Putin Concedes Weakness On Battlefield

• Nikolai Feldman
• 21.09.2022, 11:13

No more giggles from the Kremlin chief.

On July 7, 2022, Putin about Ukraine's plans to defeat Russia on the battlefield: "let them try". He was talking and giggling confidently.

Less than three months have passed and for some reason Putin did not like the way Ukraine tried to win on the battlefield.

Today Putin has conceded his weakness on the battlefield when he started to come up with both "partial" mobilisation and recognising occupied territories as Russian and under attack by Ukraine.

It is not yet a final collapse, not the result of a knockout, not a total defeat. But definitely the fear and acknowledgement of the "partial" defeat, the sense of an inexorably approaching finale, extremely negative for Putin and his Russia.

Putin is no longer giggling. He has realised the hopelessness of his situation. He no longer has anything to sell to his "people" as a victory. No one is going to let Putin save his face. He will have to sell his people the defeat.

Moreover, a complete defeat is inevitable. We either have to get out of Ukraine on our own, including the Crimea, which means to concede voluntarily our total defeat, or try to postpone this moment of total defeat for as long as possible. It is clear that Putin chooses the second option.

He chooses to sacrifice even more people of the Russian federation and will keep nourishing all the invaded territories with them for as long as they are able to stay there until they finally flee, as they did in Kharkiv region ten days ago.

One last thing.

"This is not a bluff," Putin said of his plan to use nuclear weapons to defend invaded Russian territories. This is said exclusively to his own people before the future mobilisation. So that people would be more confident about sacrificing their lives.

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