Strategically incompetent Russia?

25 April 2025

Are there good reasons why . . .

. . . it is impossible for US neocons to take Russia seriously?

Yes

Three years in — and after the US instigated its proxied Ukraine War against Russia — the West is still lobbing drones and missiles into the Federation's homeland.

As well as continuing to assassinate influential Russian generals and journalists:

A senior Russian general has been killed after a home-made explosive device ripped through a parked car in the town of Balashikha, east of Moscow, according to the Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes in the country.

Authorities named Lieutenant-General Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy head of the main operational directorate of the military’s General Staff, as the victim of Friday’s attack, which appeared to be similar to previous attacks on Russians linked to Moscow’s military offensive in Ukraine.

Previous deadly attacks on Russians linked to the war in Ukraine include the August 2022 car bombing of nationalist Darya Dugina, and an explosion in a Saint Petersburg cafe in April 2023 that killed high-profile military correspondent Maxim Fomin, known as Vladlen Tatarsky.

Igor Kirillov, the head of the Russian military’s chemical weapons unit, was killed by a bomb planted in a scooter in Moscow in December, the boldest assassination claimed by Kyiv since the start of the conflict.

After Kirillov’s killing, Putin made a rare admission of failings by his powerful security agencies, saying: “We must not allow such very serious blunders to happen.”

That 'blunder' admission comes from . . .

. . . the same Putin, who has intentionally been lollygagging Russia's self-defensive invasion of Ukraine — while, at the same time, calling that mission an 'existential' necessity.

Notice that US neocons have ignored every red line that had Putin announced. And he and Russia have done nothing to persuasively retaliate against the West for each of those violations.

So why would anyone take this geostrategic patsy seriously?

Is this underestimation . . .

. . . of the United States' enmity and its perpetual conniving how modern Russia lackadaisically confronts what it calls existential matters?

Contrast current Russia's lack of resolve with the massively successful way that Stalin's Red Army generals reacted in World War 2 — within roughly the same three year timeline.

It is no wonder that American neocons remain unconvinced that Putin and Russia are anything but incompetent, fundamentally uncommitted, easily tricked and always out-propagandized patsies.

As Paul Craig Roberts put it 10 days ago, even before the latest Russian general assassination:

My conclusion is . . . that Putin has so badly handled the Ukrainian situation . . . and all other matters with Washington that the only agreement that can be reached is Russia’s surrender.

Putin has shown no will to fight, only to engage in fruitless negotiation.

Putin rolls out all of Russia’s superior weapons systems . . . . But no one in the West believes he would use them.

Putin is dismissed by Trump as someone to be bossed around, and by militarily impotent Britain and France who are talking about sending their soldiers to Ukraine to defeat Russia.

The moral? — Will US neocons eventually get . . .

. . . their chewed-up-Russia wish?

If I were a Russian parent — who had lost a child or two in Putin's molasses-slow 'special military operation' — I would be furious with this constantly cautious 'lawyer' president.

Three years in, and the Russian Homeland is still being attacked by the US and NATO. With important leaders being regularly picked off by the Federation's warmongering enemies.

Since when, does one treat — what Putin himself has called an 'existential threat' — as if it is a mere inconvenience?

Putin's constantly dithering politician's propaganda has been repeatedly slaughtered by his pusillanimous unwillingness to fully commit to strategically decisive actions.

If Russia loses out on achieving its repeatedly announced goals of Ukraine de-nazification, de-militarization and protecting the Russian Homeland from the US and NATO attack — it will certainly be Putin's arguably chickenshit fault.

What an embarrassment he must be to the ghosts of the fallen Soviets, whom Russia annually commemorates on May 9's Victory Day.

PeteFree.com

Strategically incompetent Russia?