Propaganda is obviously important, but you cannot distort reality with it.
I read with eager interest of the publication Foreign Affairs published on Index, where the original was given a new title thanks to careful hands. The work "This may be the beginning of the end for Vladimir Putin" "Putin's Hidden Vulnerability" , which is less exciting. It's like The Name of the Planet: Death or Give Your Life Dearly . Alien and Die Hard are the titles for the single-minded. As is the article, but it was worth translating because it is extremely funny. So Putin is dead, Russia has collapsed, we just have to wait.
The author, Peter Pomerantsev, despite his name, is apparently a late follower of the classical German style. In other words, he does not become aware of the reality until he is told that he needs a few cans of diesel for the Führer's corpse in that bomb funnel, to the left of the bunker. He insists that the Ukrainian invasion of Kursk is a huge success. Not only did they win a brilliant victory in a military sense, but by kicking down the giant door standing on clay legs, Russia became nervous and collapsed. Putin's weakness has been exposed, and from here on they are falling unstoppably into the abyss.
Well, I'm not an anti-Drucker, I just doubt that the restoration of the Russian-Ukrainian border of '91 depends on some people writing random articles from the other side of the world, which the two of them enthusiastically translate.
The invasion of Kursk was anything but a success. In addition to the fanatics, the analysts playing football in blue and yellow also wrote that none of the Ukrainian goals were achieved. About which there was a lot of speculation at the beginning, in August, but the general outline consisted of the following:
• succeeds in seizing the Russian nuclear power plant, which is later, during the negotiations, exchanged one-for-one with the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant;
• it is possible to gain a permanent foothold, to build defenses so that the non-frontline troops in them annoy and occupy the Russian side;
• they will withdraw more serious Russian forces from the Donetsk front, which will protect Vuhledar, it will not be called Ugledar again.
Any way you look at it, that's zero out of three. The Russian flag flies over the Kursk power plant, instead of territorial defense forces, the best-trained and equipped Ukrainian forces crumble in Kursk, the Russians move on after taking Ugledar. According to a Ukrainian commander speaking on Twitter, day after day they are thrown out of their improvised positions and forced to retreat kilometers.
Of course, there was another goal that subsequently replaced the war goals after they failed to be realized. And this was what Peter Pomerantsev insists on in the pixels of Foreign Affairs that have seen better days, that the invasion of Ukraine has mentally prepared the Russians so much that now they really want to overthrow Putyler and his gang.
Looks like our grand strategist is screwed and this is just the beginning!
- the newspaper quotes an extremely important comment from a Telegram channel, which it wants to prove that the trust of the Russian people in the leadership has wavered. Even if it were so (I'm not an anti-drucker), some doubt arises because of the wording. Because Anglo-Saxon propaganda has been circulating in the press every week since '22 that Putin is screwing up. This shit is stuck in both Langley and MI6 HQ, probably some sociologist with a diversity quota making his day by sneaking his own perversions into the working papers.
Because you can say a lot of bad things about Putin, in fact, mostly bad things can be said about him, but he's not that dirty guy. Just as Russia will not collapse because of American and English chatbots commenting on Telegram, then Foreign Affairs writes an explanatory statement about it.
According to Pomerantsev, the invasion of Kursk made it obvious even to the one-time bamba Russian that this war is not going well, they will lose, Moscow will soon have to be set on fire, while Putin's dacha is being moved behind the Urals. (That's not what he wrote, I was joking here.) Because a Ukrainian success of this size and brilliance cannot be covered up by Russian state propaganda, despite the fact that it
the government has stifled liberal media in Russia, forcing independent news organizations to close or move out of the country and blocking access to platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.”
The usual texts. It's like asking the stupidest communist from the EP what he hates about Hungary only in Strasbourg. And here we turn again to Langley! The various sociologists who dream of themselves as the geopolitical totem fact and the king of covert operations all come to mind about the same thing. That apart from them, the peoples inhabiting the planet are primitive, the Russians, the Chinese, the Hungarians, the Indians, etc. are primitive. etc. But if they once had a proper media, Radio Free Europe would be available, Euronews, Deutsche Wellen's Hungarian-language YouTube videos about the lesbian pastor couple who drag after themselves a gecko, maybe the native civil society would create such green field miracles as the Partizán and the Magyarinfo, then people would immediately stop being jerks, democracy would win and everyone would immediately embrace American interests.
If there is no proper media, because Putyler has banned everything, then you have to break into Kursk, and the people will realize from here that there is no more, the vodka has run out. Foreign Affairs has already announced the victory.
Information also plays a decisive role, which has already been proven in some of the biggest wars of the twentieth century
Peter Pomerantsev finally made a wise statement, with which we vehemently agree. Only then why do they lie? It was not Russia that collapsed as a result of the Kursk invasion, but Ukraine. They took a big risk, it didn't work out. This is the harsh and brutal reality, and what happened at Ugledar. When, despite orders from above, from the Zelensky administration, the defenders withdrew from the city.
And what is the capitalized West's answer to this? An article appears in Foreign Affairs that Ukraine is accumulating success after success, the Russian system is faltering, Putyler lacks capital and is screwed.
Of course, propaganda is important, but you can't distort reality with it, especially in a war.
Featured image: MTI/EPA/Sputnik/Grigory Sysoyev
