Dear Readers:
I don’t know about your workplace, but at mine, everybody has a positive attitude and is super-kind and enthusiastic all the time. Whenever a new person arrives, or an old person gets promoted, they are inundated with adoring emails: ”Welcome aboard! Congratulations on your promotion! You’re awesome! What an amazing team we have!” etc etc.
In that spirit of positivity, I have a very short article here, just a quickie to welcome the new guy, General Alexander Syrsky, to his post as Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Yay!
Syrsky is such a good choice for the job, that even the man he replaced, General Zaluzhny, was cool with his own demotion. As you can see in above photo where he makes nice with the man who just fired his a$$. Check where Za’s fingers are pointing. Anybody familiar with the basic rules of Office Politics can see clearly exactly what is going on here. Zaluzhny needed to spend more time with his family, and the higher-ups urged him not to burn any bridges, ’cause maybe some day they’ll need him back…. Don’t crush ALL his hopes all at once.
Medvedev: ”May The Ground Burn Under His Feet…”
Even more importantly, the Russian government feels very positive about Syrsky’s promotion, and wants to make sure he hits the ground running. Or just hits the ground… either way…
In this piece, hot off the press, plucky girl-reporter Olga Nikitina describes the attitude of the irrepressible Dmitry Medvedev, a leader of the Russian Security Council and member of Putin’s inner circle. In his Telegram tweet Medvedev did not hold anything back:
“Syrsky’s biography inspires feelings of the utmost hatred, contempt, and even disgust,” he begins his endorsement. ”The kind of disgust we feel towards all of those who participated in the destruction of the Soviet Union. Which was, in essence, the dissolution of the Russian Empire itself. A catastrophe during which a giant nation was destroyed, leaving millions of people doomed to suffering and death.”
Medvedev goes on to clarify the depths of his utter hatred towards the West which “maniacally and ferociously” baited and turned against each other the peoples of Russia and Ukraine — “a single Russian ethnos” — and incited them into a new civil war.
At a more personal level, Medvedev feels a deep contempt for this man, Syrsky, “who was a Soviet Russian officer, but then became a Bandera traitor.” Syrsky violated his military oath of loyalty and went to serve the Nazis.
In conclusion, Medvedev opines philosophically: “Let the land burn under his feet!”
Awful Avalanche 
”Welcome aboard! Congratulations on your promotion! You’re awesome! What an amazing team we have!”
Luckily I never had to endure that kind of BS. I like: Hi, we hope you deserve your position here. Prove it.
That is why I hate the false smiles on check out counters. The false enthusiasm you are welcomed with meeting with those you suspect the get the knife ready to stab you in the back.
All this over the top typical US crap I was glad to avoid most of the time, living in Germany, where at best you were greeted with an acknowledgement of your existence, an area of Canada where men are man, women are women and bears eat you for breakfast if you don’t have your gun ready, or in the Azores where after two years living here people slowly start to think you are actually serious of staying by learning the language and are acknowledged as a neighbour and part of the landscape..
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It’s true. America is an amazingly contradictory place. On the one hand, there is this false enthusiasm and exaggerated politeness (for certain things); and on the other hand, raging hostility. Here is a simple example:
Americans are extremely anxious (to the point of neurosis) never to let a door shut on somebody, or an elevator close on somebody. If they see somebody coming half a mile away (even if they don’t know for sure the person is approaching this particular door), they will stand and hold the door open. This gets extremely comical sometimes, and even awkward for the approaching person, because a lot of times that person is actually blocking your way. Of maybe you were headed to a different door. It would be a lot easier if they would just get out of your way quickly and let you find your own way in. It also breaches security. For example, I work in a building where you have to badge in and out, but people will stop and hold the door open for a stranger. Out of this extreme fear of seeming rude. What they are supposed to do, is slam the door in the person’s face and then let them badge in.
