Somebody claims that even Putin himself doesn't trust his generals.

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There is claiming that there are no intelligent generals in Putin's military. Intelligent people are always threat, and Putin doesn't want threats around him. He wants people who are doing what he says when he says. And that denies the use of own brains. There is a tale in Novaya Gazeta that even Russian leaders don't trust their military. Putin's leadership style follows faithfully the same style. That was in use in the tsar and Soviet armies. The top thing in the Russian command system is political trustworthiness. That means the commanders have no right to say anything against their leaders. 

That kind of attitude doesn't favor initiative people. It favors people who are not willing to take responsibility for their actions. And that is the problem with the Russian military. 

And that lack of initiative actions and thinking gives a great opportunity to "yes men" whoever think themselves. The key element to earning political trustworthiness is just to make everything and only things that superiority officers or higher ranking officers are saying. And another thing is that the officers must not update their education. 

That thing caused a terrible loss to the tsars navy in the Tsushima naval battle in 1905, where Russian officers were not prepared for the Japanese torpedo boats. And that caused the entire fleet sank by Japanese torpedoes. If things like initiative education are forbidden. That causes problems. 

Another remarkable thing in the Russian-style command is that information goes only one way. The higher-ranking officers are giving orders, and they might not even want to hear reports that something goes wrong. That means the troops might try the same thing again and again causing terrible losses. The major problem in the Russian command culture is that commanders don't want to grant their mistakes. Granting the mistake is a weakness. And that's why the Russian military can make big losses on battlefields. 

This is one of the reasons why Putin started the invasion of Ukraine. The philosophy behind this kind of decision is simple. When a decision is made nothing can change it. If Putin would change or pull that order back that is against his authority. And that cannot be accepted, in that country. 

The role of people like ministers in Russia is just to give pieces of advice to Putin. And decisions are made by Putin himself. If Putin believes his advisors that shows that he cannot do everything. That is like giving the command to that advisor. Putin's philosophy is that the henchmen's role is just to please him. If that is not clear. The henchmen must go. 

So those advisors are told Putin just what he wants to hear. And there is the possibility that some commanders are giving false reports of the attack capacity of their troops. And there is the possibility that some commanders are inflated their success. The fact is that Putin is dependent on the reports that his henchmen are giving him. 

And that makes him vulnerable. If commanders are telling lies about their success, that causes the wrong estimation of the situation. And the problem is that. The commanders would not want to lose their jobs or die because they are making mistakes. So they are giving false information to their superior officers and Putin himself. 

 And this is one of the reasons why he continues his offensive without caring about losses. Accepting the reality that the mission failed is a weakness. And the Russian masculine military cannot accept weakness. So that's why the Russian military sends more and more men to war which is one of the saddest in history. 

There are two remarkable things in the Ukrainian war. The war crimes and destructive firepower.

The major question is why Russia doesn't use harder language against the western weapon aid for Ukraine? The fact is that this military aid is not enough for driving Russians away from East Ukraine. But those weapon systems causes losses for Russian troops. Maybe one purpose of that operation is simply to kill some fighters who know something that Putin doesn't want people to know. 

Things like the murders of Anna Politkovskaya and some oligarchs might be made by some people, which fighting in Ukraine today. Maybe those people have some kind of evidence about things that can harm even Putin himself. Or they might know something about Putin's financing systems especially before he became president. 

And the comfortable solution would be for the Ukrainian army kills those people, who made dirty work for Vladimir Putin. Could the man who poisoned Boris Yeltsin be on the blacklist or kill list of Vladimir Putin? 

Things like Wagner Group are meant as a tool in the hands of Putin. That military company makes it possible to order dirty work without telling those things FSB. There is the possibility that the use of massive, nonprecise firepower is meant to hide robberies in that area.

The thing is that the Russian operation in Ukraine has been something else that Putin wanted. The Russian invasion of Ukraine was no surprise if we are looking backward. Kreml has introduced new weapon systems all the time. And then Putin shows that he wants to return to the Soviet Union. 

That could be meant to demonstrate the power of the re-established red army in the attack on Ukraine. And the result is a fiasco. The Russian losses are been quite big and we must remember that at the beginning of this conflict Ukraine had not all the weapon systems that it used to drive Russians out from northern Ukraine. The fact is that Ukraine needs more firepower to kick Russians away from entire Ukraine. But Russians don't have enough force to occupy the entire Ukraine. 

The benefit of this conflict is on the side of the Russian commander, who must not care about losses and civilian casualties. The thing is that the use of massive firepower that is not aimed is the thing that makes the enemy fear Russians. But the war crimes that Russians are made also make people fight harder. If Russians shoot the defenders anyway, they can sell their blood at the highest possible price. 

Could the purpose of those war crimes be that they are meant to make the distance between Russians and Ukrainians? In this hypothesis, the war crimes are authorized by the Russian high command. And another purpose could be to cause shame to those combatants that they will not tell things that they heard to non-authorized persons. 

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About the meeting between Trump and Putin and U.S support to Russia and the Soviet Union.

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There have been comments, that Trump was accepted the limitations of human rights in Russia, and makes brotherhood with dictators. But when we are going back to the Second World War there was the law, what was known as "Lending and Renting law". That law guaranteed that Joseph Stalin got military equipment from the United States during the Second World War, and USA delivered many military aircraft like Bell P-39 "Airacobra", A-20 "Havoc" and DC-3 to Soviet Air Force.


Also, some tanks and one Royal Sovereign class battleship were given by the USA and Great Britain, what delivered battleship for Stalin for the fire support role in 1944. That battleship returned to Royal Navy in 1949. That law actually supported Joseph Stalin to stay in power, and the question is, what the Soviet Union gave back for that equipment? Nobody ever asked, was this support necessary or did the United States government knew about the human right situation in the Soviet Union. But that was the Second World War and Western allies needed help, and Stalin was able to give that help in the form of the Second Front. And that was real after Hitler attacked the Soviet Union and the USA took the part to War after the Pearl Harbour Attack in 6. December 1941.


But when we are thinking about the supporting undemocratic government, the meeting between Trump and Putin is actually the very important thing, because Vladimir Putin is the very well known man, whose way to work we all know. And what we afraid in the west? There are persons, what have been out of the publicity, and who wait that Putin will someday divorce from the position of the power in Russia.


Those persons are same style men and women, who believe the Great Russian empire, and those persons might be very surprising actors if they would get the power. Putin himself is not the problem, the problem is the forces, what support him. When he got the power in Russia after the strange heart attack of Yeltsin, Russia got the president who had skills and relationships to crush the organized crime, but the work was left to halfway.


Putin crushed the street gangs, but he couldn't get the leaders of the organized crime to court. Those persons legalized their business and now they will sell the mobile telephones, and nobody ever can show them ex-mafia bosses. Putin Used KGB in that operation, and the peaceful streets were enough for people, who were tired of violence and corruption.


And the forces, what keep Putin in power are the very complicated thing. If some decisions of the people who they support are not pleased them, the punishment would be death. So if those forces want, that Putin will continue his career as the President of Russia, that man would not have a change, or he would become the disappointment, and that would cause the heart attack by potassium-chlorinate injection. And when we are thinking about Putin, he could continue his career quite long, and maybe he wants to become some kind of Brezhnev, who was many years in the power of Soviet Union.

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