When Brother Trump heard about Putin’s latest cakewalk - his Operation Ukraine Liberation - he said that it’s because “Putin is smart”.
Putin’s genius is that he has read history, and can avoid the predictable patterns of the past, hitting his enemies in ways nobody could ever expect.
For a start, the 3 largest offensives in Eastern Europe, in 1812, 1941, and 1944, were all launched on the same day: June 22nd. This is because any earlier, the ground is covered with thick, bottomless mud, reducing a modern army into a road-bound line, like ducks at a shooting gallery.
The worst possible time to launch an offensive is the end of February, as this guarantees 4 months of quagmires.
Therefore, this is the time nobody expected an attack. Putin is a genius.
About 4 decades ago, a novel called “Red Army” predicted that WW3 would turn into a chaotic traffic jam. Everybody assumed that Putin had read that book and resolved the issue. But that’s what he wanted them to think.
Instead, by replacing the obsolete blitzkrieg strategy with a 40-mile long gridlock of empty gas tanks and Kmart-pillaging conscripts, he is waging brilliant psychological warfare. In defensive war, the waiting in the hardest thing, as nerves fray, and the imagination gets to work dreaming up nightmares of things that are going to happen soon, or at least sometime this decade.
By “failing” to supply his troops with food, Putin is making them more eager to attack, as they literally hunger for the booty of Kiev. Maybe there will even be cannibalism. Forget Molotov cocktails, the real story here will be the babooshka backrib barbecues.
I could go on about Putin’s genius, but I don’t have time to write a whole book right now, and also I’m getting hungry.
Putin’s genius is that he has read history, and can avoid the predictable patterns of the past, hitting his enemies in ways nobody could ever expect.
For a start, the 3 largest offensives in Eastern Europe, in 1812, 1941, and 1944, were all launched on the same day: June 22nd. This is because any earlier, the ground is covered with thick, bottomless mud, reducing a modern army into a road-bound line, like ducks at a shooting gallery.
The worst possible time to launch an offensive is the end of February, as this guarantees 4 months of quagmires.
Therefore, this is the time nobody expected an attack. Putin is a genius.
About 4 decades ago, a novel called “Red Army” predicted that WW3 would turn into a chaotic traffic jam. Everybody assumed that Putin had read that book and resolved the issue. But that’s what he wanted them to think.
Instead, by replacing the obsolete blitzkrieg strategy with a 40-mile long gridlock of empty gas tanks and Kmart-pillaging conscripts, he is waging brilliant psychological warfare. In defensive war, the waiting in the hardest thing, as nerves fray, and the imagination gets to work dreaming up nightmares of things that are going to happen soon, or at least sometime this decade.
By “failing” to supply his troops with food, Putin is making them more eager to attack, as they literally hunger for the booty of Kiev. Maybe there will even be cannibalism. Forget Molotov cocktails, the real story here will be the babooshka backrib barbecues.
I could go on about Putin’s genius, but I don’t have time to write a whole book right now, and also I’m getting hungry.
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