Greek-American James Stavridis blasts Russia’s military performance in Ukraine. Credit: Facebook/General Staff Armed Forces UkraineJames Stavridis, the former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, said that Russia’s “amazing incompetence” in Ukraine has resulted in a loss of generals and other top officers that is unprecedented in modern history.
In an interview that aired Sunday with John Catsimatidis on WABC 770 AM, the Greek-American Vice Chairman of the Carlyle Group, an American multinational private equity, alternative asset management and financial services corporation, said that at least a dozen Russian generals were killed.
“In modern history, there is no situation comparable in terms of the deaths of generals. … Here, on the Russian side, in a two-month period, we’ve seen at least a dozen, if not more, Russian generals killed.”
For comparison, Stavridis cited recent American conflicts, saying that “not a single general was lost in actual combat” in the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
“It’s not just the generals being killed,” said Stavridis of the Russian military, additionally noting “their inability to conduct logistics,” “bad battle plan” and “loss of their flagship at sea.”
