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"Also stands ready to hit a pedestrian bridge, and a cosmetics company that was mean to it on Twitter in retaliation"

You are letting your biases to run ahead of you and it shows. An object near the pedestrian bridge was hit, not the pedestrian bridge itself. Some say it was Ukrainian AA rocket falling back onto the city.

Instead of waiting for better analysis, you could not stop yourself to write that BS without checking first, because it fitted your "Russia incompetent" narrative. It could be that you are emotional on this issue, and allowed your emotions to take control over your head. Or it could be something else.

I have issues with the 5D guys which does not mean you are clean either.

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A buddy on Twitter just alerted me that I may have fallen for a fake there.

Thanks for the correction but watch your tone. You are a guest here. Act as you would inside my house.

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Once you understand that Putin and his entire government are globalist puppets working for the same global cabal as almost every single Western government, then everything that Putin does makes perfect sense.

Putin's WEF masters needed him to invade Ukraine to provide the pretext for driving energy prices through the roof in Europe (particularly) and the US, to wreak the utter destruction of industries, economies and living standards necessary to have the masses submit to the Great Reset.

Putin's WEF bosses needed the invasion -and they need the war to continue ad infinitum - tens of billions of corruption payment slipping nicely into the pockets of the Ukraine oligarchs and the Ukraine political class - with the rest being put into Western politicians' offshore bank accounts.

But Putin's bosses don't want any major Russian successes: they need Ukrainian successes, to head off growing popular resentment among Europeans of the (totally deliberate) destruction of their economies, industries and living standards by their own governments.

And Putin's WEF bosses most certainly do not want Russia penetrating further into their money-laundering centre which is Ukraine.

So - Putin does his mobilisation, because he and the WEF are worried that otherwise, patriotic forces in Russia might finally figure out who Putin & Co. are working for.

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That is certainly one explanation. Not the one I’m hoping for, but what does that matter.

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Viktor Suvorov? You mean Soviet GRU defector turned MI-6 agent, Viktor Rezun (Suvorov is his pen name), that was bashing USSR in his books? Probably not, I think you meant Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov, greatest military commander of the XVIII century that was never defeated in battle and was both feared and respected by the Europeans. Precision in history matters.

As for the article, sarcasm is fine by me as long as it is deserved, and it is deserved in this instance. The reason we see so much incompetence on the Russian side, it is not that suddenly their equivalent of the Joint Chiefs of Staff forgot all the military science and how a successful special operation should be executed. The main reason is political why the operation was started in a first place. The main purpose of the conflict was to up the ante in the ongoing bargaining with the West in the future phase of the world system that we are moving towards now. The goal wasn't to win in Ukraine and to achieve stated goals such as denazification, demilitarization and so on.

Here is another point for sarcasm. It took Russians 8 months to figure out they need a central command for the SMO and that it can not be directed by a general, Sergey Shoygu, that prior to being appointed to Minister of Defence post didn't spend a single day in the army.

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Thanks, I meant Alexander.

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I thoroughly disagree with your assessment. In a sporting way, of course. I think the scope of the retaliation and the resumed accumulation of forces on the borders makes it pretty clear Russia intends on making decisive moves in a few weeks. I don’t know how the AFU stops it.

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It will be interesting to observe if the strikes on power distribution are sustained or if they fizzle out after a couple of days like after Kupyansk-Izyum.

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Right, the retaliatory strikes seem to have left Lvov in the dark.

Given that Russia now controls other land and sea routes to Crimea, the importance of the bridge is more symbolical than logistical.

The symbolic aspect cannot be underestimated. The 18km bridge was a prestigious project. The not-terror attack has shifted public opinion in Russia. Russians now see Ukraine as a terrorist organization.

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It's not about access to Crimea, it's about access to Kherson and Zaporozhye.

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>And please no crying about this being any sort of a “terrorist” attack. It’s a land war and Russian and Ukrainian ground armies both run on railways.

My sentiments exactly. I’m not happy the railway was bombed but I mean, it’s a war ffs...Even though Russia won’t call it a war. In wars things get blown up, especially vital strategic infrastructure.

I’m not war expert here, just stating the obvious lol

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I'm sorry for the 3 civilians killed, that's a big tragedy. If someone wants to make an argument that this makes it a war crime then that's fine, but war crime != terrorism.

This might be terrorism if UA and RU weren't fighting land battles and if supply throughoput didn't matter (as was the case when NATO was bombing Yugoslavia), but they are, and it does.

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Thanks for the honest take on the bridge damage. Its a nasty blow and complicates the logistics. Are there facilities to shift to naval transport?

I wonder if the Kremlin may have bought into they would be "seen as liberators" mindset like the Bushies talked themselves into before Iraq 2. The campaign has seemed almost half-hearted to this point. We can speculate why all day but Surovkin is definitely setting a different tone. The total lack of 5D bs is so refreshing. If the missiles are hitting anything like substations or transmission lines, these are things that take months to replace under the best conditions. It'll take months, if ever, to restore rail traffic to the Crimean bridge.

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"I wonder if the Kremlin may have bought into they would be "seen as liberators" mindset like the Bushies talked themselves into before Iraq 2. The campaign has seemed almost half-hearted to this point."

Yes, I think there are many indications especially from the the first 3 days that they thought "we're gonna be greeted with flowers" was a real possibility.

"Are there facilities to shift to naval transport?"

The pre-bridge ferry terminals and a dozen landing ships they've used before to get hardware to Berdyansk. You'll probably recall one of them (Saratov) catching fire...

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Russia 10 Nato 0

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