As everybody who is not living in some remote luddite monastery knows by now, Russia finally decided to invade Ukraine to ‘demilitarize it in addition to getting rid of Neo-Nazis in its government and security forces’. Fun fact- this statement is technically true as they have expressed the desire to do both for at least the past eight years. However, the true beginnings of what we are witnessing today began in 1991, after the dissolution of USSR. While the government of Russia, even in the early 1990s, had no illusion about many of the countries in erstwhile Eastern Block remaining friendly with them, they had expected the countries to maintain a good relationship with a few which were adjacent to them (Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan etc). The reason behind this expectation had to a lot to do with those countries having a significant Russian minority and security concerns due to their location. For example, the lands on which Belarus and Ukraine exist today have been on the route taken by any western invader of Russia.
Let's drop all the pretense here. The author of this substack newsletter is a Russian disinformation agent.
He claims to be an Indian working in bio-tech in North America but in all likelihood he is a Russian. His old blog was banned by Wordpress, probably for distributing Covid misinformation, or maybe because they finally figured out he was a Russian disinformation operative.
On his old, now banned, blog he made a post full of observations about an old speech by a Russian leader that could only be made by a native Russian speaker. From many of his blog posts it is obvious he is very familiar with the history of the collapse of the USSR and he is always trying to draw parallels to recent US and Western events to predict the collapse of Western governments.
I don't doubt that this article represents the current Russian thinking. I'm sure the Russian elites are planning to stick with it. They are willing to the level Ukrainian cities the same way they leveled Grozny, but it will be a Pyrrhic victory. The masks have come off now. There is no more pretending what Russian intentions are.
Let's drop all the pretense here. The author of this substack newsletter is a Russian disinformation agent.
He claims to be an Indian working in bio-tech in North America but in all likelihood he is a Russian. His old blog was banned by Wordpress, probably for distributing Covid misinformation, or maybe because they finally figured out he was a Russian disinformation operative.
On his old, now banned, blog he made a post full of observations about an old speech by a Russian leader that could only be made by a native Russian speaker. From many of his blog posts it is obvious he is very familiar with the history of the collapse of the USSR and he is always trying to draw parallels to recent US and Western events to predict the collapse of Western governments.
I don't doubt that this article represents the current Russian thinking. I'm sure the Russian elites are planning to stick with it. They are willing to the level Ukrainian cities the same way they leveled Grozny, but it will be a Pyrrhic victory. The masks have come off now. There is no more pretending what Russian intentions are.
Welcome to the new substack. I was seriously considering sending you an invitation.
Here is something you might find interesting.. https://www.fpri.org/article/2022/02/understanding-russias-invasion-of-ukraine/
especially this one- https://www.fpri.org/article/2022/01/moscows-compellence-strategy/