Just ensure the Kremlin doesn't hack your findings.I'll dig around to try and find Ukraine's next targets. Give me 15 minutes.
Just ensure the Kremlin doesn't hack your findings.I'll dig around to try and find Ukraine's next targets. Give me 15 minutes.
I would imagine Ukraine's list of targets is something of a moveable feast, with the list being updated almost in real time. Priorities might change according to all sorts of things, not least the current Russian offensive, intelligence updates and so on.Just ensure the Kremlin doesn't hack your findings.
I wonder too how much of the Ukrainian targeting is assisted and informed by it’s western allies.Absolutely. If I'm not watching Poirot with Mrs R, this is my favourite detective thread .
It's interesting to try to be in the minds of the Ukrainian group that decides these targets. They must have hundreds of potential targets under analysis for priority and feasibility.
I wonder how much of it comes top down from Budanov, and whether they have specialized analysis teams: refineries, ports, air defense systems, Black Sea...
A far more desirable job than being at the front line.
I wonder too how much of the Ukrainian targeting is assisted and informed by it’s western allies.
This bloke is excellent.Great stuff . Some things are rarely secret for long nowadays.
I started to watch this when the deputy Defence Minister Ivanov was accused of taking bribes. It was food for thought at the time.
But now that Shoigu has been moved, Konstantin Samoilov's thinking resonates louder.
He reminds us of Churchill's quote:
'Kremlin political intrigues are comparable to a bulldog fight under a rug. An outsider only hears the growling, and when he sees the bones fly out from beneath it is obvious who won.”
I started to watch this when the deputy Defence Minister Ivanov was accused of taking bribes. It was food for thought at the time.
But now that Shoigu has been moved, Konstantin Samoilov's thinking resonates louder.
He reminds us of Churchill's quote:
'Kremlin political intrigues are comparable to a bulldog fight under a rug. An outsider only hears the growling, and when he sees the bones fly out from beneath it is obvious who won.”
I can't say I have any idea of the proportion who believe Putin's mantra; it could be none, a handful, most of them or all of them. Very, very little information gets out of the Kremlin, and when it does, can you trust it anyway? All we can do is take a good look at whichever bulldog emerges from under the rug.Very interesting.
Near the end he says "the elites couldn't care less about Ukraine" , presumably he meant the outcome of the invasion.
I wonder how many of the elites (military and business) truly believe in Putin's mantra of restoring mother Russia's power by expanding their borders.
Maybe only the ones that'll directly benefit from getting their hands on the mineral wealth in the east
When you put it like that...yes indeedI can't say I have any idea of the proportion who believe Putin's mantra; it could be none, a handful, most of them or all of them. Very, very little information gets out of the Kremlin, and when it does, can you trust it anyway? All we can do is take a good look at whichever bulldog emerges from under the rug.
I wouldn't discount anything though. It is quite possible that most of them actually believe that NATO is gearing up to attack Russia. If you take the view that they will judge other people by their own low standards, then in their world, everyone else is a gangster and a murderer.
What a deeply and profoundly strange, alien place it is.
I think the Russians have fallen into a trap set up by the Americans and nato
I'm struggling with this, makes me a bit fearful and sad reading it.
It is a real incursion, but not a huge gain at the moment. It is true that Ukraine will be stretched across the front line to defend it.
I'm struggling with this, makes me a bit fearful and sad reading it.
I've had this in the back of my mind too, hoping this ie exactly what's happening. A little false hope before blowing the shit out of them.I think the Russians have fallen into a trap set up by the Americans and nato
The weapons they need are coming or already there and I expect them to start pushing the Russians back
I truly hope you are right. Chatting to my Mum's Ukraine neighbours they said all they can do is hope and believe eventually Ukraine will win out even if it takes ten years. Hope it's a lot sooner than that.It is a real incursion, but not a huge gain at the moment. It is true that Ukraine will be stretched across the front line to defend it.
As @Ethelwulf says below, there is at least a possibility of it being a partial trap. Ukraine have, in the past, been good at small retreats, sucking in more Russian troops and then destroying them.
We'll know in a few days if Ukraine retreated out of total necessity or whether it can be turned to an advantage...