Russian leadership's stupidity is now world class

03 July 2026

Is Putin doing his best . . .

. . . to undermine the Russian Federation's survival?

Al Jazeera's Federica Marsi wrote that:

Ukrainian drone attacks on energy infrastructure are intensifying fuel shortages in Russia, triggering a rare admission from President Vladimir Putin of the gravity of the situation.

In unusually candid public remarks to a meeting of senior officials on Sunday, Putin explicitly acknowledged that Ukrainian strikes had led to fuel rationing.

On Sunday, Russia’s president admitted that Ukrainian attacks on infrastructure facilities “create problems”.

“Right now we’re observing a certain shortage, but it’s not critical,” Putin said in a Kremlin-published interview.

“We will certainly ensure the security of both the country and our citizens, as well as the inviolability of Russia’s borders,” he added.

Zavadskaya, at FIIA, said the Russian president was forced to admit the fuel shortages “because they had become too visible to deny”.

“A complete denial would have looked implausible and would have incurred even higher reputation costs of the crisis,” the analyst said.

“But the admission followed a familiar Putin pattern, especially visible before and during major crises: The president remains in control, while lower-level officials and managers become responsible for failures.”

Paul Craig Roberts added that:

But what Putin refuses to acknowledge is that the Ukrainian strikes on Russia are war.

Putin calls increasingly successful Ukrainian strikes on Russia, aided and abetted by NATO and Washington, “terrorist attacks on our civilian targets and infrastructure.”

In other words, Russia is not at war. Russia is merely experiencing terrorist attacks.

Like the US attack on the Nord Sea Pipeline. Like the US attack on the Russian strategic bombing fleet. Like the US attack on Putin’s home intended to kill him. There is no war here folks. Just terrorist actions.

As Putin has redefined war as random terrorist acts, he doesn’t have to win a war, just ration gasoline, run up the Russian trade deficit with gasoline imports, accept Russian civilian casualties as a result of “terrorist activities,” and do nothing to win a war.

The failure to win the war is demoralizing the Russian people and discrediting Russia as a military power, a discrediting that is bringing on a much larger and more dangerous war with the West, a war that will be nuclear.

It's only terrorism?

Let's see:

Four and half years ago, Putin initiated a supposedly existentially important and self-defending — 'special military operation' — to stop Ukraine's slaughter of 14,000 Russian people living inside Eastern Ukraine.

This Russian — explicitly 'not-a-war' — operation has now killed a few million people.

Including at least 1.5 to 2.0 million of Putin's supposedly beloved Ukrainian Slav brothers.

And at least, a few hundred thousand Russians.

So:

if Russia's not-a-war Ukraine invasion was launched

on Putin's stated existentially necessary grounds —

why has it remained a lollygagging serial slaughter

that has achieved not one of its announced strategic purposes?

And the most obvious point

Why would anyone — of realistic mind — classify Ukraine's attempts to fend off the Russian invasion — by attacking Russia's Homeland in the essentially the same way that Russia is attacking into Ukraine — as 'terrorism'?

Are we to think that Russia can attack Ukraine's (admittedly Nazi) people on Ukraine's territory, but Ukraine cannot do the same in reverse?

Clearly, Putin — like his American and European counterparts — is a sophistry-spouting Adam Henry of astonishing strategic imbecility.

Indeed, if I were Russian, I would categorize President Putin as the West's strategic asset inside the Kremlin.

The moral? — Is a bit of leadership culling in order?

Humanity would benefit from having some of this planet's traitorously inept and cowardly government heads removed from any ability to influence Homo sapiens' genome.

Cowardice, unrealism, and rank stupidity are — to my arguably primitive mind — even uglier than the West's rampaging greed.

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Russian leadership's stupidity is now world class