Comments on: Attack that injured Rogozin in the Ukraine also killed two

By: Jeff Wright

Jeff Wright — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 08:27:44 +0000

The one in that film at least died well. I love that movie.

By: wayne

wayne — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 12:58:02 +0000

Question:
What became of all the Political Officers that kept the military in line?

Enemy at the Gates (2001)
https://youtu.be/2IQJY5SsJ64?t=72

By: Jeff Wright

Jeff Wright — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 10:11:27 +0000

Dave

Lots of Russians were war children. You see what fatherlessness does in the city—here it is a whole nation. Putin was never a friend of space. Folks who likely hated him made Ukraine his Kolyma—where folks there hate him more.

You all might remember the Deep Space Nine episode “Duet,” where you had someone trying a bit too hard to be the villain….or Colonel Nicholson from BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KWAI.

I wonder if you have a bit of each in him.

This is his role…a Slavic Falstaff…and perhaps he has simply resigned himself to his fate. The fool to Putin’s Lear—but that gives Putin too much credit.

Rogozin probably wants a quick death.

Putin raided his space program. I remember Rogozin lamenting how he wished the oligarchs there were like Musk.

That likely sealed his fate.

Imagine if we had sent Von Braun to ‘Nam.

Pitiful.

By: pzatchok

pzatchok — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 01:57:05 +0000

From what i understand, and the Col should correct me, The Russian Army inherited the rank system from the soviets.
They did not technically have sergeants, just enlisted and officers. And the officers were just the enlisted who asked to re-enlist and were accepted.
No real officer training schools and no professional NCO class. Officers filled that class and were in charge of the direct training of the new conscripts.

I tend to think this style is what led to the faltering advances of Russia in the beginning and now the fall backs.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 18:16:40 +0000

Blair, I don’t think we can apply the Peter principle to Rogozin anymore since his “Broomstick” was allegedly shot off and surgery does not look promising according to Eric Berger aka “The War Criminal” :-)

https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace

By: sippin_bourbon

sippin_bourbon — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 20:43:57 +0000

I have wondered if he was not put into this position, with it’s inherent risks, on purpose.

By: Col Beausabre

Col Beausabre — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 14:55:08 +0000

“If Rogozin reaches buck private, what lower is available to reach his lowest level of incompetence?” Permanent latrine orderly

By: Col Beausabre

Col Beausabre — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 14:53:09 +0000

“Hopefully Putin will appreciate his heroism and put him in charge of an armored division.”

He wouldn’t fit inside a Russian tank. Speaking as an old armor officer, who has squeezed himself into captured vehicles (courtesy of our friends around the world), Mr Four feet wide by four feet deep won’t make it.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 14:39:23 +0000

I have been perceiving a very old style (modern era) bravado, a tough guy bully, from many corners of this Russian project (this Ukraine land grab). Rogozin seems exemplary of it, with the boasting, the posturing. Il Duce reincarnated? But the ultimate price of this chest beating, has it yet been paid? They are smoking in a room full of gasoline.

In contrast, Europe is mostly tamed following WWII, and at a huge cost. And American leadership. It shows a path to a more peaceful future. Yet the Russian leadership rejects this path. Not just their actions but with their nonsense rhetoric. And we will all pay another price for it.

There’s something very psychological going on here. Diseased minds, untreated. I don’t see how this ends well.

By: John hare

John hare — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 12:19:26 +0000

I’m not familiar with the Russian hierarchy Blair. If Rogozin reaches buck private, what lower is available to reach his lowest level of incompetence?

By: Blair Ivey

Blair Ivey — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 05:12:53 +0000

It looks like Rogozin will have to descend the ladder until he reaches his Peter Principle level: that is, the lowest position at which he is incompetent.

By: Andrew_W

Andrew_W — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 03:18:20 +0000

Hopefully Putin will appreciate his heroism and put him in charge of an armored division.

By: pzatchok

pzatchok — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 03:14:30 +0000

He is lucky Putin made him an officer.
He could have been made an artillery sergeant and forced to spend his days out on the field in a target zone.

By: John hare

John hare — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 02:24:37 +0000

Is it a position of authority to draw fire so others can target the source? Usually reserved for idiot officers surplus to the needs.

By: Col Beausabre

Col Beausabre — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 20:34:03 +0000

Of course, he was hit in the butt, it’s a target too big to miss. Only thing bigger is his mouth. Now we will have to endure hearing about how he was “wounded in the service of the Rodina”