Posted on 03/17/2022 5:49:44 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
He’s not. Putin’s last speech was scary
Is this Rank the same basic idea as Radar O’Riely being Test Promoted to a Corporal-Captain ?
LOL. Was a retired Natl. Guard deputy commander shot from an AAA yet?:))) The fog of war is thinning, time to tone down with all the BS.
I take very, very little seriously coming out of the media. ANY of it, including Faux Spews. Virtually all media lost all credibility throughout the 5+ years of banging the Drumpf-Russia drums and the almost universal, constant spew of the Wuhan Flu government/corporate propaganda.
The only source listed here is a Washington military “think tank”. Weak.
Not defending Putin. Merely trying to view the world from his shoes to understand the world in a cloud of lies from the mediots.
It’s pretty clear that the corruption and incompetence have turned the Russian military into a world-wide joke.
That has got to be a bitter pill to swallow, being militarily humiliated on the world stage.
...according to reports...reportedly...it was reported... Inside Edition reported...and on and on.
Jeez.
On the first point: Art of the Deal.
When you’re in a position of negotiating from a strong position, your opening offer must be beyond the achievable when commencing negotiations. Since Ukraine had assurances it’d be protected after hiving up the Soviet nukes left behind, it can throw the kitchen sink at “you promised this, so do it.” Zelenskyy knows a NATO enforced NFZ is untenable, but giving Ukraine and Poland the capability to defend their own airspaces from the ground is a fairly easy workaround.
When negotiating from a weaker position, moral high ground can be won through articulating modest red lines that the other side has no moral argument against, while making easy concessions.
So it doesn’t matter what the press says either way. Just use your brains.
Ukraine’s consistent message to Russia - it must honour the spirit as well as the letter of all its past agreements to recognise Ukraine as an independent state (ie it can join regional alliances and EU memberships if it so chooses, because it has the natural and moral right).
Russia explicitly committed to not invade Ukraine in return for the nukes, and there were no caveats or conditions, therefore Rusdia is morally obliged to end its military occupation.
On the other side, Putin’s insistence on denazification and blocking NATO membership are demands Ukraine could reject as disingenuous and against its national interest, but morally it can’t object to the ideas of buffer zones and anti Nazism... so it hasn’t said no to either.
Putin on the other hand has torn up the right of self determination and has openly said Ukraine is not an independent country, despite him saying the opposite not too long ago. He’s using nazis to fight nazis.
Thus, it is Putin who is negotiating in bad faith, Putin rejecting the easy compromises, and Putin who has lost the moral high ground.
Or Catch 22’s Major Major.....
Follow the money.
Deep State propaganda is getting kinda obvious....
“On the first point: Art of the Deal.”
I read it long before Trump ever ran for office.
“Thus, it is Putin who is negotiating in bad faith, Putin rejecting the easy compromises, and Putin who has lost the moral high ground.”
Exactly.
Not sure if much of this is true, but some of it seems possible. Putin miscalculated- so there’s going to be pushback against him, though not like we see in the West. If some of his trusted people are questioning the wisdom of continuing the war, his paranoia will only grow. Russian politics are a mystery to me- I try to remember that when reading or listening to various reports- on both sides.
There’s a lot at stake here for Russia, the pressures from multiple and some conflicting sources is enormous.
strangely enough it goes
Major general to Lieutenant general to Colonel general
That is the only way to make sense in this fiasco. our "leaders" are rushing headlong into WW3 without regard from the consequences (as if they won't suffer from them).
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