Maybe. Never forget the first thing to die in war is the truth.
Transnistria is de facto under his control anyways. And anti-West. And pro-Russia. Also. Having to defend it instead of overtly taking it to low info minds is better for managing perceptions and winning information warfare. We do not know if he has stacked a ton of extra troops there like in Belarus to fight or not. He very well could have a wave or two come out of there in the future like he will with Belarus.
This publicly became a thing after that “Wagner is running out of ammo” psyop they ran to keep Ukraine committed to suicide in Bakhmut. Ukies took that bait and likely considered dividing their forces to deny the enemy, seek a perceived advantage and likely spring a serious trap. Putin is no dummy. He is KGB. Master of psychological and information warfare. Do not underestimate his moves.
Everything he has done in this war has won hearts and minds and manipulated the US, NATO and Ukraine into self-pwns by obfuscating signal from noise. The way things are shaking out he will get a better pretext for officially taking it and when this war expands there by NATOs doing, he also has the CTSO in his back pocket.
Russians conduct business much differently than the west.
Russians conduct business much differently than the west.
I think you are correct. Putin does make moves the US sees as mistake but Putin is winning on every front and is still in charge. Perhaps I needed to adjust my perception. I figured this was going to be a long game but I also figured Russia would have hooked up with Transnistria by now and landlocked Ukraine. When the US loses in Ukraine (and yes you CIA cockmites, it will) it'll try again and again. The US engineered a color revolution in Chechnya with Islamic Fanatics. LOST. The US got the Georgians to invade South Odessa. LOST. The US, EU, and NATO engineered a color revolution in Ukraine (Euromaiden). They'll lose again. One would think the US and the west would stop fucking with the Russians.
The funny part are the west calling the Russian "sham" referendums in the four liberated regions considering elections in the US are outright rigged.
They also tried a color revolution in Kazakhstan and got BTFO’d. The CTSO treaty was invoked for the first time ever and Kazakhstan and Russia called out the CIA and named Jews like George Soros. I think that TPTB even shut it down hard and fast themselves once Russia and Kazakhstan went on blast and were clearly ready to go HAM.
The main error that the US makes is that the modern version of Western Civilization, which is Americanized, and no longer drawing from classical and enlightenment sources, is mentally infantile. America is mentally a baby. Russia as a continuous civilization is so much older and is a fusion of east and west, with all the vestigal elements of classic western civ which Americanized Civ has discarded. Russia is the successor to both Byzantium and the Golden Horde, and draws heavily from both as they continue to mature in their own unique way. America is like an immature narcissist that wants to deny others what it cannot have and smash toys when it doesn’t get its way.
We get Russia wrong because we don’t have the vocabulary and concepts to properly discuss it, let alone deconstruct or manipulate it. Russia understands us. Very well. And in The Art of War, if your enemy does not know you while you know your enemy, you need not fear 1,000 battles.
The Russian mind is very wise and soulful. The West has become a murder-suicide cult and easy to play and bait into self-pwns. Sadly, our ignorant leaders lie to the rest of us which makes it all the more bewildering to the herd about why shit is happening the way that it does.
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