The Russians are very good at misdirection and subterfuge, and Team Zalensky isn’t smart enough to figure it out. From Declan Hayes at strategic-culture.org:
Although the fate of Napoleon’s La Grande Armée’s Russian adventure is famously depicted by Minard’s graph, the key to their destruction lies in the almost reckless bravery of Wittgenstein’s army against superior French forces at St Petersburg, coupled with the implementation of Barclay de Tolly’s 1810 death by a thousand cuts strategy of military deception. We are seeing that same Russian maskirovka combination achieve those same results today in Ukraine, where the Wagner group and the Chechens fought as ferociously as Wittgenstein’s army and their enemies dutifully fell into the meat-grinding traps the Russian High Command had set for them on their road to Crimea. The Russians have taken Ukraine’s best shot and now it is their turn to land a hammer blow.
That is in the real world, the adult world. In the virtual world, Clown Prince Zelensky can be seen here ranting that his cronies need to be gifted billions more of dollars from NATO to overthrow Putin who, Zelensky assured us while the Wagner Group’s deceptive kabuki played out in Rostov-on-Don, was cowering in some Muscovite air raid shelter or other, too scared to face the light of day and too fearful of the fate awaiting him at the hands of the Wagner Group’s Prester Johns.
Not an effing chance!
I love rhetorical!