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Originally Posted by Damien
It's not just that though. It's how their propaganda are ramping things up rather than trying to craft a narrative that allows Putin to sell any withdrawal as a success.
This Tweet from Konstantin Kisin: https://twitter.com/KonstantinKisin/...26809993011205
For example is concerning
As was Putin's speech. He always seemed to be trying to test Western resolve as much as he could get away with, now he doesn't seem to care about that. |
I think you’re giving them too much credit. They just aren’t the formidable organised machine we’ve been conditioned to think they are (by their own shills, incidentally, who have been drip-feeding the narrative into Western media for years).
The sycophants in the media are following the last instructions they were given and they’re not being given anything new vis a vis strategic withdrawal because the ‘top’ is paralysed. Putin is making many decisions personally and those around him who ought to be able to attend to these issues themselves simply can’t for fear of finding themselves near an unsecured 3rd storey window.
Putin himself is not the master strategist we (again) have been conditioned to believe he is. He prevaricates in the face of big decisions and ultimately tends to stick unimaginatively to the old Soviet doctrine of ‘escalate to de-escalate’. He’s doing this because some dusty old manual once told him he should, not because he’s following some well drawn plan.
Putin cannot ‘use’ a nuclear weapon of any size because it’s not his finger on the trigger. Even if he gives such an order it has to pass through various other hands, some of which are connected to heads that still have some sense of self preservation and will be aware of exactly what threats the US and its allies have made, should things get that far.
There *is* disaffection with the regime in Moscow and sooner or later it will boil over. I think we will have to see a much greater Russian collapse in Ukraine before that happens, but I also begin to think that collapse is closer than we have allowed ourselves to believe.
(Edit) The Red Square rally is pure theatre from a desperate regime that needs (1) its own people not to turn on it and (2) the West to stop arming Ukraine because Ukraine is winning the war. Seriously, stop falling for their mind games.