Does this make sense to anyone?
I’m scratchin’ my head...
Yes. See the movie “Red October” where the US official says to the Russian Ambassador, “Don’t tell me, you’ve lost another submarine”.
Things in Russia always go “disappearski”.
New George Clooney movie coming out soon, based on the old Bob Hope “road movies”. It will be called “On the Road to Donestk”, staring George Clooney and Sean Penn, with Rosie O’Donnell playing the lead truck.
Theme song, Eddie Kendrick’s “Keep on Truckin’”. Alternative theme songs suggested:
“Truckin” - Greatful Dead?
“On the Road Again” Willie Nelson
“We Have Us a Convoy” JT? somebody
“500 Miles to Go”
Style over substance.
Putin was part of formulating that losing strategy.
It plays well to a certain captive audience, but that audience has to be cowed and also willing to profess support in numbers large enough to cause a sense of general fear and reinforce it in their own local communities.
Russians can allign themselves with the criminal violent civilian element, or the criminal violent government element.
Often they are the same people.
But the only choice is which violent criminal group holds more sway on any given day.
It is a simple matter of survival for a people who have lived that way for many generations.
The rest of the former USSR/Warsaw Pact nations have broken away from that model.
Is it starting to make sense to you?