This is a business.
Not emotional wagling.
The Russians handling all of this like a cold headed payout calculation.
Think like a professional, they make the rules, and if the Ukrainan live with the Russian Rules then they are fine, if not then they have few plant blown up.
Mouth wragling, advertisement, not calculated/ paid for actions doesn't make sense.
Like ,you know, if the Maffia break the leg of a person.They don't do it because of the emotion,revenge or whatever, but because the book has to be ballanced, all debt has to be canceled with credit, and they need to break that leg to make the tally.
If no one know that the leg was broken then it doesn't make sense, if the reason not advertised again, it doesn't make sense.
It is just business.
This is not an emotional speech, it is very rational in view of the way the Russians react.
Are the Russians really dealing with a cool head? I will tell you that this is not entirely true.
The Russians only carried out these mass attacks when they were forced to react in the face of the emotion caused by the Crimean bridge explosion. Today, 5 days after the start of the first attack, I would say that the Russians would have been able to do this well before the Crimean bridge exploded, why didn't they do it sooner if nothing would have changed if the attack had started October 09 or October 5th?
I say the reason. Because they were forced.
The strategic objective of the Russian military leadership may not have changed since the bridge explosion, but the ability to act in furtherance of all that these attacks would mean for the AFU's military logistical cargo was there from the beginning, you would say these attacks were totally rational when they were not, they were a response to an action promoted by the AFU.
When you tell me to act rationally, you are not considering that this should also apply to Russia's military leadership, I can even accept that the change of command may have some influence on this reaction to the bridge explosion, but based on military actions historically everything leads me to believe not.
When the attacks started I said that this kind of action should be casual to have the desired effect, with this new statement they are openly saying that just blow up a bridge in Russia or carry out terrorist attacks in the country and they will react for a week and all will return to normal.
The example is enough that this type of reaction is emotional, if Russia thinks that these AFU means would in no way change the strategic direction of the war, it would simply not be necessary to follow this way of reacting and then withdraw, this indicates that they simply These attacks as a form of execution, which is quite different from following a well-defined strategy even if they have setbacks.
I read somewhere on twitter he mean't more like Russia doesn't need to escalate the situation to a higher level. That the current level of missile and drone usage is enough for what their objectives are for (pre)Season 2 of the SMO.
But yeah i can't read RT because i'm located in the ooh so free garden called the EU.
Do you know why he doesn't want to escalate anymore?
Because he wants to negotiate with Kiev with Turkey as a mediator. It worked very well in previous times.
Einstein defined this as madness.
The Russian missile strikes were used, I think, to gimp Ukraine's mobility and blunt their offensives. These were combined with limited Russian counter offensives across the whole line of contact. It seems to have mostly worked since Ukraine's advance seems to have stalled with one exception near Lyman. And it is not like Russia can collapse the entire Ukrainian power grid, they refrained from attacking near the nuclear power stations, or the NPP electric supply, to prevent meltdowns. I think you will continue to see delaying tactics for the most part until the mobilized troops are available for a more general offensive. As is, Russia already seems to be forward positioning a lot of equipment.
Nice. Now explain to me why you do this after they blew up the Crimea bridge and didn't do it before? Explain rationally to me why they did this after suffering the attack on the bridge and not before when the ability to do so was already there.
And another, there are many ways of using action for the Russians, the main one is so far and what has remained intact is the fact that Zelensky is alive, the political leadership should have already been one of the main targets to be eliminated. . Perhaps as the previous colleague mentioned, when they carry out terrorist attacks in the Kremlin they may realize that they should attack as they were attacked, but depending on the course of action, it may be too late.