That’s one side of the coin. Take that same overly-polite American, and put him/her behind the wheel of a car. Then, oh boy! The rudeness, the honking, cutting people off if they are one second too slow… I think it’s a bully thing: On the road they are anonymous, so they can be bullies. In person, they want to seem polite.
I just don’t get these people at all. And I do think most of the politeness is fake. There ARE genuinely good-hearted people, but I think a lot of others are seething with rage inside.
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In conclusion, Medvedev opines philosophically: “Let the land burn under his feet!”
I like Medvedev and how he expresses his opinions drenched with the milk of human kindness. Compare him to Putin in the interview with TC, and you understand while he might be a second in command, but never a first one again. He is an excellent partner in a good cop, bad cop scenario.
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That ain’t no peace sign…lol
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Nope. I’m pretty sure it’s one of those Nazi hand-signals. Other Nazis would know what it means. Maybe something like, “I’ll snip his foreskin…?”
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Actually it’s British for ‘up yours.’
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Aha! Maybe he learned that from Boris Johnson?
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P.S. – I love how Ze just stands there grinning like an idiot while Za is basically flipping him off! I love Ukrainians…
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“Maybe something like, “I’ll snip his foreskin…?”
That was my snarkympression too — scissor-fingers indicating “I’m gonna cut your dick off.” All of it, not just the Jewish bit…
Also in terms of fingerplay, I learned a new one last week from Putin, of all people! And I know more than a few obscene body gestures (mostly Italian ones — they’re the best. Va fungool!) Tell me whether this is common amongst Russians, Yalensis.
Putin was at some function where he was talking to the public and he mentioned a rude gesture which he said he would be too polite to display. I thought it meant the “bird finger.” But some Internet wit Photoshopped an image of a thumb bent over to stick out between the index and middle fingers of a closed fist, and had Putin’s face behind that. The digital placement looks like a dick poking into an aperture — your choice of which one, depending on preferred sexuality. It would be even naughtier if the thumb was wiggling. Is that something every Russian knows, Yalensis? Conceding that since you didn’t grow up there, your knowledge might be incomplete.
I look forward to the opportunity to use this fingertrick, because flipping someone off is passe. Only, it will probably fly right over their heads, like half the things I say and do.
Lastly, about Syrsky — he’s no potato-headed leader of Slavic men, that’s for sure. Maybe he could have been, shape-wise, except for the tragic explosion where his chin got shot off. And due to the shortage of medical supplies in Ukronaziland, the facial surgeons did not have the correct size prosthesis when they went to rebuild his jaw. They had to implant a small one. So he will always be known to me as General Chinless.
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Yeah, I’m familiar with that thumb in the aperture gesture, very rude! I think it’s the one that Russians call a “kukish”!
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“Welcome to the Team”. Team is just Meat spelled differently.
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Oooh! good one! I never thought of that before! Nice anagram.
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I don’t really understand Medvedev’s contempt for Syrsky. The man is doing his best to demilitarise Ukranazistan and lose battles, from Debaltsevo in 2015 to today. Russia should probably give him a medal.
Something that I was planning for a long time, since I have a Down’s Syndrome cousin and was incandescent with rage when I saw the original video:
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Ah! that’s pretty powerful. Sending the mentally ill to the front, who would even do that? Even Hitler didn’t do that.
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It’s not even good military tactics! If you send a simple-minded person* (as the poor sod in the video seemed to be) to the front, you have to spend at least a LITTLE time training him. So he doesn’t pull the pin out of a hand grenade too early or do something to give away the position he’s hiding in, at the very least. Any minutes spent educating him on fighting could be better used to school a potentially skilled soldier. If he was given a uniform or a weapon (I didn’t see any the first and only time I watched that sad vid a few months ago) that’s gear that didn’t go to someone who would be able to use it better. Even the seat in whatever vehicle took him to that dugout — it wasn’t being filled by a guy who could be a killer.
