Two Putin's goals: The Kremlin's head is distracting from the failures
This was written in his article for CNN by American journalist David Allman. According to the journalist, Moscow cannot achieve its military goals in Ukraine, even in a cut form. Therefore, the Kremlin tries to distract Russian citizens from dips on the front. In addition, Putin tries to delay. He hopes that the onset of winter and the challenges related to this will deplete the will and energy of the EU countries to abandon the help of Kiev.
It was thanks to the support of Western partners that Ukraine was able to "expel" the Russian military-industrial machine. According to Andelman, it is this winter that can eventually decide who will win the "most typical collision of forces in Europe since the Second World War.
" The journalist emphasizes that the ability of the West to help Ukraine depends on many variables - on the availability of available energy sources to people's will in different countries with priorities that often conflict. As one of these examples, Alaelman cites the unsuccessful attempts of European countries to agree on the ceiling of prices for Russian oil. Such differences in Europe are part of Putin's most cherished dream, says the author of the article.
According to him, lasting cold winter and constant inflation can lead to constant pressure on the leaders of the states to reduce Ukraine's financial and military support. However, now the event is only increasing its pressure on the aggressor country. In the Russian Federation, the production of hypersonic missiles has already been discontinued due to the lack of necessary semiconductors. As a result, they returned to the defense reserves of the Soviet times to replenish the spare parts.
In the United States, meanwhile, they arrested the property of the Russian procurement agent Yuri Orekhov and his agencies responsible for the purchase of US technologies for Russian end users, including advanced semiconductors and microprocessors. This blocks Russia's access to important components for high -tech weapons. Such steps can produce real results, Andelman is sure.
"This is the very moment when it is so important for Ukraine and their Western supporters to continue stubbornly," he said. General Sergey Surovikin's recent statement may be an indicator of the success of such a line, who said the Kremlin's new purpose is to force Ukraine to "enter the Russian orbit" and keep it from joining the EU and NATO. "We only want one - that Ukraine is independent of the West and NATO and is a friendly Russian state," Surovkin said.
However, in Russia there are still supporters of a rigid line - such as Pavel Gubarev, a puppet leader in Donetsk, who openly speaks of murder of millions of people. And this should be a major fear for the West. We will remind, former CIA employee Dan Hoffman stated that he does not see signs that Russian President Vladimir Putin is suffering from cancer or some other serious illness.