More than half a trillion dollars allocated for the much-vaunted modernization of the army have been stolen by the Russian generals and spent on mansions, luxury yachts and vehicles.
The generals had smugly said to themselves: if Putin steals, why not us ?
This slogan is the basis of Putin's system of total corruption.
The generals couldn't stop stealing, fooling Putin into believing they were building modern weapons (while working on rehashed projects from the 1970s), and he believed them.
The contractors stole from the officials and generals.
The subcontractors stole from the contractors.
Everyone stole, stole, stole.
The chance of making a killing was greater than the risk of getting caught, because everyone was stealing - that was the system Putin had set up.
The generals did not want a war with Ukraine, and it was to be a special operation, because their whole plan was based on the panic of the population, as it happened on the Maidan when the Russian puppet president ran away.
They did not take into account the self-organized capabilities of Ukrainians, heroism and President Zelenskyj, who did not flee.