Bessent open to increasing sanctions on Russia

The Hill ^ | 1/16/2025 | ALEXANDER BOLTON

[Owen]

Nah, they are classmates with the senior Russian military officers. At age 19 they were at Russian universities with the local equivalent of ROTC and service academies.

That’s why they were selected. They are friends of decades.

[NorseViking]

Lol. Be a little bit recent. It is 35 years since they last time have been in the same school.

[Owen]

It takes that long to advance. Anytime pre 2014, btw. That’s where students went — to Russia universities.

Senior officers will be 50+.

[NorseViking]

Ukraine’s military is dominated by the US since 1993. Most with ties to Russia are long purged.

[Owen]

You are going to have to believe me when I describe this search.

Ukraine generals — there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Staff_of_the_Ukrainian_Armed_Forces

It gave a list of positions and then, scrolling, names occupying them. I didn’t want the most prominent so scroll and this is the part to believe, the very first name I chose was a guy Sergii Naiev. Not all the links were purple or red or blue (clickable). His was.

This was the very first name grabbed and his click says

Naiev was born on 30 April 1970, in Mohyliv-Podilskyi, Vinnytsia Oblast, and pursued his education from 1987 to 1991 at the Moscow Higher Military Command School, attaining the rank of lieutenant upon completion.[3][4]

I don’t want to spend much time on this so one more name

Oleksiy Neizhpapa was born on 9 October 1975 in Sevastopol, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. He graduated from Nakhimov Naval Academy in 1997. (The Admiral Nakhimov Higher Naval School [a] is a higher naval education institution of Russia which prepares future officers for the Russian Navy.)

These are the guys CIA and MI6 have to watch. For the overall scenario presented. Multi decade friendships with their classmates. But that is from a coup perspective. If the US and Russia agrees to Ukraine senior military running the govt, no need for coup.