I reckon the young fella was snagged by some recruiter who had a quota to fill. And he was passed along by officials who could steal some of his salary. Then people like the bastards who pwned him, they know they’re at the shit end of the armed services, doomed to get shrapnelled soon. So they want to feel like they’re superior to someone. So let’s pick on the retard! Sheer sadism. Cruelty is the point — it makes them feel better. Those are the types of people who squirt lighter fluid on kittens and set them on fire.
* No insult meant to people with your cousin’s condition, Raghead. I worked with a few Downs patients when I was more on the medical side of things, and they tend to be puppy-like. When they’re not frustrated, that is. Which can result in tantrum behaviour. Now some people on the autism spectrum, which can include a lot of presentations depending on the particular genetic defect, THEY can be dangerous, especially when there’s low IQ on top of the inability to relate to other humans…
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There is a new video out of then bullying him even more.
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The one where he is handed a mortar shell and holds it wrong? That’s on my to-watch list but I have the link bookmarked on my other computer. To lazy to look for it again on this one. At least he’s not dead! I’ve read on somebody’s Twaat (via Nitter — it’s not quite extinct yet, but there are workarounds such as going to nitter.cz to get access) that the Ukrosavages bash him around a bit. And this is the stuff the Nazis post because they’re happy with how it makes them look. Just think of what DOESN’T get filmed and uploaded. Just like with the Jewzis…
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Yes, I use nitter because Melon Husk now restricted reading tweets even from suspended accounts.
That video is here:
https://t.me/inessas1992/5995
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Thanks. Saved me the trouble of digging it out on the laptop. Don’t those fuggers have anything better to do than bully the poor kid? I don’t know much Russian, but the “sukha” and “blyat” I understood. Plus, handing him a mortar shell, which he COULD have inadvertently exploded by dropping it down the tube upside down — I’m no weapons expert, so is that possible if it was fused to go off? — illustrates the stupidity of having someone in your position who has no business being there. Do these Nazis think it’s a video game? They only have one life; no resets…
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Mostly they’re saying things like “Why don’t you die, you bitch?”
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In the US Army I was taught that rendering the greeting of the day “Good morning/afternoon/evening Rank/Title ” are mandatory under normal circumstances. This is to be rendered regardless whether you like or dislike the person. The greeting promotes discipline both self & external, it keeps personal interactions professional. I have used it that manner ever since, I find it useful in the conduct of my life, I recommend it to all.
I don’t have time to watch until tonight but, it’s top of my after dinner viewing;
Tucker vis-à-vis Vlad:
I [don’t always agree]* with Tucker but, you will know a man by what type of enemies he gathers and Tucker has garnered as enemies a veritable gallery of traitors, whores, Nazis, pedophiles, thieves and baldfaced-liars. Truly, a Herculean task, all the rogues that one could ever ask for as enemies; simply put, Tucker’s done something right to have the Good Lord bless him with such a hoard of haters.
*Particularly, using government to enforce a personal belief set. So long as the individual respects their surrounding society, the constitution guarantees personal freedom…even if Tucker doesn’t like it. Dislike, which he is free to express, should not engender a governmental response.
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”In the US Army I was taught that rendering the greeting of the day “Good morning/afternoon/evening Rank/Title ” are mandatory under normal circumstances. This is to be rendered regardless whether you like or dislike the person.“
As anti-authority as I am, I’m with ya on that, Brennan. I was never in the military — the half-arse doctors who screwed up my leg after I got bit by a rattlesnake on MacDill AFB put paid to that — but my dad was career Army. Our family spent a lot of time on bases. It was just part of the vibe that one had to respect rank and discipline. I thought that came naturally to everyone, like breathing air. But I keep seeing references, in articles about “what’s wrong with workers today?” about people who are unable to obey chains of command. There’s a reason that hierarchies exist. We can’t ALL be the boss.
