The Russian army has gone on the defensive in Ukraine.
(Photo: Reuters)
It’s not always easy to rationally understand Vladimir Putin’s tirade. But the partial mobilization now ordered by the Russian President, which is causing great concern in the West, is an admission of weakness. With the threat of nuclear weapons, he wants to defeat the stronger West. There is a fine line between mobilization and hoisting the white flag.
The partial mobilization that Putin announced on Wednesday morning is intended to strengthen his troops in Ukraine. Ultimately, it is an admission that his special operation to “liberate” a Ukrainian people allegedly subjugated by the Nazis and relegated to cannon fodder by the West has failed.
The Ukrainians have not gone over to him, have not happily surrendered to Russia, but are fiercely resisting the aggressors, thereby bringing the Kremlin ruler, who is clinging to the neo-imperialist dreams of a Greater Russia, to the brink of defeat. Nobody would have expected that, the achievement of the Ukrainian army is all the greater.
So now more Russians are supposed to go to the front to fight there with outdated technology, traditional command structures and no sense of mobilization. In this way, Russia risks a major defeat. Putin wants to force victory with threats, above all with the threat of nuclear war.
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He wants to put the Ukrainians to flight and dissuade the West from continuing to supply arms to Ukraine. The Soviet Union achieved its cohesion with fear, and fear is now supposed to act as a deterrent again. But the principle of deterrence, widespread during the Cold War between the USSR and the West, does not allow fear to dominate.
Putin fails to convince his people
The West is superior to Russia economically, militarily and morally, as a champion of freedom and democracy. The claim to be fighting neo-Nazism comes from a man who has largely converted his country into a dictatorship with partly fascist traits: increasingly repressive on the inside, increasingly aggressive and imperialist on the outside – and overall ideologically blinded.
Outdated technology and traditional command structures in the Russian army.
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Putin doesn’t convince his people, he forces them to obey. The people who don’t want to submit flee to Europe. In the end, the West can only lose if it doesn’t believe in its own strength.
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