Russian military affairs commentator speaks unfiltered
An off-script moment from Russian TV reveals what we all knew. All is not well with Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” in Ukraine. Russia faces a million armed and motivated Ukrainians ready to die for their country. They are supplied with modern arms by NATO countries (with more coming) backed by 25 times the Russian Federation’s the economic output. Time is not on Putin’s side so long as Ukrainians are willing to fight Russian conscripts.
The situation over time will only get worse. Do not take “information tranquilizers,” warns Mikhail Khodaryonok:
“The main deficiency of our military-political position is that we are in full geopolitical solitude and — however we don’t want to admit it — practically the whole world is against us … and we need to get out of this situation,” Khodaryonok continued on the talk show, with the other studio guests appearing dumbstruck by his outspoken critique.
A bemused Josh Marshall notes (TPM):
But the best part is about halfway through he says, no, not even Rand Paul can save us. Really! He doesn’t refer to Paul by name but he notes that the Lend-Lease type program is finally getting underway, marrying unlimited troops with unlimited weaponry “and even the resistance of a single senator will be overcome quickly.” That single senator is Rand Paul, who he is so far blocking passage of the bill.
Paul’s opposition will quickly be overcome, predicts Khodaryonok.
(h/t CO)
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