In nursing, I spent three decades with women as bosses, many of whom were real C-words. I didn’t LIKE it, but they outranked me, so I had to put up with it. Until I could quit, or more often, until they sacked me for being an A-hole. The concept of “you are above me in the organisational structure so you get to tell me what to do” does not sink in for a lot of workers, especially younger ones. (Grouchy old fart shakes his fist at the sky and mutters about “kids these days”…)
I don’t just mean the Jamaican and Haitian CNAs (certified nursing assistants, i.e. bedpan-emptiers) I used to be in charge of in nursing homes in Florida, either. Man, you never want to be the boss of Haitians. Their cultural history has been one of being screwed over by The Man, even after they kicked out their French slave-drivers. “The Man” then had skin colour the same shade as the lowly citizens, but he was still a bastard. Consequently, they tend to have chips on their shoulder against any authority figure, even when it’s just Nurse Bukko saying “C’mon Latrisse, Mr. Jones in Bed 14-A smells like poo, help me get him cleaned up.” Not EVERY Haitian is a recalcitrant rebel, just like not every Jamaican is a slack-ass stoner. But enough of them are that you can see where the stereotypes came from.
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Syrsky is so militarily brilliant, he and Ze have decided to rush reinforcements to almost totally surrounded Avdeevka. Yup, that’s the way to win.
Watched the Carlson/Putin interview today, the second half twice. TC is an oaf. His questions were at grade school level. He had not the first clue about Ukraine/Russia history of the last ten years, not the f*cking faintest. Putin obviously could hardly believe that such a gross incompetent had come to “interview” him.
It was clear that old Tuck thought of this as his opportunity to shine up his personal rep, become a star, hey, hey. The usual boorish attitude of dumbf*ck America, wherein only America matters as in navel-gazing, the who gives one shit about anywhere else attitude. He didn’t listen, let alone absorb a damn thing Putin told him. Putin had to go back and remind him numerous times he had already mentioned that answer before. Professional Tuck Tuck? Amateur hour, ma’am — er, to be US polite.
Putin must have gone away shaking his head. If this was the best the US could offer up, the country is obviously run by dolts. Worse than he even contemplated it could possibly be. If Tuck Tuck has neocon enemies, Putin must have thought, then those people are complete raving lunatics. Like Biden’s outburst today on being found negligent on the secret files he hoarded, and being advised that prosecution shouldn;t take place because Biden wouldn’t be able to follow along, his memory and attention span shot. President Mitterand of France would surely agree, Biden needs a rest home and three times daily feedings of tasty baby-food gruel. Oh and make sure he is bib-equipped,
I could have told Putin about neocon obstinacy for free. As is was, I listened to what Putin said, disregarded TuckTuck completely, and at the end Putin was definite — it’s up to the US to reverse course if a ceasefire negotiation is to start, and if they can’t bring themselves to do that, it’s game on until they admit it or they are presented with a fait accompli. D’yuh think Tuck Tuck absorbed even that tidbit, huh, well do yuh, punk? Not a chance.
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You may be right, but I took Tucker to be playing dumb 1) so he wouldn’t appear to be a “Putin puppet” and 2) so Putin would have a chance to repeat things and explain things better for the many low-information American viewers.
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I just finished watching the interview, and my impression is closer to cc’s. Namely, that Tucker was playing dumb. To be sure, he is a typical American white man with limited historical/geographical knowledge. However, I suspect he knows quite more than he lets on. In many of his interviews he sort of plays the fool (that “look at me dumb” look he puts on his face is priceless!), but I think this is an effective tactic for drawing out his interlocutor.
