9.20.25
“The most acute period of our military conflict with the West in Ukraine is entering its final stage. We have decided against using our most terrifying weapons to save as many lives as we can among both the civilian population and our valiant military troops. With that in mind, we have come to the realization that we might not achieve, at least for the time being, the same sort of victory in Ukraine that we did over Napoleon’s army. That war secured four decades of peace for Europe. We also don’t envision, for now, a defeat for the West along the lines of that dealt to Hitler’s army.”
This clumsy paragraph appeared on the official Rossiyskaya Gazeta Kremlin website on the morning of Aug. 8 and as yet has largely gone unnoticed both within Russia and throughout the world. The piece was credited to Sergei Karaganov, long considered to be a pseudonym used by Russian President Vladimir Putin. It is easy to imagine him writing this through gritted teeth as it was most likely extracted under duress – but from whom? This one-of-a-kind text was published just three days after Putin returned from his visit to Beijing which suggests that the Russian dictator received a strong recommendation to back away from the strategy of nuclear blackmail that has constituted the essence of his entire foreign policy since March 18, 2014. Fast forward eight years to a joint press-conference held on Feb. 9, 2022, when Putin personally issued a nuclear threat – given in highly ungrammatical Russian – to President Macron of France should NATO dare to intervene on behalf of Ukraine.
Why did Russia’s maniacal nuclear terrorist Karaganov sign a document officially announcing “urbi et orbi” that the country “
has decided not to use its most terrifying weapon?” This sorry excuse for a “Fuhrer” leading this sorry excuse for an empire is evidently “
not seeking victory for the time being” in a war which he started. In other words, he plans to lose it. I might have an answer to this fundamental question. Comrade Xi decided to show both the Global South and the Global West two things: China’s potential to act as a peacemaker – the laurel wreath of a Nobel Laureate could be beckoning. The terrifying, uncontrollable Putin is in fact in a state of complete vassal-like submission to him. Still, I do not have answers to two other minor questions: Why has Karaganov (whoever he is) not yet shot himself? Why have the Z-patriots not yet removed Putin (by shooting or “early” retirement?
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