Posted on 05/07/2022 4:43:51 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said that a number of Russian generals and leading figures were "turning in on themselves" as they seek to avoid becoming fall guys for Putin's stuttering invasion.
Russian generals are reportedly “turning in on themselves” as the war in Ukraine continues to go not to plan in an effort to escape Putin’s wrath.
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said that Putin’s senior military brass were scrambling to dodge blame for the stuttering invasion.
He said they were blaming one another for the “disaster” of the war so far, and lived in terror of being purged if the “quagmire” turned into a retreat for the Kremlin’s forces, the Times reports.
Wallace said that military chiefs in the general staff were already scapegoats for Putin’s botched invasion.
He added: "Those in the military system were “always terrified they are about to be purged and pushed out."
Wallace made the comments whilst in Finland to observe a military exercise with British troops and tanks.
He also said that the generals were getting closer and closer to the frontline in an effort to try and “sort out this quagmire that they’re in”.
He said: “They do it by shouting and screaming at people but it tends not to get the best result.”
Most recently, reports said that General Valery Gerasimov, chief of the Russian general staff, had recently headed to the frontline in a highly unusual move.
According to a Russian news outlet, the 66-year-old general was injured by shrapnel during fighting in Izyum, eastern Ukraine and had to be evacuated.
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When Ben Wallace was asked if Gerasimov was being sent out as a “fall guy” the cabinet minister warned: “They’re all in fall guy territory.
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Whoever screwed up and let another cruiser get sunk deserves early retirement. Maybe loss of her pension.
(What? Russia doesn’t have women admirals?)
Ukraine: military situation update with maps, May 7, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImdtgjCmMrU
Lord of the Flykies.
I don’t think it’s surprising the Russians suffer serious losses now that the war has dragged on and Ukraine is getting substantial equipment and logistical support from the West.
More British tabloid “reporting”.
He’s sick with Big C. Good time to slip doctor a few mil to have him not recover. May be what was done with Stalin.
So how does Defense Secretary Ben Wallace know all this, or is it just speculation on his part? The over the top propaganda coming from the Brits even surpasses that of the Americans, no wonder Putin has been musing over a nuclear strike on them in the media lately. He claims he can take out the UK and Ireland with just one 100 megaton nuke hitting the sea between them.
Good luck with that. Even Brandon isn’t bought and paid for enough to ignore a nuclear strike.
But Xi Jingpig is the paragon of virtue.
What makes you think Brandon is making the decisions?
Whoever is, they can’t just ignore a nuclear strike on the UK. That would be the end of Moscow, at the very least, and more likely the entire world.
BREAKING: Foreign Minister Lavrov says US-funded Israeli Nazi Jews use black magic to torture Russian children in secret Ukrainian biolabs on the other side of flat earth pic.twitter.com/vIWcFXsnDd— Sputnik Not (@Sputnik_Not) May 4, 2022
RE: Vladimir Putin’s generals and top brass ‘turning on each other’ to avoid his wrath
What about working together to get rid of Putin altogether?
“The over the top propaganda coming from the Brits even surpasses that of the Americans, no wonder Putin has been musing over a nuclear strike on them in the media lately.”
And the propaganda from Russia?
I haven’t seen much coming from them, care to point out a few examples?
“I haven’t seen much coming from them, care to point out a few examples?”
Yeah. If it’s from a Russian source it is propaganda. The Russians mastered propaganda before we even learned how to spell it. No one else is even in their league. Hell, the Chinese are childish in their propaganda compared to the Russians, and we’re only slightly more advanced than China in that respect. The Russians are the unquestioned masters of propaganda.
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