Ritter Quietly Drops Claims That Moscow Will Take Kharkov, Odessa or Kiev
Putin wants to let people down gently.
This is kind of a big shift in the narrative that we have incoming. ZAnon is scaling down the lies. This must be a prelude to some sort of drawdown.
There are some factors to consider:
The new Defense Minister is clearly there to cut costs and scale operations down*
Putin keeps offering more and more conciliatory peace terms
Peskov routinely speaks out against any talk of mobilization and …
ZAnon propagandists have declared that Kharkov if now off the menu
We’re reading tea leaves here, I realize that, but it would be interesting if this augers a serious scale down in operations and that the clock is running out for Putin faster than we anticipated.
*as proof of this claim, Belousov came out recently and announced that Russian solders would be home soon. Sure, if you live in lalaland, this could be interpreted to mean that TOTAL ANTIFA VICTORY!!! is only two weeks away. But, assuming that you haven’t lost your mind yet, the statement makes more sense as a slip-up hinting at a planned scaled down in operations. Here:
What an interesting video. Belousov says that people, and that is the military fighting Bandera, will soon begin to return home. Why will they start coming back? Victory is as close as the moon. This means Belousov knows something. What could it be? Apart from the shameful agreement [peace proposal], as a result of which a huge number of Russian cities will remain under Western Bandera occupation, nothing comes to mind.
So there you have it.
One thing to look for is the 180 degree turn in expectations from the people who follow the hitherto triumphalist propaganda line. Yesterday, Odessa was awaiting liberation. Tomorrow, well, fuck ‘em I guess — they’re probably Nazis too!
Scott Ritter announced that Kharkov and Odessa were off the menu and unnecessary for total Kremlin victory anyway yesterday.
"Russia doesn't have ambition to take Odessa, Kharkov..."
In the video, he also lied and claimed that Moscow had declared Crimea part of Russia in the Istanbul peace deal. This is literally the opposite of what was contained in the document. A very bold lie on Ritter’s part that will go unchecked because his audience has outsourced their critical thinking in favor of religious faith in religious-political prophets instead.
Let the record show that until very recently though, Ritter was claiming that the marines were preparing to storm Kharkov.
Is there any mention of what happened to this phantom strike force and their plans to storm Kharkov? Nope. Ritter knows that his audience is composed of cognitive goldfish and ideologoyim who will believe in blatant lies so long as they believe these lies serve a higher truth and/or affirm their moral goodness in the process.
I don’t even think that most of his audience will be let down when they finally figure out that Moscow wants to freeze the conflict along the current contact lines, more or less. This is because they are in an ideological cults and one of the key defining characteristics of cults is their demand that members forsake logical thinking in favor of faith-based religious thinking where belief in absurdity is rewarded and logical thinking is derided as being “Satanic” or “Nazi” or “CIS-normative” or whatever. But still, my abysmally low opinion of these people aside, I am sure that some of them will experience some cognitive whiplash over these developments.