To me, Putin came off as “bitter”. Bitter at having been “betrayed” by the West which he initially loved and trusted. Tucker used that word on him too, “are you bitter?” which I think gets to the core of it. Personally, I would feel a lot more comfortable with a Russian leader who DIDN’T feel betrayed by the West, because he ALWAYS knew what the West was about! For example, if you encountered a scorpion and it stung you, would you feel “betrayed”? Or just feel like, well, it’s a scorpion, I should have been more careful…
In conclusion, I believe that Tuck delivered quite an effective and revealing interview, using the patented Russian technique of playing the stock character “Ivanushka Durachok” = Ivan the Fool. Meaning a Fool who is actually a lot more cunning than he seems
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I haven’t watched it but, had Tucker performed in the manner desired by Capt. Miserly [aka Beluga], it would been immediately dismissed by the very audience that needs to hear Putin speak. Given the choice of pleasing Capt. Miserly or, playing to a larger audience I think one could be forgiven for choosing the latter. Kinda the Adlai Stevenson vs IKE dynamic where Adlai was so assured of his superiority he failed to notice that he lost the audience almost from the start.
Further, if what Capt. Miserly says is true about Tucker then Putin et al are incompetent fools. While I have been critical of certain aspects of Putin’s policies, he sure as hell ain’t nobody’s fool…
Finally, I offer this Pro-Tip on influencing people: When an observer is hyper-critical of all that surrounds them, their commentary is likely to be dismissed as the bitterness of an ordinary old man who’s life passed without notice or, significant achievement. Just saying.
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Don’t really know what to say but feel compelled to reply. Why the vitriol towards Tucker Carlson? It seems to be a subset of Trump derangement syndrome. The interview with Putin is quite an achievement, and it marks the climax of Tucker’s career journey since he quit the mainstream. But media personality he remains, and both he and Putin artfully manage to transform the one-on-one interview format from talk show ( Carlson’s comfort zone) to historical narrative monologue, though I particularly enjoyed Putin’s personal anecdotes. The viewer is presented with an impression of Putin’s masterful command of the pertinent history and of its geopolitical legalities. Very informative, and the conversation’s parameters are established.
This is Putin’s personality. When Tucker asks Putin if he feels embittered, he answers in the negative, because he does not allow such emotions to affect his decision making performance. Titillating emotions are the stuff of talk-shows. Putin doesn’t say this explicitly, but he and Carlton want this to be a consideration for the western audience. This is Putin the man- his personality is how he thinks and what he does, not how he feels. And what a face in closeup! Extraordinarily commanding eyes.
Tucker does his dumbstruck look, but inside that immobilised face you can sense the brain ticking over. Let him talk…. can the audience stay with it?…. will they get bored?…. too bad ..they should be a little more historically educated…anyhow this is Putin…and me…An American… a dumb American in the Kremlin interviewing Putin.
As for this “ dumb American” Tucker Carlson, I’ve had pleasure in seeing Tucker evolve over the years, and he can be wonderfully satirical. He seems to me to be a genuinely nice person who is courageous enough to admit his mistakes. Hats off to Tucker Carlson.
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Agree! This interview was a master “get” for Tucker, possibly the highest point of his career.
And clearly Tuck is a very intelligent man with a shrewd sense of humor, I think he assumes that “befuddled” face as a way of drawing out his interlocutor. You want to keep on talking, keep on explaining until he finally nods that he gets it… it’s quite an effective interview tactic, although not very widely used. Most interviewers want to try to seem at least as intelligent as the person they are interviewing, but Tucker is very generous in this regard.
Putin’s eyes are commanding indeed, and kind of scary. But, from my own point of view, what bothered me was that he kept harping on all the West’s various betrays, from “NATO won’t move an inch”, and on down, through the years. Knowing a bit about Putin’s biography, I think he IS bitter that it didn’t work out for him with his true love, the West. I would feel more comfortable with a Russian leader who always knew, and always hated, this intransigent enemy.
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Okay I watched the one-sided-dialogue all the way through. And following, I once again went down the rabbit hole to read Beluga’s alternate reality rant. Let me begin by saying, Captain Miserly’s original perception merits citation! Yes Folks, I believe Miserly should rise in rank from Cpt. to Maj. -it sounds better too…Major Miserly.
Back to Carlson & Putin:
Overall a very good interview, definitely NOT the normal low-brow material combined with pedantic high brow attitude that is now the normal fare in Anglo-news-networks. Kudos to Putin and Carlson for making the effort to break the information barrier.
