As Europe gears up for war with Russia, Russia’s trepidation level goes up commensurately. From Moon of Alabama at moonofalabama.org:
Yesterday the President of the Russian Federation took part in an extended board meeting of the Ministry of Defense.
This is a yearly event meant to recap the developments in the military sphere over last year and to give a high level outlook of the future. This goes from strategic overview to details of operations. It touches on weapon supplies, technical development, medical, social and housing issues of the military. The addressee is mainly the Russian military but also the national and international public.
President Vladimir Putin spoke first, followed by a detailed presentation by Defense Minister Andrey Belousov followed by another Putin talk. Both Putin parts are available in English at the Kremlin site. Belousov’s presentation is only available in the Russian language transcript of the event. Karlof1 has put up an English machine translation of all parts at his website. There is also a video of the event available with English live translation.
The whole thing is lengthy.
The most important point, in my opinion, of Putin and Belausov said is about the potentially upcoming conflict with NATO. Russia feels threatened!
