One of these interesting clips that may portend things. Dimitry Borisenko is a Russian blogger and journalist who has been supportive of the war against Ukraine since its beginning. However, he and several others seem to have been pushed somewhat over the edge by this latest series of Ukrainian strategic strikes against the infrastructure around Moscow using domestically produced long range drones, the utter failure of the Russian winter and spring offensives, and Ukraine's new operational level strategy of attacking Russian logistics lines of support.
He is careful in this dialogue not to focus blame Putin directly, but to focus his ire on the structure around him. Still, criticism like this would never have been articulated even a year ago.
Putin has become the modern example of the Chinese proverb, "when one rides a tiger, it is difficult to dismount." On the current trajectory, I have no idea how he ends this and remains in power. The Ukrainians have quietly decided that Trump can go to hell. Most of Europe agrees with that sentiment and is largely filling the gap in American supplied weaponry and logistics. More importantly, Ukrainian production, particularly of drones, has gone up dramatically. For instance, they are currently expending 10,000 direct attack drones a day that are largely responsible for the 30 - 35,000 Russian casualties that are occurring monthly at a higher exchange rate against Ukrainian losses at any point in the war. No nation, and certainly no regime, can sustain those sorts of casualties indefinitely. The parallels to 1917 when Tsar Nicholas was caught in a similar military debacle are ever more striking.
He is careful in this dialogue not to focus blame Putin directly, but to focus his ire on the structure around him. Still, criticism like this would never have been articulated even a year ago.
Putin has become the modern example of the Chinese proverb, "when one rides a tiger, it is difficult to dismount." On the current trajectory, I have no idea how he ends this and remains in power. The Ukrainians have quietly decided that Trump can go to hell. Most of Europe agrees with that sentiment and is largely filling the gap in American supplied weaponry and logistics. More importantly, Ukrainian production, particularly of drones, has gone up dramatically. For instance, they are currently expending 10,000 direct attack drones a day that are largely responsible for the 30 - 35,000 Russian casualties that are occurring monthly at a higher exchange rate against Ukrainian losses at any point in the war. No nation, and certainly no regime, can sustain those sorts of casualties indefinitely. The parallels to 1917 when Tsar Nicholas was caught in a similar military debacle are ever more striking.
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