At least PCR came around and acknowledged what is really going on. Few ever do. I was also hoping that Putin was fighting our Western overlords and was suckered into believing that Putin was playing 4d chess by the hope. Alas I was deluded.
Listened to Martyanov once or twice to quickly realize this guy was a shill. Perhaps a truly believing in the Russian military superiority shill, but nonetheless. Stopped reading Sacker back in 2014 when he became a big backer of Putin's Conniving Plan, known in Russian as Хитрый План Путина or ХПП, when 100s of pro-Kremlin propagandists started to push the narrative that Putin not taking advantage of the situation that emerged in early 2014, when a bigger half of Ukraine was for taking by simply not recognizing the coup, because of people's resistance to the nationalist Maidan in Kiev, was because he wanted "the whole Ukraine to be friends with Russia". How events developed from there on is well known - Russia and Ukraine are big friends now, yeah, right... Orlov I missed somehow. I guess from a get go he wasn't someone I could trust.
But PCR is a different matter. He always maintained balance and the needed distance in assessment of Russia. I agree with his view that you presented in current article about how running this war for months works against Russia and in favor of Ukraine/NATO, as well as his other piece where he blames Putin for a policy of constant give-ins, retreats and questionable deals that he conducted for twenty plus years starting with the sinking of submarine Kursk in 2000 when he didn't dare to recognize that american submarine was directly involved in this, either accident or the action of intent. Same story repeated under Putin with Russian military flagship of the Black Sea fleet cruiser Moskva in 2022. Russian generals preferred to say that ship was damaged because of the fire that started because of smoking in no-smoking area and then, to avoid further investigation into the incident, they decided to sink the ship on the way to Sebastopol. Meanwhile the truth appears to be that the largest Russian ship on the Black Sea was sunk due to joint attack by NATO and Ukrainian forces. Putin's policy of constant concessions in economy, geopolitics and in military was constantly wetting appetite of the aggressor and this has led us to the situation we see today in Ukraine with a great potential to bring us to a hot phase of WWIII and to the nuclear Armageddon.
I was not a fan of PCR initially but as events developed it turned out he was right almost all the way. Have you bothered to read what he was actually writing – its all there on his website, and I’ve just been reviewing what he was writing in March. Already then (and long before) he was consistently critical of Putin and the whole Russian leadership on both their conduct of the war and Russia’s economic response. Even then he was saying that Russia’s go slow approach and anxiety to negotiate would result in disaster and possibly an escalation to nuclear war. Long ago he was massively critical of Russia’s response in 1914 …… oh, what the hell, do I have to spell it all out for you? Go back and read what he actually was saying before you jump in and start hammering him on no basis whatsoever, other than your assumption that because he is now saying the right thing that he must therefore have been mistaken in the beginning. Let’s face it no one probably got everything absolutely right in every detail but he seems to be one of the very few that was getting the broad picture and he seems to have been doing it for a long time. And I’m speaking as someone who was skeptical of him – but can now see that overall in big picture terms he was more right than almost anyone else. Sure if one goes through his stuff with a fine tooth comb one might find some details that he was mistaken on but he has shown himself very ready to correct when he was wrong. Come on, you’re a good analyst, and he is too, we don’t need this kind of pettiness and attempted point scoring: It’s childish!
I think it is NATO and the US and the UK and EU who have forced Russia's hand.
And I don't like Russia or China or the West. As a matter of fact, I now despise the West, the UN and those in the UN including NATO and the US and the UK and EU who are driving the War using Zelenskyy the puppet and Ukraine as their proxy.
NATO and the US and the UK and EU provoked Russia. They therefore started it IMO.
I know Faker is not as good as he use to be in mid lane but he's still good enough to carry T1 to the Summoner's Cup.
At least PCR came around and acknowledged what is really going on. Few ever do. I was also hoping that Putin was fighting our Western overlords and was suckered into believing that Putin was playing 4d chess by the hope. Alas I was deluded.
Listened to Martyanov once or twice to quickly realize this guy was a shill. Perhaps a truly believing in the Russian military superiority shill, but nonetheless. Stopped reading Sacker back in 2014 when he became a big backer of Putin's Conniving Plan, known in Russian as Хитрый План Путина or ХПП, when 100s of pro-Kremlin propagandists started to push the narrative that Putin not taking advantage of the situation that emerged in early 2014, when a bigger half of Ukraine was for taking by simply not recognizing the coup, because of people's resistance to the nationalist Maidan in Kiev, was because he wanted "the whole Ukraine to be friends with Russia". How events developed from there on is well known - Russia and Ukraine are big friends now, yeah, right... Orlov I missed somehow. I guess from a get go he wasn't someone I could trust.
But PCR is a different matter. He always maintained balance and the needed distance in assessment of Russia. I agree with his view that you presented in current article about how running this war for months works against Russia and in favor of Ukraine/NATO, as well as his other piece where he blames Putin for a policy of constant give-ins, retreats and questionable deals that he conducted for twenty plus years starting with the sinking of submarine Kursk in 2000 when he didn't dare to recognize that american submarine was directly involved in this, either accident or the action of intent. Same story repeated under Putin with Russian military flagship of the Black Sea fleet cruiser Moskva in 2022. Russian generals preferred to say that ship was damaged because of the fire that started because of smoking in no-smoking area and then, to avoid further investigation into the incident, they decided to sink the ship on the way to Sebastopol. Meanwhile the truth appears to be that the largest Russian ship on the Black Sea was sunk due to joint attack by NATO and Ukrainian forces. Putin's policy of constant concessions in economy, geopolitics and in military was constantly wetting appetite of the aggressor and this has led us to the situation we see today in Ukraine with a great potential to bring us to a hot phase of WWIII and to the nuclear Armageddon.
I was not a fan of PCR initially but as events developed it turned out he was right almost all the way. Have you bothered to read what he was actually writing – its all there on his website, and I’ve just been reviewing what he was writing in March. Already then (and long before) he was consistently critical of Putin and the whole Russian leadership on both their conduct of the war and Russia’s economic response. Even then he was saying that Russia’s go slow approach and anxiety to negotiate would result in disaster and possibly an escalation to nuclear war. Long ago he was massively critical of Russia’s response in 1914 …… oh, what the hell, do I have to spell it all out for you? Go back and read what he actually was saying before you jump in and start hammering him on no basis whatsoever, other than your assumption that because he is now saying the right thing that he must therefore have been mistaken in the beginning. Let’s face it no one probably got everything absolutely right in every detail but he seems to be one of the very few that was getting the broad picture and he seems to have been doing it for a long time. And I’m speaking as someone who was skeptical of him – but can now see that overall in big picture terms he was more right than almost anyone else. Sure if one goes through his stuff with a fine tooth comb one might find some details that he was mistaken on but he has shown himself very ready to correct when he was wrong. Come on, you’re a good analyst, and he is too, we don’t need this kind of pettiness and attempted point scoring: It’s childish!
he's just trolling
So, you think its Russia's fault?
I think it is NATO and the US and the UK and EU who have forced Russia's hand.
And I don't like Russia or China or the West. As a matter of fact, I now despise the West, the UN and those in the UN including NATO and the US and the UK and EU who are driving the War using Zelenskyy the puppet and Ukraine as their proxy.
NATO and the US and the UK and EU provoked Russia. They therefore started it IMO.