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Posted on 11/19/2022 2:11:32 PM PST by dennisw
Independent political analyst Dmitry Oreshkin attributed Putin’s silence to the fact he has built a political system akin to that of the Soviet Union, in which a leader — or “vozhd” in Russian, a term used to describe Josef Stalin — by definition is incapable of making mistakes.
“Putin and Putin’s system … is built in a way that all defeats are blamed on someone else: enemies, traitors, a stab in the back, global Russophobia — anything, really,” Oreshkin said. “So if he lost somewhere, first, it’s untrue, and second — it wasn’t him.”
When Russia’s top military brass announced in a televised appearance that they were pulling troops out of the key city of Kherson in southern Ukraine, one man missing from the room was President Vladimir Putin.
As Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Gen. Sergei Surovikin, Russia’s chief commander in Ukraine, stiffly recited the reasons for the retreat in front of the cameras on Nov. 9, Putin was touring a neurological hospital in Moscow, watching a doctor perform brain surgery.
Later that day, Putin spoke at another event but made no mention of the pullout from Kherson — arguably Russia’s most humiliating withdrawal in Ukraine. In the days that followed, he hasn’t publicly commented on the topic.
Putin’s silence comes as Russia faces mounting setbacks in nearly nine months of fighting. The Russian leader appears to have delegated the delivery of bad news to others — a tactic he used during the coronavirus pandemic.
Putin, who was once rumored to personally supervise the military campaign in Ukraine and give battlefield orders to generals, appeared this week to be focused on everything but the war.
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Independent political analyst Dmitry Oreshkin==
Meaning a western stooge on a payroll))).. C’mon denis))).
Delusional, fake, Tsar Putin dodges all responsibility for his vainglorious war on Ukraine.
Sending young Russian men to their deaths? Not his problem, and he doesn’t care anyways. So much for “The Great Russian People”..... Warmonger Putin cannot croak too soon.
Gin up a more clever comment.
It’s because there are a million Russian Spetnatz troops slowly crawling up to the front lines. They will remain quiet until the whistle blows and they will all stand up at once, and then March through Ukraine to the Polish border. Then Ukraine will become the newest province of Russia.
Then there will be no NATO troops on Russia’s borders.
Oh. Wait. Never mind.
(Sarcasm)
and now he wants another conscription after New Years
that means this could be the last Christmas for a lot of young Russian men, before the Tsar sends them to their deaths
and for what?
Yes, because his replacement will ride a Skittle pooping unicorn.
The next might very well be worse.
I'm sure that the monthly checks from the CIA and MI-6 make a comfortable living for Dmitry...
the next could be better, too
....Baskets of deplorables, MAGA followers, Trumpists, insurrectionists, white supremacists, rednecks, GOP voters.
My opinion is the fake Tsar spends most of his time in his lavish Sochi compound, brooding and getting Dr Feelgood ejections and treatments to (hopefully) ward off the inevitable. Which Grim Reaper will be sweeping Vlad up within 6 months.
“Western stooge”?
You sound like a Soviet apparatchik or Chicom.
Oh… so like we have in the US now with Joe Biden.
The Interweb is full of independent political analysts pontificating.
That's the argument that never made sense from the moment it was first made. If the land they're taking truly is part of Russia, then they're actually bringing the borders of NATO even closer to Russia by annexing that land.
“Yes, because his replacement will ride a Skittle pooping unicorn.....The next might very well be worse.___________”
Vlad’s replacement can be a hardliner or moderate. They will all wash their hands of Vlad’s dumbass war. Remember — The business of Russia is business. This war does nothing positive for Russia, the oligarchs and the Kremlin honchos
The business of Russia is selling hydrocarbons to all of Europe. Diseased, cancerous, Vlad ruined this best deal ever. No one in Russia needs him or likes him. So Vlad is gone by March, one way or another.
The only people who like Vlad are some nuts here at Free Republic. He is their anti-gay, anti-globohomo spirit animal. Their comforting teddy bear
View all things through the prism of civilization’s lifeblood — oil.
The Caspian oil source in total is fully 1/2 of Russia’s daily production. It transports north along the Volga river, and on it in barges, but mostly high tech pipelines alongside. There is a river choke point. It is the city of Volgograd.
It is less than 100 miles from the eastern border of the Donbas.
There was never any way NATO could be allowed that close to the flow that will eventually define Russia as dominant. They have more surface area. Their flow will run out last.
View all things through the prism of oil.
If Soros were winning, the propaganda would not be necessary.
“If the land they’re taking truly is part of Russia, then they’re actually bringing the borders of NATO even closer to Russia by annexing that land.”
Stop making sense.
L
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