After decades of global fear regarding the power of the Russian military, we have come to discover it all to be a charade.
Moscow’s might was a myth all along, it seems, with Hollywood to blame for at least some of it thanks to their Cold-War-era depictions of unstoppable Soviet super soldiers, brutish and frigid in frightening ways.
The Russian army has fallen so far in the pecking order of global superpowers that Ukrainian officials are now suggesting that they may even be able to take Moscow for themselves.
Thoughts are turning to the end of the Ukraine war in some European capitals and how “justice” is to be meted out to Russian leaders, with suggestions from top political figures in recent days ranging from war crimes trials to Ukrainian tanks parked in Moscow’s Red Square.
Military ambitions for how to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine took a considerable leap forward this week with comments attributed to Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council Secretary Oleksiy Danilov who spoke of “justice” in the form of troops marching on Moscow.
The remarkable comments from Danilov were reported in the British high-circulation tabloid The Sun, which claimed an interview with the Ukranian politician and relayed him as saying: “Our tanks will be on Red Square and that will be justice.
And then…
“We didn’t start this war. We didn’t call them here. They invaded our territory, killed our women, our children, the elderly and civilians.”
Russia’s military doctrine specifically cites threats to the motherland as a justifiable cause for the preemptive use of nuclear weapons, making this particular rhetoric all the more worrisome.
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