DaButt
Thursday 4th May 2023 4:46pm
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Quote: Stephen Goodlad @ 4th May 2023, 9:28 AM
I wonder why the drone bombs landing on the Kremlin while Putin was inside has not been big news?
Finding anything about it for 24 hours was tricky - then just a small piece on the tv news.
Ukraine said they didn't do it and the Russians said Ukraine did it. Somebody f**king did.
A good rule of thumb: if Russia says something, the exact opposite will likely be true.
Russia has ringed Moscow with a dense layer of air defense systems. It's highly unlikely that Ukrainian drones managed to fly all the way there without being detected or engaged. It's slightly more likely that they might have been sent by anti-Putin Russians, but my money is still on a Russian false flag operation. The two drones seem to have been all flash and little bang, and they managed to detonate directly over the dome of the Kremlin but caused little or no damage. I doubt Putin sleeps under the dome - unless it's a hundred feet underground in a hardened bunker.
This was not a credible Ukrainian assassination attempt. It was probably hatched by the Russians to accomplish several goals:
1. Establish a casus belli for trying to assassinate Zelenskyy. (Which they've already done.)
2. Provide an alibi for the smaller-than-usual May 9th victory parade. They're short of men and equipment, and the Russian people are tired of the war in Ukraine and its mounting costs in lives and rubles.
3. Bring the war "home" to Muscovites to engage them more with Putin's folly.
Quote: Stephen Goodlad @ 4th May 2023, 9:28 AM
There has been speculation on Twitter for a few weeks (by people in the know) that there would soon be big news about the war.
The big news is the Ukrainian counteroffensive that everyone expects to begin soon. The weather has cleared up, they have hundreds of Western tanks and new weapons, and legions of Western-trained troops are being assembled. Russia's extensive network of trenches and fortifications in Crimea and the other occupied portions of Ukraine is proof that they, too, anticipate a Ukrainian offensive soon.