Posted on 09/13/2022 1:41:52 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
Brutal realizations have been raining upon the Kremlin’s top propagandists—and when it rains, it pours. The same pundits who used to threaten NATO countries with nuclear strikes are begrudgingly acknowledging that Russia’s Armed Forces have suffered a series of humiliating setbacks in Ukraine.
Appearing on Russia’s NTV show The Meeting Place on Monday, policy analyst Viktor Olevich surmised: “Unfortunately, the situation is difficult. Can we say that the Russian forces moved closer to meeting the goals and carrying out the tasks set by the president at the beginning of the special operation—or did they get further away? Obviously, we’re now further away.”
Bogdan Bezpalko, member of the Council for Interethnic Relations under the President of the Russian Federation, was even more outspoken. “For two months, Ukrainian Armed Forces and military equipment have been massing in that area, all Telegram channels have been writing about it. Where was our damn reconnaissance? All of their heads should be laying on Putin’s desk, hacked off at the base... Of course, this is a tactical defeat. I hope it will be very sobering.”
On Monday’s broadcast of The Evening With Vladimir Solovyov, filmmaker Karen Shakhnazarov likewise dispensed a large dose of brutal honesty. “I urge everyone not to panic in the face of a defeat we’ve suffered in the Kharkiv region, and we have to acknowledge it,” he said. “A defeat has some meaning when you acknowledge it and draw new conclusions. And if you don’t acknowledge it, all you get is another defeat, perhaps even more devastating. This is a very difficult situation and we have to recognize that we’re battling a very powerful adversary.”
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Brian Berletic said it best (and he’s man enough to admit he was wrong on certain points): this is the time in the chess match wherein the competitors give up their best pieces in service to overall victory. Russia was barely in the area which Biden recently occupied. Don’t listen to the BS. Russia will win in the end, and there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth then it turns out that the Biden/Zelensky nonsense was a Pyrich (sp?) victory. We may not re-gain the Senate, sadly, but we will win in the end.
This is sad for Russia.
If Putin had been less egotistical and kept the Russian army just fighting Islamic state, and using salami tactics on Ukraine, all would have worked for Russia.
This is exactly like the 1850s crimean war — Russia’s “best enemies” are to the south-east and interference in the Islamic world. They lose badly when they face off against the west.
Russian tactics since 2000 should have been to build economically, become less corrupt, use that money to diversify its economy, give a better quality of life to its people (and not let it all go to super-yachts for the oligarchy) and use its military decisively to build up power - so Syria, etc. and also slice Ukraine slice by slice.
the problem is corruption - and it starts at the top. Putin and his “elites” have not “skimmed off” profits at the top, they have grabbed it all.
Russians are smart - if given an opportunity. But that was wasted.
Russia can rebuild - it needs to give up its imperialist mindset and focus on soft power.
LOL, it’s not that Russia is a loser suckfest, it’s the boogieman infiltrating!!!
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