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Cornered like a rat, Vladimir Putin is more dangerous than ever, warns Russia expert
THE DAILY MAIL ^ | 10 October 2022 | PROFESSOR MARK GALEOTTI

Posted on 10/10/2022 8:03:02 PM PDT by dennisw

The horrifying attacks on Ukraine yesterday– are a sign that the Russian president is, if not yet desperate, getting nearer to it.

They represent a highly significant psychological shift for the beleaguered leader. He is no longer trying to win the war: now he is simply trying not to visibly lose it.

Previously he could have defined victory however he wanted. But by annexing Ukrainian regions, he has upped the already high stakes. If he cedes so-called ‘Russian’ territory, he will become the Tsar who gave away Russian land instead of the strongman who restored the empire.

And by ordering partial mobilisation on September 21 he ensured the war now touches every Russian family. Putin has made the catastrophic mistake of calling his own bluff.

He realises he is fighting for his political life and, as we have seen before, he is ready to sacrifice countless lives at the altar of his own ambition. In 2000 he let 118 men die on the stricken Kursk submarine rather than accept help from the West to rescue them.

Now he is prepared to accept appallingly high casualties among the ill-trained conscripts he has sent to Ukraine.

The Russian army has been revealed as shoddy, incompetent and ill equipped. Money that should have been spent on maintenance was siphoned off. Meanwhile the Ukrainian army, equipped with 21st century weaponry by the West, and highly skilled partly thanks to British training, has inspired awe with its indomitable spirit.

Battlefield failure reflects badly on Putin personally because he has built himself up as a warrior president. Some years ago, I met a group of Russian officers who, after alcohol had lubricated tongues, were scathing about Putin’s military pretensions. ‘I wouldn’t want a virgin telling me what to do on my wedding night,’ one said.

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To: WMarshal
We are now in a war with Russia so you would be OK with Biden taking over American media and outlawing the Republican Party?

Every demonrat posting here is chomping at the bit to experience what you said there.

121 posted on 10/11/2022 4:24:26 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump WON!!! The Gestapo closes ranks.)
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To: buwaya

buwaya, Obviously you have not read The Parallel Election. There is an ongoing lawsuit in PA, judges are corrupt though and we will see where it goes, but it lays out clearly that in one county, that over 120,000 votes were manufactured and... at least 50,000 mail in votes from were not opened... Our government is corrupt and our elections were more than just a little rigged, the most evil and incompetent people are running the country because the elections were rigged and there is no accountability because the elections were rigged. OBTW, the most evil people in this cabal have been Republican traitors. And make no mistake they are traitors and are country is being destroyed by this corruption. The most evil traitors are in charge and they will destroy the world before for they give up power and are held accountable. We lost two vietnams, 107K of our people last year to 1 drug made in China coming through an open boarder that our government has allowed... We are being literally killed by this and you ignore industrial scale voter fraud and shrug...


122 posted on 10/11/2022 5:22:44 AM PDT by WinstonSmith1984
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To: BlackbirdSST

It is champimg at the bit, and I never look at keywords. I just glanced at the keywords here....whatever


123 posted on 10/11/2022 6:27:44 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: DannyTN

Gorbachev withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989, 10 or 11 years before Putin took power.


124 posted on 10/11/2022 6:28:21 AM PDT by skepsel ("A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime", Mark Twain.)
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To: MalPearce

Nicely put. I’d add that for the UK it’s about knitting woolly hats for the refugees. The scale of every international crisis is quantifiable by the number of hats knitted.


125 posted on 10/11/2022 6:30:48 AM PDT by Winniesboy
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To: dennisw
The horrifying attacks on Ukraine yesterday– are a sign that the Russian president is, if not yet desperate, getting nearer to it.

Why is he desperate? Don't you fire missiles into enemy territory in a war?

126 posted on 10/11/2022 6:33:02 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: skepsel

Thanks


127 posted on 10/11/2022 6:34:59 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: dennisw
It is champimg at the bit

No dennis, it really isn't.

128 posted on 10/11/2022 6:50:46 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump WON!!! The Gestapo closes ranks.)
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To: BlackbirdSST

Champing -— yes


129 posted on 10/11/2022 7:11:00 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: SaveFerris

🙏


130 posted on 10/11/2022 7:15:15 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: cranked

none of those links say anything but who is fighting on the Ukrainian side.

unless you mean that anyone who does not want to be under Moscow’s thumb is a Nazi


131 posted on 10/11/2022 7:17:57 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: laplata

https://pvtimes.com/news/test-site-contamination-creeping-toward-area-drinking-groundwater/


132 posted on 10/11/2022 7:51:03 AM PDT by crz
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To: Secret Agent Man

Murdoch is all in globalists on this
All News Corp orgs


133 posted on 10/11/2022 7:52:24 AM PDT by wardaddy (Sound and Fury Republic now home to more than a few globalists who really love the mainstream media )
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To: Williams

You are delusional


134 posted on 10/11/2022 7:53:05 AM PDT by wardaddy (Sound and Fury Republic now home to more than a few globalists who really love the mainstream media )
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To: DannyTN

Ukrop been doing that for years

Putin is now targeting infrastructure

Something the SMO avoided

Unlike ukrop shelling in Donbas since 2014

You guys lie to yourselves


135 posted on 10/11/2022 7:54:46 AM PDT by wardaddy (Sound and Fury Republic now home to more than a few globalists who really love the mainstream media )
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To: crz

That’s scary and a good example of unintended consequences on a tragic scale.

Thanks.


136 posted on 10/11/2022 7:56:13 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: cranked

Pretty much although spanking Afghanistan was warranted
But we should have left shortly after lesson taught

Muslims respect a firm slap

Nation building only works on certain cultures and when the enemy’s devastated

History teaches that

Globalists don’t learn


137 posted on 10/11/2022 7:57:23 AM PDT by wardaddy (Sound and Fury Republic now home to more than a few globalists who really love the mainstream media )
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To: WinstonSmith1984

If posters here bother to get alternative information besides globalist media they now suddenly believe about everything Ukraine you can get a decent picture of what’s going on although it’s not perfect and good alternative sources will clarify that their information has to be looked at with a grain of salt the globalist here don’t bother

The daily Mail is their gospel


138 posted on 10/11/2022 7:59:22 AM PDT by wardaddy (Sound and Fury Republic now home to more than a few globalists who really love the mainstream media )
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To: laplata

Like I said. They have no idea how much fallout from above ground tests got into the Colorado River system and delivered to California.

Hell, they contaminated the entire USA.

But cancer rates rising was not caused by fallout from those tests were they?

This government is responsible for more poisoning than any government in world history.


139 posted on 10/11/2022 8:00:25 AM PDT by crz
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To: crz

Good post and right on.

There is no government in the world more corrupt than the US Gov. and it is on a huge scale.


140 posted on 10/11/2022 8:11:52 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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