This is going to be used by Putin as an escalation. The majority of the country hates the West because of our support for Yelstin and transferring their wealth to Oligarchs. To Russians, democracy means cronyism, and the US betrayed them. So when they’re shown this, a call for regime change, after Biden has destroyed their economy, they’re going to lurch harder into Putin’s nationalistic rhetoric. This comes at a moment the Russian Army has begun signaling a “new phase” of the war, aka retreat.
I’ve read about three books and watched ten documentaries in the past month and I think I know more about Russian politics than this guy.
I’ve read about three books and watched ten documentaries in the past month and I think I know more about Russian politics than this guy.
Never forget: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/01/robert-gates-thinks-joe-biden-hasnt-stopped-being-wrong-40-years/356785/
The Atlantic
Robert Gates Thinks Joe Biden Hasn't Stopped Being Wrong for 40 Years
"I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades,” former Defense Secretary Robert Gates says of Vice President Joe Biden in his new book coming out later this month.
I heard an explanation today that the Russians don’t have non commissioned officers. So if you have an American unit with conscripts, you’ll have a trained Sargent directing the orders. But in Ukraine , they’re sending out squads of conscripts and it’s obviously not going well so generals have to keep going to the front lines to direct the clueless soldiers
“If I say everything is the opposite of the news one day I’ll be right and then will repeat how right I am since no one will ever call me out on all the times I was wrong since no one takes me seriously.” - half my feed
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