Putin uses blunt terror tactics to influence peace talks

Every time the President of Ukraine goes to negotiations with Trump, Putin launches a large-scale attack on Ukraine so that Trump gets the impression that Ukraine has no cards. With these strikes, Putin demonstrates to Trump that Zelenskyy does not control the course of the war and cannot protect his country from the armed forces of the fascist federation.

This tactic of Putin's is maximally stupid and predictable. To break the unfavorable impression in Trump's eyes, only two simple things are needed.

"The first is to create an impression of strength before negotiations. Ukraine has conducted a bunch of successful operations. Ukraine has the Special Operation Forces, Main Intelligence Directorate, Security Service, and Navy capable of striking operations that weaken Russia and make Putin look like a clown."

The only thing missing is the understanding that timing also matters. And it would be good to have in reserve a couple of operations with attacks on objects on Russian territory and occupied lands, to carry them out before negotiations. 

It's very strange that so much time has passed, and we still don't use this resource for strengthening our negotiating position. It's right on the surface! If today we burned a couple of tankers, took down a couple of oil refineries, caused a blackout in Moscow, as Zelenskyy promised, Trump would no longer be able to say that we have no cards. Because we would have rubbed the old hag's snout in those cards! But no. 

But we don't do it—Putin does. And Putin gains the advantage.

"The second simple thing that lies on the surface is to knock out of Putin's hands his trump cards and reduce the effect of mass bombardments with rockets and drones."

For this, it is necessary to scale up air defense means capable of adequately responding to the increased capabilities of Russian missile forces and drones. Obviously, we are now at that stage of the war when the Russians have increased their capabilities to strike objects on our territory, and Ukraine has not been able to adequately increase defense and is losing the air.

Here we have a lot of PR and very modest final results. The head of Kyiv City Military Administration, Tymur Tkachenko, announced with great fanfare the Clean Sky program for Kyiv, but this night the sky was not clean at all, many people suffered who lost their health and property. Obviously, this program is not capable of protecting Kyiv from air attacks and looks beautiful only on paper.

I have written not once and not twice that Putin is a primitive and maximally predictable ded-moped. Any one-man rule worsens the quality of state governance and management decisions, and Putin himself and all his generals are degrading. Therefore, there is no problem understanding what Russia will do.

Unfortunately, our real problem is that at the decision-making level, Ukraine still does not have an understanding of how to counter this stupid tactic of the taiga führer. From negotiations to negotiations, we observe the stupid, predictable, and monotonous tactics of putler, but still cannot oppose anything to this. And his tactics work!

Although the answers to Putin's actions lie on the surface and they are accessible even to a non-specialist. And this is a real disaster.

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About the author: Serhii Marchenko, labor market expert, blogger, serviceman.

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