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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Every demonrat posting here is chomping at the bit to experience what you said there.
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...
It is champimg at the bit, and I never look at keywords. I just glanced at the keywords here....whatever
Gorbachev withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989, 10 or 11 years before Putin took power.
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.
Why is he desperate? Don't you fire missiles into enemy territory in a war?
Thanks
No dennis, it really isn't.
Champing -— yes
🙏
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
Murdoch is all in globalists on this
All News Corp orgs
You are delusional
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
That’s scary and a good example of unintended consequences on a tragic scale.
Thanks.
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
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
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.
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.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.