Suzannah Rowntree’s Reviews > Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence > Status Update
  
    
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      ok I knew Kyrylo Budanov, the competent chief of military intelligence, was some kind of internet meme deity but. besties I have to admit. deciding on a whim that you're going to tag along with the most elite special forces brigade in the Ukrainian army to help storm and liberate a small village while the Russians are literally lobbing cruise missiles at your office is officially the most legendary thing I've heard
    
    
      — May 17, 2025 12:35AM
    
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      not to be completely unbearable, but this book is reminding me how correct I was, all the times I've said something about the war in Ukraine and SOME BLOKE has well-actually'd me
    
    
      — May 14, 2025 08:07PM
    
  
  
    
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      oh this is fantastic - well written and informed.
SO the reason the West thought Ukraine was dead meat was that General Zaluzhny had all these plans for defending the country but didn't want to tell anyone anything, including the political leadership of his own country, in case the Russians got a hold of it.
"we didn't want to lose the element of surprise" said Zaluzhny
I'm sorry but what an absolute legend
    
      — May 07, 2025 08:42PM
    
  SO the reason the West thought Ukraine was dead meat was that General Zaluzhny had all these plans for defending the country but didn't want to tell anyone anything, including the political leadership of his own country, in case the Russians got a hold of it.
"we didn't want to lose the element of surprise" said Zaluzhny
I'm sorry but what an absolute legend

