The Brink of War?

[StevieWonders]

General Roman Gavrilov, deputy head of Russia's National Guard, arrested in apparent purge of military and intelligence commanders. Gen Gavrilov was reportedly arrested either because of "leaks of military info that led to loss of life" or the "wasteful squandering of fuel", according to Christo Grozev, the chief Russia investigator at the Bellingcat open-source intelligence reporting project.

"One thing is clear: it's doubtless that Putin recognises the deep s--- this operation is in," he wrote on Twitter. "It's so bad that he changes horses in mid stream – a big no-no during war."

Gen Gavrilov had previously worked as a commander in the FSO, the military unit tasked with guarding the president. Russia's National Guard has been fighting in Ukraine and has reportedly suffered heavy casualties.

Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, two Russian journalists considered best connected to Russia's intelligence community, said Colonel-General Sergei Beseda, the head of the FSB's Fifth Service, and his deputy, Anatoly Bolyukh, had been arrested for corruption and intelligence failings.

"It looks like two weeks into the war, it finally dawned on Putin that he was completely misled. The department, fearful of his responses, seems to have told Putin what he wanted to hear," they wrote in an article for the Centre for European Policy Analysis, a Washington-based think tank.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-ne...ssia-traitors/

[cdnmatt]

General Roman Gavrilov, deputy head of Russia's National Guard, arrested in apparent purge of military and intelligence commanders

Yeah, apparently Western intelligence thinks he's freaking out and believes the only way Russia could be failing this badly is due to sabotage, so the purge has commenced!

Wonder how long it'll be before Putin purges the wrong person, and finds himself in a cell facing a military court for high crimes against the Russian state.

[StevieWonders]

Yeah, apparently Western intelligence thinks he's freaking out and believes the only way Russia could be failing this badly is due to sabotage, so the purge has commenced!

Wonder how long it'll be before Putin purges the wrong person, and finds himself in a cell facing a military court for high crimes against the Russian state.

It will be interesting to read the Kremlin spin doctors’ response. Is there an English edition of Pravda online?

[cdnmatt]

Putin will pay for his mistakes in his next life,

Oh who knows, that could come as early as tommorrow. Russia has a track record of not being overly empathetic towards leaders who lose big time, so Putin may be on his way out sooner than later.

[StevieWonders]

Oh who knows, that could come as early as tommorrow. Russia has a track record of not being overly empathetic towards leaders who lose big time, so Putin may be on his way out sooner than later.

Wishful thinking

[cdnmatt]

Wishful thinking

Well, do you think Rambo is available then? He was great at battling Russians, and would have this shit sorted out pronto.

[Dodger]

Wonder how long it'll be before Putin purges the wrong person, and finds himself in a cell facing a military court for high crimes against the Russian state.

Or worse yet, having one of his security guards serve him the same type of fruit juice that Stalin drank back in 1953.

[Dodger]

Wouldn't it be an interesting twist if the highly motivated Ukraine Military shifted from its defensive posture - and launched an all-out attack on the Kremlin?

[StevieWonders]

Wouldn't it be an interesting twist if the highly motivated Ukraine Military shifted from its defensive posture - and launched an all-out attack on the Kremlin?

I think of the Kremlin buildings almost “world heritage site” status

[Up2U]

Yeah, instead of wiping whole country by carpet bombing like US and EU did in Iraq, Vietnam, Libya, Syria, or to drop 2 nuclear bombs, like US did in Japan, Russia does precise operation where for month of the campaign fatalities within civilians are below 1000. It shows "how ineffective the Russian military is".

And let me remind you Afghanistan. US and NATO spend 20 years there and ran without result. That's effectiveness!

And so did Russia (USSR) in Afghanistan, 10 years, with far greater losses