HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
(1/n)
#Putin's #Propaganda war on the home front must be going a lot worse:
via #KyivIndependent
"A Russian..., #YuryDashkin, commander of an air defense division, said, as 👉cited by the #Russian news agency #RBC👈 on May 25":
"The [president's] helicopter was effectively at the epicenter of the response to the...
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
(2/n)
...massive #DroneAttack."
As almost 1 million #Russian soldiers have fallen 2) in the infamous "#SpecialMilitaryOperation" in #Ukraine, and most likely most of the 57.5 million #RUS households having lost a relative or friend,
👉ageing #Kremlin strongman #VladimirPutin desperately tries to show personal engagement in the war.👈
👉Whereas...
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
(1/n)
...👉in earlier years, this alleged attack would have been portrayed propagandized as an "assassination attempt by #Ukraine,"👈 this message only focuses on the the alleged risk for the president 's life.
What is more, strategically speaking, #Putin seems to be losing it: the whole dictatorial state of #Russia is build around his person:
...
3)
https://www.helgilibrary.com/indicators/number-of-households/russia/
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
(5/n)
...👉who could he be so stupid to unnecessarily risk presidential #Dictator's life in a difficult-to-defend simple helicopter 🚁 in a war zone?
A "flying duck," in the age of the #DroneWars 4), so to speak.
And even if the pilot or others are responsible, why have they not been relieved of their command and arrested, possibly even executed?!?
...
4)
https://kyivindependent.com/ultimate-guide-on-how-drones-changed-warfare-in-ukraine/amp/
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
(6/n)
...👉Either way, the whole story, in my view, utterly backfires.
The question to be asked is, "who was the incompetent?!?" 👈
Needless to say that this statement also includes
1)...the responsible editor of this propaganda at the #Russian news agency, #RBC, who clearly did not think this through, *even if* the whole story were true, and...
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
(7/n)
...👉the #Russian general who allowed his gerontocratic commander in chief to be flown into a war zone👈--unless he wanted to succeed him?!?; but then, that attempt has failed, too.
Even more incompetence in the #Russian hybrid warfare aparatus.
Let's all remember...
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
(8/8)
...the brazen and astonishing failures incursion of the #WagnerGroup into #Russia of a few years ago.
The sign of further things to come? --That just might be the case.
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