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I think Putin has to walk a very narrow corridor in the management of the Ukraine special military operation. Regardless of the Trump and European BS, Putin realizes that he can never trust the west again. This means that NATO or it’s remnant and other European countries will always be trying to and circle and control Russia for its natural resources.

Russia, therefore will have to maintain an eternal state of vigilance, meaning an active well trained military defense in the field. Paradoxically a low level of conflict helps to maintain such a state of readiness without extracting too many losses and placing too much burden on its economy in contrast to a full mobilization for total war.

It is actually to Russia’s advantage if the Europeans and Zelensky continue their what amounts to annoying provocations with these drone attacks on Russia’s energy facilities or incursions into Russia territory which do not have any significant military consequences. But they do help to maintain Russian civilian concerns about the need for military readiness, I.e., a tolerable level as long as the economy still functions.

Russia, however, needs to maintain just the right amount of a credible level of military deterrent against NATO and Ukraine in order to not over embolden NATO and the West. The western leaders really are that stupid and that they will seize upon any signs of perceived weakness to escalate the war, even if they cannot possibly win, but which nevertheless would not benefit Russia.

Likewise, Russia does not want to launch too aggressive an offense because then that would alarm the West even more and feed public fears of a Russian invasion into Europe, which is not and has never been Russia’s intent. So for now, a tactically sound strategy of a war of attrition actually serves to enable a lower intensity conflict, which is actually what Russia probably needs to avoid any letting down of its guard and then having to face a much bigger problem if it allows the West to rearm and redeploy via a “Minsk 3” peace agreement or ceasefire. Putin has already been burned badly enough in Minsk1 and 2 and Istanbul.

So Russia will pretend to listen to Trump and all of his BS as well as all the empty threats and plans by the western European countries which are totally impotent so as to lead them on in maintaining a low level conflict and making them think that Europe and NATO have a chance of succeeding if they persist.

Thus Russia can grind on , “quietly” acquiring more territory it believes it will need as a buffer zone in perpetuity. My working hypothesis is that they will want Odessa, Karkhov, and vast swathes of land east of the Dnieper, and possibly even Kiev itself. A low intensity war of attrition allows them to acquire this without raising too much alarm.

And as far as the JFK assassination, he was allowed to enter into the kill zone. The car was open, the Secret Service agents had stepped off of the vehicle in violation of protocol, the vehicle stopping after gunfire had broken out to be sure that the assassins had a chance to shoot a sitting duck. The assassination team, probably at least three or four in number, but certainly not Oswald, really bungled the job. But that’s what you would expect from a loosely organized gang of mafia assassins assembled by some slipshod politicians, CIA gangsters and Israelis.

But don’t stress too much over the JFK missing files. I don’t think there are many missing pieces to the puzzle. LBJ and George Bush were in on it. The assassins were a bunch of hoodlums, the Israelis, MIC , CIA and of course the bankers fighting against government issuance of silver certificates instead of fiat by the FED…they too were all in on it.

Stay armed and ready citizens. See what happens to people who aren’t.

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les online's avatar

Seems The Germans are gonna make a third try at winning a World War...

Which suggests they believe "If at first you dont succeed, try. try again."

Though Einstein's "A sure sign of insanity is doing the same thing over

and over again, expecting a different result" comes to mind...

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