Putin Has Turned Russia Into a Paper Tiger
Paul Craig Roberts
Russia’s Ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, yesterday said the West’s reaction to Ukraine’s deadly drone attack on a Russian school for children indicated the “moral failure” of the West.
“If the suffering of a child can be used against Russia, it immediately becomes an international scandal, but when children die because of the premeditated actions by the Kiev regime, the tragedy disappears. This is moral failure and complete disgrace.”
I agree, but notice the evasion on Ambassador Nebenzia’s part. He blames Ukraine, but where do the weapons and perhaps the targeting information come from? They come from Trump and the NATO countries of the European Union and from the UK. But he ignores these facts and limits the blame for the atrocity to Ukraine.
Why does he ignore the relevant facts? Because he doesn’t want to lose his position by bringing Washington into the picture as participating in the May 22 massacre of 21 Russian children (at last count) with 40 injured. Amb. Nevenzia is constrained in what he can say by Putin’s preference to negotiate with those devoid of moral principle instead of winning a war for Russia.
More Russians will die for no other reason than Putin refuses to win a war for Russia.
Russian officials and media have made a big fuss about Western presstitutes not responding to invitations to see the ruins of the attacked school. But why did the Russians think that anyone in the West would see this as an atrocity when Washington and Western governments–and Putin– have accepted the genocide in Gaza, and the 170 school kids killed in Trump’s strike on a school in Tehran.
There is something seriously wrong about the way the Russians understand the situation. The Russians are trying to get sympathy from their enemies ! This is nonsensical.
The Russian kids were killed because the President of Russia and his entourage in the Kremlin are in the fifth year of Putin’s refusal to win a minor conflict that Russia could win in a few hours.
What is Putin up to? Why does he sacrifice Russian lives to his refusal to win a minor conflict that in Soviet days no one in the West would have dared to start.
Why has Putin turned a formidable military power–Russia–into a paper tiger ?
Russia Will Pay a High Price for Putin’s Refusal to Win a Minor Conflict
According to Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu, NATO countries are practicing scenarios for attacks on the Union State of Russia and Belarus.