How has the WSJ come to know this? Or is it just propaganda?
Check out the extraordinary security measures Putin had today in St. Petersburg against the protesters:
https://twitter.com/bbbayh/status/1500423919576178688
That is Palace Square near the Hermitage Museum, for those who have been to St. Petersburg
Putin arrested 4,400 today in 56 cities and so a big jump in total protesters arrested to over 10,000
Sounds kinda like W’s military chiefs…
“Netflix is shutting down all services in Russia”
The grind continues.
Rupert Murdoch is one of the worst pro-amnesty globalists in the world. The UKR army is getting devastated. Rus will likely control everything east of Dnipers river in 30-60 days and thats astoundingly fast.Check out todays danzig mapper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2TPuiLZDCs
In real life, 50% of the Ukrainian territory minus Nazi Galicia is under Russian control and that is after 10 days of operation.
Ukraine is only winning by stupid staged online videos selling its own losses for the foiled Russian offensive.
The European countries need to take notes. If it was Germany it could have been under full Russian control by now.
“American Express Suspends Operations in Russia and Belarus”
“Some Goldman Sachs Employees Moving Out of Russia to Dubai”
Why would you post a WSJ article when the reader can’t read it unless they have a subscription to the WSJ??
President Zoolander is tougher than Bin Laden.
He’ll continue the fight from caves in Ukraine.
Zelinskyy is asking his people to fight and die for a lost cause, and is asking the world to get pulled into WWIII.
So this defense minister was blowing smoke up Putin’s butt and he was too dumb to realize that. Thats sad for the great Russian 5D chess master. After being being in power as long as Putin has been, this is common. They surround themselves with more and more yes men who tell them what they want to hear.
WSJ == just another ruling class mouthpiece.
The military was also used to punish opponents of Mr. Putin, who were sent to harsh locations to do their military service. “It’s seen as a kind of punishment for people who don’t know how to keep their mouths shut,” said a person with ties to the Defense Ministry.
Young Russian males must serve one year in the armed forces.
What the article indicates is that this is used to punish young people who politically oppose Putin, by sending them to the Arctic Circle or some such when they do their one-year military duty.
Interestingly, this jibes with something the FSB whistle-blower said in his letter, translated from Russian:
From the pros: we did everything so that even a hint of the mass sending of "penalty boxes" to the front line did not pass. Send convicts and "socially unreliable" political prisoners there (so that they don't mess with the water inside the country) - the morale of the army will simply go into the negative. And the enemy is motivated, terribly motivated. He knows how to fight, there are enough middle-level commanders there. There are weapons. They have support. We will simply set a precedent for human loss in the world. And that's it.
So I gather the practice of sending young political opponents of Putin's to undesirable locations when they do their one-year military service is called the "penalty box" from hockey terminology. But it was considered a bad idea to send these people to the front lines in Ukraine because they are not motivated to fight for Putin's victory.
Russia planned a fifteen day campaign at the minimum. The three-day-blitz was what the west thought was the plan when the invasion started. Sen. Marco Rubio tweeted on it when this started. Turns out advisors to western governments had that part wrong.
The Ukraine military posted on on Facebook that they seized the Russian operation plans (The situation regarding the Russian invasion). Russia's state run Pravda reported it as well (Russia's secret documents: war in Ukraine was to last 15 days" Pravda link).
WSJ is shifting the Russian goalpost. Russia's plan was to take longer than initially thought in the west. It is also taking longer than Russia anticipated. WSJ is treating this as if it is a quagmire. The elephant in the living room is that this is a invasion of another country. Russia did not invade expecting they would face no long term consequences. Even if it takes a few more weeks, in the long term that will not matter and Ukrainians will be no less oppressed for it.
In truth, Twitter is going to have a meltdown in the coming weeks. The bulk of the Ukranian army, which has been stationed on the east fighting the DPR/LPR breakaway factions since 2014, is facing total annihilation. They'll be surrounded in the Donbas kessel, cut off, and wiped out after which the Russian army will regroup and take Kiev from the south.
And all those airplanes we're sending them? The Russians will crater every useable airfield in Ukraine, leaving only NATO bases from which they can operate.
That’s exactly right. This will go down just as it did in Afghanistan. The Russians thought they’d just rip through there like a hot knife through butter… they’re going to be pinned down for a long time.
“Russia is recruiting Syrians skilled in urban combat to fight in Ukraine” -WSJ.
I am reminded that our own General Milley chief at the Pentagon forecast that 72 hours would be enough time for Russia to roll over Ukraine.
