President Putin Needs to Shake-Up Himself by Paul Craig Roberts!
(2024-05-14 at 19:05:24 )

President Putin Needs to Shake-Up Himself by Paul Craig Roberts!

President Putin is conducting a large shake-up in the Russian government. He needs to give himself a good shaking as well.

Ramzan Kadyrov, leader of Russias Chechen providence said on Russias Rossiya TV channel:

"I believe that we need to attack more actively, we need to hit hard while there is time. This month we need to take the nearest territory, we definitely need to take Odessa and Kharkiv. Then sit this Zelensky down and force him to sign all the papers that Russia needs for the security of our state, citizens and the Russian-speakers who live on the territory of Ukraine."

This is the second Russian war leader after Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner Group, to express dissatisfaction with the glacially slow pace at which President Putin is conducting the conflict. One wonders if Kadyrov will have a similar fate to Prigozhin.

I am not an expert on the Russian military. My impression is that the Wagner and Chechen soldiers are Russias best combat troops. It is a pity to waste such troops in a war conducted at a snails pace.

The slow pace at which President Putin has conducted the war has resulted in the war being greatly widened and thus made much more dangerous and difficult to resolve.

Indeed, President Putin is now in danger of NATO occupying Odessa before Russian troops can get there. If the West can keep Odessa and Kharkiv out of Russian hands, the war will be a defeat for President Putin.

It is inexplicable that Putin takes this risk. Putins dilemma is that a man who sees himself as an instrument of peace is a poor war leader.

Curiously, Foreign Minister Lavrov says that the West has decided to prolong the war. No. The prolonged war was Putins decision. A war that should have been over in three weeks has lasted 27 months.

Putins neglect of the wars requirements is the reason that Russians in the Russian city and region of Belgorod are slaughtered by drones and missiles on their way to work and why Russian apartment buildings in Russian cities struck by high intensity weapons supplied to Ukraine by the West collapse on the inhabitants.

The snail-paced conflict was supposed to save lives. Instead, casualties have multiplied many fold and spread to Russian civilians distant from the battlefield.

Now there is a shakeup at the top of the Russian military with a civilian without military experience taking over as defense minister.

I think Putin would be taken more seriously if he had appointed Ramzan Kadyrov as defense minister. Instead, Putin has stuck in an economist who, like Putins central bank director, is more concerned with the expense of the conflict-now one-third of the Russian budget-than they are about winning the war before it spins out of control.

The neo-liberal Putin supports as Russias central bank manager is a failure on all fronts. She left Russian assets in the West to be seized by Washington,D.C.s sanctions. She was unable to understand that Russia did not need loans from the West to develop economically. And now she imposes 16% interest rates on the Russian economy. Stalin would have long ago shot her. I have often wondered if Russia can survive Putins central bank director.

Putin has done a good job of Russifying a population that was infatuated with the West. The population again thinks of itself as a distinct and proud national entity, not as a wannabe cog in globalist machinery run by Washington,D.C..

Putin gets kudos for this, but his conduct of the war maximizes the likelihood of the conflict spinning out of control. Prigozhin understood this, and so does Kadyrov. Will Putin understand before his limited military operation spins into World War 3?

Scott Ritter Says Ukraine is Militarily Exhausted and the Conflict Has 3 months to go.

The question is whether Washington,D.C. accepts the defeat or whether more troops will follow the French Foreign Legion into the conflict.

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