#craigmurray has a great point about this apparent #ploy by #putin to create #confusion with #wagner #attacking #moscow https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/.. I fully believe that #putin almost just lost control of #russia and his #reputation has just been massively damaged. #ukraine should have #capitalised on this and made hundreds of miles of #progress , but they dropped the ball.
It looks like the #eu just about made it through #winter despite #russia 's #putin 's best efforts to make it as tough as possible: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-ec.. Some people have said that a warm #winter may cause massive issues elsewhere, though.
Interesting, seems like #ukraine are making a move on #kherson , which could turn into an almighty loss of #russian #soldiers https://youtube.com/watch?v=ejEKxfCxbAY #putin has declared #martiallaw in the " #annexed " areas, meaning they are not at all #confident that they can keep them.
This is a great point raised by #craigmurray , #ukrainian #regions #invaded by #russia 's #president #putin were *never* a #russian #majority , not even during the #soviet #era https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/.. It's surprising that #mainstream #news have made zero effort to #rebuke his #claims .
#putin is suggesting that the #west wants to #destroy #russia https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/putin-.. This is clearly a dumb #narrative , the #eu were very happy with the previous #arrangement , why would they want a #regime change? It was *him* that #triggered this #war in #ukraine .
Whilst I don't particularly like #hungary #supporting #putin , the #eu is showing why you are not free whilst acting under their #superstate https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/e.. You are completely subject to their #political will, with them looking to hold back 7.5 #billion #euros of #money .
Hmm, it seems as though the more #ukraine push back #russia , the closer they may be getting to #putin #declaring full out #war https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/u.. #ukraine will be be able to #sustain this rate though, of both #men and #weapons .
Interesting, #putin #fired 150 #fsb #agents in #russia and #imprisoned the #sergeibeseda for the #failed #invasion of #ukraine https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/putin.. Here's the thing, the #momentum around this is too large for #putin to #ignore - it's quite likely he is now in trouble.
Thank goodness the #pope has now #bravely #denounced #putin , *several months* into #russia 's #invasion https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/p..
#putin is #desperately #conscripting new #recruits into the #russian #army to #replace #dead #soldiers in #ukraine and to bolster the #faked numbers: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/p.. Apparently this is #unchanged from #previous years, but I #doubt this is actually true. It's widely #believed that the #russian numbers are #faked .
#putin #warns #poland that it is becoming #nato 's #frontline - and he's not wrong: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/k.. But this is also within #poland 's #interests too - #poland also don't want to see the rise of the #ussr .
It appears that #putin is possibly being #misled by his own #military #generals on the #invasion 's #progress https://www.zerohedge.com/military/limit.. Apparently #putin wasn't even made aware of the heavy #russian #losses in #ukraine - insane if true.
Turns out that #putin may have #underestimated his #invasion into #ukraine , as his #military #hardware breaks down and #requires #repairs - where the #manufacturing is based in the #cities he is #bombing ! https://youtube.com/watch?v=Uo5mf224AH8 This is a massive #military #planning #failure !
#russia keep saying that #peacetalks with #ukraine are going well, yet #putin #refuses to #meet with #zelensky https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/k.. Obviously he #fears that somebody might try to #assassinate him, and that the entire world will know exactly where he is for some brief moment. It's not like the #us haven't #assassinated an #iranian #military #commander on #foreign #soil ...
#elonmusk being a #keyboardwarrior and #challenging #russia 's #putin for #ukraine https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/elon-m.. As the #article points out, this could also be about avoiding #scrutiny from the #sec ...
@barray on Fri Mar 11 17:33:53 UTC 2022 said: &eAlso note that #putin 's #supply #convoy have for now #retreated and #dispersed into #nearby areas, likely to prevent them being #targetted easily: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/s.. #russia is still #planning to #attack #kyiv very soon, but it will likely be to no #success .So the #wheat and #crudeoil #stocks dropped due to #peacetalk #optimism between #russia and #ukraine https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/stocks.. The joke is, neither side is prepared to back down. #putin is sending #military from #syria if that's any #indication https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/p.. The #market is simply wrong.