That said; I think, sans some audio-visual aids, most westerners would be lost in Putin’s 9th century onward retelling of the history of Russia-Ukrainia. 11 centuries of history requires it’s own documentary [with a Putin narration].
As for Y’s bitterness critique…it’s certainly a valid perception but…perception is in the eye [and age] of the beholder. I too am bitter at what the neocoloni-gilded-age-econs did to this world in the aftermath of the USSRs disintegration. We are all the poorer for the actions of these twisted demonic denizens. That which are war-crimes to Russians are treasonable-crimes to Americans. Citizens of both countries were betrayed over and over, by the same people. It’s easy to say you would not be beguiled by a woman stooped by age, ahhh, but you never knew her as a young beauty…so it is not for you to say such things…yes? And God save us Y if you get your wish for a “leader” who always “right”. My father saw that show…
Of interest is Putin’s reference to evils perpetrated by the 3LAs on Satan’s chessboard. DC/London’s 3LAs have repeatedly intervened to prevent decency and common sense from finding root in this world. It is good to see a world leader call them out…the 3LAs are responsible for the disability and deaths of tens of millions of people.
I also noted Putin’s defense of Yeltsin. And before you get started Y, it’s arguably the hard-liners that hammered the final nail into the coffin, it was they who undercut the USSR through a failed coup. Agree/disagree…there’s a lot of blame to go around, it’s not a simple cowboy story of good and evil.
Putin’s life, like that of FDR’s, is complicated, both men have had to swim in muddy, turbulent water while we, who judge, bath in the distilled water of abstractions and distant perspective.
As for Carlson, he chose to enter the dusty midday arena and have a dance with the bulls of his time; his courtesan critics, on the other hand…
…sit comfortably in shaded stands, amidst the finest lace and fluttering fans all in an attempt to catch a glance of the masters who own this land.
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Very nicely poetic rant, S. Especially those last 2 paragraphs, that’s some good writing, my friend!
As for the hard-liners and the coup, well, I think they had the right idea, just the wrong performance. They were getting very concerned about Gorbachov’s high-handed way of conducting foreign policy in a completely authoritarian manner, making deals with enemy nations (like the U.S.) completely behind everybody’s back and not even pretending to consult with the Central Committee of the Party. Even Stalin was way more collegial than that and at least made the motions of getting a CC rubber stamp.
Late-Soviet Hard-liners could sense, in their bones, that Gorby was selling out the country to Papa Bush. But they were angry and confused, and what they did not see coming was that Yeltsin was an even more dangerous character, waiting in the wings, like a minor character in a Chekhov play, who is suddenly revealed as the main villain.
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I’m vitriolic toward Tucker, Ozlady. I’ve been watching him for a long time. Are you familiar with the time in 2004 when John Stewart (satirical American comedian best known for hosting “The Daily Show” when he was still funny) took the piss out of Tucker on live TV?
It was on a CNN show called “Crossfire”, a point-counterpoint program with an (alleged) leftist and rightist arguing about events. I was living in San Francisco then, always worked shifts that started at 3 p.m. and tended to have CNN on in the background as I got ready for work. “Crossfire” came on at 1 p.m. IIRC. Stewart was the show’s guest one day and he came loaded for bear. Eviscerated both the “left” person and Tucker the righty for being poseurs, pointing out (correctly) that they didn’t add any enlightenment via their “debates.” They were only arguing with each other to rile up the audience. Fake controversy for its own sake. Stewart, being a mild lefty, had special scorn for Tucker. That was back in Tuck’s bowtie-wearing days. It was a TV moment for the ages. Except it’s been eclipsed by all the media outrages that have followed during the past two decades.
