06-03-2023, 03:11 AM
What a shit show for Russia.
- Belgorod region now has an insurgency and its police force has been compromised
- Drone strikes in Moscow and expected to continue
- Kadyrov fighters attacking Wagners who are leaving Bakhmut
- Anthony Blinken publicly saying Russia went from 2nd best army in world to 2nd best in Ukraine
- Sweden on track to join NATO by July
- NATO talking about path for Ukraine to join the alliance
- Ukraine counteroffensive yet to really start
These are all demonstrating catastrophic Russian weakness even without discussion of territorial control in Ukraine.
The question I have is who is behind the insurgency? It apparently has access to tanks, maybe even helicopters, so it has to be some kind of government one would think. Logically, it would be Ukraine, but would western Allie’s OK this kind of thing? Maybe the tanks and craft being used are Ukrainian Russian ones so no western arms are being used in Russian territory? Maybe some Russian oligarchs have arranged to finance the insurgency to weaken Putin? Does anyone know?
Putting aside who is behind the insurgency, would western intel and covert ops like CIA be working to destabilize Russia further by propping up other insurgencies or independence movements away from Russian Federation? The U.S. has certainly been burned by this kind of meddling before and I’m not sure if our government wants to pull these levers on Russia anymore given what it became after it was destabilized last time.
- Belgorod region now has an insurgency and its police force has been compromised
- Drone strikes in Moscow and expected to continue
- Kadyrov fighters attacking Wagners who are leaving Bakhmut
- Anthony Blinken publicly saying Russia went from 2nd best army in world to 2nd best in Ukraine
- Sweden on track to join NATO by July
- NATO talking about path for Ukraine to join the alliance
- Ukraine counteroffensive yet to really start
These are all demonstrating catastrophic Russian weakness even without discussion of territorial control in Ukraine.
The question I have is who is behind the insurgency? It apparently has access to tanks, maybe even helicopters, so it has to be some kind of government one would think. Logically, it would be Ukraine, but would western Allie’s OK this kind of thing? Maybe the tanks and craft being used are Ukrainian Russian ones so no western arms are being used in Russian territory? Maybe some Russian oligarchs have arranged to finance the insurgency to weaken Putin? Does anyone know?
Putting aside who is behind the insurgency, would western intel and covert ops like CIA be working to destabilize Russia further by propping up other insurgencies or independence movements away from Russian Federation? The U.S. has certainly been burned by this kind of meddling before and I’m not sure if our government wants to pull these levers on Russia anymore given what it became after it was destabilized last time.