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Knut-Anne
Anders Åslund på Twitter.
Let us just stop for a moment & line up what we know is wrong in Moscow:
- Putin has a bizarre failure of a war in Ukraine. He is guilty of this failure.
- Putin has isolated himself with the two nutcases Yuri Kovalchuk & Nikolai Patrushev - few would be worse.
- Foolishly, Putin has provoked massive Western sanctions on Russia. The soft consensus expects a GDP fall of only 10%. My guess is 20%.
- Lots of top officials have been sacked, arrested or murdered.
- A vocal military opposition calls for full mobilization as war unrealistic
- Putin's prior Ukraine officials Surkov & Dmitri Kozak have disappeared (possibly arrested) & replaced by the war party Sergei Kirienko.
- Defense Minister Shoigu & chief of the General Staff Valeriy Gerasimov are still in place but have
- At least two top military commanders have been sacked: Vice Admiral Igor Osipov as the chief of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet after the sinking of its flagship the Moskva & Lt. Gen. Serhiy Kisel, commander of the elite 1st Guards Tank Army, for failing to capture Kharkiv.
- At least eight top Russian businessmen in the Gazprom, Gazprombank & Novatek sphere have committed suicide after first having stabbed their families to death. These look like obvious FSB murders, rumored to be based on Putin's complaints about FSB leaks to the US.
- We do know that Putin is dead-frightened of seeing his closest collaborators physically, while he is ok with air hostesses. This cannot be about Covid but about Putin's worry about getting murdered by his closests associates.
- To these many facts, we may add strong rumors. Most of all Putin is claimed to be suffering from severe cancer and about to undergo a major operation. Meanwhile, even madder Patrushev is supposed to be in command, while legally it should be PM Mikhail Mishustin.
- In particular, the excellent investigative journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan report about major divisions between the militant military and the cautious FSB foreign service, whose head General Colonel Sergei Beseda is reported to have been arrested.
https://twitter.com/anders_aslund/status/1528478493151043587?s=25&t=m3F65nJZg7icX_ECbNfD-g
Totalt jävla sönderfall, med andra ord.
Det som sker i anslutning till kriget (i Kreml och i Putins kretsar) är lika absurt som kriget i sig.
De här "självmorden" sticker verkligen ut. Det är självklart att flera av dessa män (eller alla?) blivit mördade. Ryssarna är inte duktiga på mycket, men att ha ihjäl människor har de alltid varit duktiga på.
De gillar mord, avrättningar, fejkade självmord osv.
Att döda människor = klassisk rysk problemlösning.
Att ha ihjäl ryssar, brukar ryssarna vara experter på.
Kolla bara på drivorna av soldater, som Putin offrar.
De är inte värda mer än gråsuggor....
Klart som fan att Putin är rädd.
Skulle jag också vara.
Sprickan mellan FSB och militären är intressant.
FSB är väl säkerhetstjänsten, som bla torterar ihjäl ukrainska civila?
Förhoppningsvis skapar kriget så djupa sprickor i Ryssland, att regeringen faller samman.
Det blir ingen tebjudning isf men jag bänkar mig med kaffe och Singoalla....
Jag tittar gärna på 🙂
Dumjävlar.