Retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling and CNN political and national security analyst David Sanger discuss the leak of classified documents from the Pentagon with C...
Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin has become a victim of his own hubris. He firmly believed his security services had infiltrated and undermined the Kyiv government; that a majority of the Ukrainian population were opposed to President Zelensky and favoured better links with Russia; and that his military was fit, capable and ready to mount a quick strike on Kyiv to effect regime change. Now, however, the prospect of defeat on the battlefield is becoming ever more likely and Putin’s grip on power ever more tenuous.
Where are they getting this from? This reads like something hallucinated by GPT. I have not once read this theory that Russia thinks they can pull off something like a colour revolution in non-Russian majority parts of Ukraine.
If you ascribe to your enemy all sorts of goals, plans and timelines they never had then you can paint it as a defeat for them when all those things don’t happen.
It’s a good way to boost morale among your own ranks but in terms of reality it is just moving the goalposts to be able to redefine your own defeat as a victory.
Where are they getting this from? This reads like something hallucinated by GPT. I have not once read this theory that Russia thinks they can pull off something like a colour revolution in non-Russian majority parts of Ukraine.
If you ascribe to your enemy all sorts of goals, plans and timelines they never had then you can paint it as a defeat for them when all those things don’t happen.
It’s a good way to boost morale among your own ranks but in terms of reality it is just moving the goalposts to be able to redefine your own defeat as a victory.