies for life, risk a war<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=110744\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,479,469],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-armed-forces","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110747,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110744\/revisions\/110747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}