Posted on 11/11/2022 4:22:00 AM PST by Timber Rattler
When Gen. Sergey Surovikin was appointed the overall commander of Russian forces in Ukraine a month ago, the Kremlin’s cheerleaders in the media lauded him as exactly the kind of severe warrior needed to bring order to the stumbling invasion. “General Armageddon,” some called him.
The general appeared on national television in a rather different role on Wednesday: He was the designated bearer of bad tidings, announcing that Russia should abandon the southern regional capital of Kherson in order to preserve the lives of its soldiers there.
President Vladimir V. Putin, who in a belligerent appearance in Moscow’s Red Square just weeks earlier had declared Kherson part of Russia for eternity, was somewhere else — celebrating the 75th anniversary of the federal Medical-Biological Agency.
The distance was deliberate. With each new pronounced setback in Ukraine, however, it is getting harder for Mr. Putin to separate himself from the whiff of failure, which is gradually eroding his image as a decisive, indomitable leader.
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Im afraid I have grown too used to the honesty of our leaders and Zelle Zelensky (wire me more money)
Mockingbird cia press trying to create a problem with fake news… just like here. Funny to see NYT so revered by some here lol.
MacFarquhar grew up in the 1960s in Brega, a fenced-off expatriate oil compound in Libya. MacFarquhar went to elementary school in Libya. He graduated from Deerfield Academy and then Stanford University in international relations in 1982…
A perfect CIA resume
So you’re claiming that the Russians have not left Kherson, that the Antonovsky Bridge has not been blown, and that Comrade Putin is not trying to distance himself from the mess he created, based on this reporter’s resume?
Money, money, money........ your concern for money is ridiculous when the opportunity to invest in the destruction and doom of a major American and European enemy is presented.
You think only of expense and can’t comprehend an investment. You worrywart the concept that spent money is gone. When money is invested, there is the return not only of principle but dividends or interest.
The whining about money invested in the Ukraine war is not really relevant
Hot Damn! We're all gonna get rich!
Nowhere to Be Found
He knows a coup when he sees one his time is up.
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