Paul Goble
Staunton, Mar. 28 – Two anecdotes making the rounds in Ukraine set the stage for this Window. According to the first, a Russian soldier finally is able to call home and speak to his mother. She asks whether he has taken Kyiv. He says no. She then asks whether he has taken Kharkov. Again, he says no, but adds that he’s taken a refrigerator, a stole and two mink coats.
According to the second, the reason Russian troops march under the “Z” is that they were supposed to march under the swastika to reflect the values of the Putin regime; but Russian defense contractors seeing their chance stole one of the crossed letters, leaving the Putin forces only with one “Z.”
What is happening on the ground in Ukraine seems to justify the conclusions those telling these stories have already reached. Some Russian units are decaying into groups of looters, Vladimir Pastukhov says, something that highlights a fundamental reality: a looter state like the Putin regime will inevitably have a looter army (kasparov.ru/material.php?id=624A3B813618D).
“Those who fight like this are not a regular army,” the London-based Russian analyst says. “They are a rabble” incapable of performing real military tasks. The Soviet and Nazi militaries fought looting, but the Russian army leadership seems to believe that looting gives its soldiers an additional motivation for taking part in the invasion.
Putin’s war in Ukraine is “a war for the idea of bandits and with bandit methods,” Pastukhov continues. As such, it is a perfect reflection of the values Putin acquired while in a Leningrad stairwell facing a rat and continues to promote from his current position as president of the Russian Federation.
“By definition, such an army cannot remain capable of military action for long and will disintegrate in the course of the war, something which raises questions not only about the achievement of strategic but even the tactical goals of the Kremlin in this criminal adventure,” the analyst continues.
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