“One anonymous Western official”
This must be serious if Bad Vlad (The anti-globohomos savior for the Ron Paulist faction FReepers) is calling a meeting of his security council. Pooty better keep an eye eye on his Chef, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is angling to replace Vlad with his Wagner Group (private army) in the Kremlin. Teaming up with Chechen Muslim mastermind Kadyrov (private army) to putsch Putin.
Vlad Putin- Beware the ides of March. You are dead or deposed by then.
bkmk
I think Russian may soon regret escalating to mass drone strikes, since Russia itself seems to have no defense system to respond to those kind of strikes, and Ukraine can now produce their own long range drones...
Ukraine performing deep strikes in Russia will drive Putin to escalating responses. This man has an arsenal of chemical weapons and has used them before. Striking an airbase that houses strategic bombers 600km in Russia is cute, and had NATO support, but Russia in not known for restraint when it feels threatened. The average Russia knows this war would be over if not for American intervention, and that it is western arms killing Russians. Since the Cuban Missile Crisis we have had a policy of avoiding direct confrontation with Russia. The Biden state department gave the green light to Putin, then piled on to “ Bleed the Russian Military”, their words, not mine. Stupid is as Stupid does. We will regret this. We think that Russia is losing because they are inept. It’s losing because the politicians haven’t unleashed all of Russia’s capabilities to wage war. Look at what politics did to us in Korea,Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Mexico. My hope is that we can get a settlement before it escalates out of hand. It’s headed to a nasty ending.