And yet, the Russians are still winning.
Putin is winning like Charlie Sheen.
Bingo!
Makes you wonder what if a bunch of Generals had been fired, who failed miserably over the last 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan plus the debacle in the Afghanistan withdrawal
“”””And yet, the Russians are still winning.””””
As someone who assumed the massive and modernized Russian military would roll over Ukraine and absorb it in almost no time, I sure didn’t expect to see defensive statements like that one years after the invasion was launched.
150,000 dead Russians in just 2 years, while Russia slowly goes broke, is “winning”?
Keep “winning”, then! LOL
We love seeing Russia weaker!!
This fits with the old Russian tradition that the people at the top are lied to and accept it as long as things are going reasonably well. When things go wrong, getting the truth permits an easier change in leadership and policies. Corruption can always be claimed and proven because the Russian system runs on corruption.
In addition to a purge of the military leadership, Putin is now publicly talking both nuclear escalation and ceasefire with Ukraine and the West, meaning that he blusters a choice between a nightmare and a deal. These are not the moves of a player with a winning hand.
As the new Minister of Defense Belousov has no doubt told Putin, Russia might win in Ukraine, but she cannot win or even continue the war at a bearable cost. That means that it is time for a purge and lining up people to blame. With that underway, Putin will have greater domestic political freedom to make concessions.
Wouldn’t it be great if the US arrested all the corrupted officials we have? …but then we wouldn’t have a “ President” or much of Congress left.