Winning on the battlefield, Vladimir Putin now says that essentially Russia will conquer the entire country of Ukraine. From Pepe Escobar at strategic-culture.org:
It’s fascinating to see how Russian war correspondents are now playing a role similar to the former political commissars in the USSR.
President Putin’s meeting with a group of Russian war correspondents and Telegram bloggers – including Filatov, Poddubny, Pegov from War Gonzo, Podolyaka, Gazdiev from RT – was an extraordinary exercise in freedom of the press.
There were among them seriously independent journalists who can be very critical of the way the Kremlin and the Ministry of Defense (MoD) are conducting what can be alternatively defined as a Special Military Operation (SMO); a counter-terror operation (CTO); or an “almost war” (according to some influential business circles in Moscow).
It’s fascinating to see how these patriotic/independent journalists are now playing a role similar to the former political commissars in the USSR, all of them, in their own way, deeply committed to guiding Russian society towards draining the swamp, slowly but surely.
It’s clear Putin not only understands their role but sometimes, “shock to the system-style”, the system he presides actually implements the journalists’ suggestions. As a foreign correspondent working all over the world for nearly 40 years now, I have been quite impressed by the way Russian journalists may enjoy a degree of freedom unimaginable in most latitudes of the collective West.
Been watching the warporn from the Greek 24-7 war page for awhile.
It is fun to watch the Bolshevik enemedia half an hour of smoke and mirrors lies to laugh at their fake stories of the 51st CPUSA state the ‘Kraine.