It’s good that Carlson is bucking the lickspittles in the supposed left-leaning media. Somebody’s gotta do it. The video he made before the Putin interview, explaining why it’s good journalism to talk to leaders of nations that one’s own country is at odds with — good on him for that. But I still see him as being smarmy and insincere. Does he have any core values, aside from “I’m going to have a sarcastic go at the jerks who oppose me?” I doubt it. He’s the mirror image of Anderson Cooper (suave silver-haired twit from a rich family who pretends to be a leftie on CNN. A lot of my references are too “inside baseball” for people from Downundahere, including using the phrase “inside baseball.” Howzat Test cricket, strewth!) TV “news” is a Punch-and-Judy show. We watch the puppets but don’t see whose hands are pulling their strings. Including Carlson’s. He’s still got strings attached even after Rupe’s troops gave him the boot.
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Tucker started his career as a young hotshot adept of William F. Buckley Jr., the patron saint of smarmy sarcastic conservatives. Hence the bow-tie. They despised the lower classes but thought themselves to be extremely funny, just like rich-shits in elite boarding schools making fun of poor kids.
In Tucker’s defense, though, I do believe that he has matured since those earlier days. It’s rather odd (and sad) that the only slice of Americans who didn’t buy into the anti-Russian b.s. are those who used to be called “the right”, including people like Judge Napolitano. The Judge is a bit of an outlier though, because he is not smarmy and is not a hater. He seems to have genuine humanistic opinions and values. I rather like him. Tucker I could take or leave, but compared to the utterly despicable Jon Stewart (as he is now), Tucker is like a god.
These “conservative” bourgeoisie have their own agenda, of course, the main ones being pro-family, anti-immigration, capitalist development, etc. They like Putin because they see him as one of them.
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As has been pointed out, Syrsky has a terrible record in this war, so Russia will surely be delighted. The main advantage of this change for Zee is that Syrsky never expresses differences of opinion and acts as a passive yes-man. Za was more interested in military tactics than politics, so this change allows Zee to put politics completely in command in order to please the US and to satisfy his own desire for more money from the US, regardless out the eventual outcome of the war. Za promoted a reasonable strategy of flexible, active withdrawals to more defensible areas, while Zee wants his meat to fight to the last solider in a series of “stronghold” fortress-cities, a policy that was famously created by a certain German political leader in the 1940s and a foolish policy that greatly helped the Red Army move westward more rapidly during Operation Bagration, since they simply bypassed the strongholds.
The reason the US ordered Za to resign was surely because he supposedly wants to negotiate with Russia and may even have secretly contacted the Russian military authorities to explore that possibility. The US wants to extend the war for as long as possible, and definitely beyond the November US elections, no matter how many Ukrainians die or are wounded in battle. The change to Syrsky clearly shows that Ukraine has no real national sovereignty and is basically a US neocolony. The biggest remaining question is, will the US force Zee to hold presidential elections this year in order to help Biden claim that the US is fighting for “democracy” in Ukraine? If the US does force show elections, Za, who has now been decoupled from direct responsibility for Ukraine’s looming loss in the war, may run for president against Zee. Polls have shown Za beating Zee in an election runoff, so Zee may resist the US with all his might and then be disappeared and/or discovered in North Palm Beach. The Ukrainian people are not stupid, and the increasing war losses caused by Zee-Syrsky’s politically-motivated no-surrender military strategy may cause the public in Ukraine to demand an end to the war in spite of the neocons’ best efforts. Even in WW2, both the USSR and Germany allowed their soldiers to surrender in hopeless situations. On the other hand, Zee’s fanatical, childish no-surrender, fight to the last soldier strategy is ultimately based on a desire to skim off more money from more US and EU aid, and surely more and more Ukrainians are coming to see this. Moreover, the general mobilization proposal clearly originated with Zee. Za supported the proposal if and only if the war were to continue on without any negotiations taking place, and that fact is likely to become more and more widely known in the future. The last laugh probably won’t belong to Zee, not that Za is a good guy.
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Good analysis. However, I also suspect Zee has been playing superb Office Politics all along, and may even be blackmailing Biden. I mean, I am sure each guy has a telephone-book-sized dossier on the other…
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