NEXT STAGE – THE GENERAL STAFF’S TARGETS AFTER PUTIN’S FEINT, by John Helmer

There has been constant tension between Putin and the military about conduct of the war in Ukraine. From John Helmer at johnhelmer.net.com:

The Russian military bloggers haven’t been as quick as the Kiev regime and NATO allies to dismiss President Vladimir Putin’s peace terms speech to the Foreign Ministry as propaganda. But they did.

According to Boris Rozhin, the editor-in-chief of the Colonel Cassad military blog, Putin’s speech on Friday morning, June 14,  “was not announced in advance”. The Foreign Ministry audience who assembled “learned about it half an hour in advance, no more.” There is telltale vagueness in the  Kremlin communiqué introducing “a meeting with the senior officials of the Russian Foreign Ministry.”  

In practical terms, Moscow’s leading independent military analyst concluded, the speech was a tactical feint and a strategic deception.

“[Putin’s terms] will obviously not be accepted by the West and their Ukrainian puppets,” wrote  Rozhin.  “Against the background of the ‘world summit’ [the Burgenstock, Switzerland, meeting on June 15-16] this will indicate that in fact the West is prolonging the war, so these statements [of Putin] are another torpedo in the summit. Russia is thus showing the countries of the Global South that it has offered a world that will be rejected by those who are broadcasting about ‘peaceful summits’…The war will continue. The goals of the SVO [Special Military Operation] will be achieved by military means.”

The distinction in the last line is between Kremlin political strategy and General Staff military strategy – this is a distinction which published Russian analyses of the president’s speech and the state propaganda organs avoid identifying. The semi-official Vzglyad quoted Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, as characterizing the reaction from the West as “of an unconstructive nature”.  No Russian official will say as little as this for the record.

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One response to “NEXT STAGE – THE GENERAL STAFF’S TARGETS AFTER PUTIN’S FEINT, by John Helmer

  1. Sun von Rommel

    Vlad is chillin’ in NORK with homie Lil’ Rocketman” Kim AKA China’s junkyard dog in an open top limousine!

    Leaders that are liked don’t need anti-scaling fences and a Beast limousine with Biteme Brandon SS guards as the first dog takes a bite out of them.

    Regarding Cuba Missile Crisis Redux: The immaculate Chicago jesus messiah (the ONE!) will walk 90 miles on the water after feeding the 5000 and kick Ivan right out of there.

    Hopefully their feints and revealed plans are fake and not the real targets.

    What happens when Keev, chicken Keev, is surrounded on all sides and in the dark?

    Breaking from Conan:

    Throne Of Fire

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