Dramatic Moves, Someone To Hang
Recep Tayyip Erdogan himself presided over the latest round of peace talks between Ukraine and Russia in Istanbul on Tuesday. Erdogan the levelheaded peacekeeper, apparently.
"[I expect] good news," he said, speaking from a podium positioned at the head of a long table where delegates were seated. "We are at a time when concrete results are required," Erdogan added. "An immediate ceasefire is in everyone’s interest."
By most indications, the two sides remained far apart on key issues, and Ru
“If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
? Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“If you only hear what you want to hear, and you only believe what you want to believe; your ass is grass on the battlefield”. Where karate or whatever discipline this Muddy Butcher portends to ascribe to, gets you nowhere. No belt for you, coward.
-TB, School of Hard Knocks -1991
Along these lines, I’m wondering how to interpret the disappearance and reappearance of Defense Minister Shoigu. I had assumed his disappearance indicated Putin had fired him or worse. So does his reappearance indicate that the military has, in effect, taken control of the war, reinstated Shoigu, and curtailed Putin’s power until the mess can be sorted out (i.e. Putin becomes the military’s scapegoat)? Or does it indicate more the reverse, that to serve as Putin’s “somebody to hang”, it would be more convincing if Shoigu was still in his post for now? Putin and the military leadership both desperately need someone to blame.
Where’s Tom Clancy when you need him? We need a 300 page novel explaining all this, stat! I’ll bet the novel would be far more believable than the actual reality of this insane war.
Putin likes to make ‘losers’ disappear. Like Hitler, he probably blames his generals for the mess in the Ukraine. Fortunately for Putin, the Ukrainians are taking care of his stupid generals for him, having killed five generals and a meddlesome colonel already.
World On Fire graphic is very nuanced commentary on supply chains and damage being done to the World’s economy by the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine! Good one. 😉
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