Russian equipment.

Their best troops were not used yet. They are probing the Ukrainian defenses and letting the Ukrainians wear down fighting second tier units and hardware.

... while preserving their best men and stuff.

But the media keeps saying that Putin is stupid.

Their best men and stuff is about equal to what we have seen. Their Army and Air Force is pathetic. They just have a shitload of it.

You never saw their best equipment in Ukraine. Only old T72 tanks and the like.

They might have to defend their own land in the future, so they will keep the best for last.

So they basically sent in the least trained soldiers with inferior equipment, and let them die. No concern that they were sending them into a meat grinder with less than mediocre support.

Boy, that's gotta do a lot for the Russian military morale.

Any chance they are hanging back to hit a nato country?

Thank God you are not a commander of troops.

I keep saying to all the idiots who think Putin is getting his ass handed to him, why in the hell would Putin waste his good shit when he knows NATO has already given Ukraine Javelins and stuff. All his best troops and equipment are waiting in the wings for the fight to come.

He's not stupid, but he is a typical power addiction short man with no morality or ethics other than unearned wealth and lost for power.

He was a spy and subversive and thats his go-to orientation.

Even his grown children don't live in Russia. They live in the west.

If that’s true, why not just commit them to an offensive? It’s not like he is going to piss people off more, or get more sanctions.