We may never know how many bombers Russia actually lost but from the video footage the answer is certainly, “Plenty.”
Putin has to punish someone inside his security system for this and will. He also must wonder how in the name of Stalin were the drones delivered to the target site, and how long was this planned.
Who, Putin must wonder, planned this? NATO? The Ukrainians?
Why,Putin must wonder, why did they plan this? One war or the next war?
First Strike Capability is wounded, severely, and retaliatory strikes will be weaker.
Surely, Putin must think, NATO would not invade now, just because Russian defensive capability is diminished.
The Germans and Poles line up on the west, the Finns are a long car drive from Moscow, and NATO comes in from the Ukraine.
Know what’s more difficult than beating American intel being used by Ukraine? How about an American armor division heading to the Crimea backed up by the US Navy using that same species of intel.
And if Putin is as smart as he thinks he is, now, at this very moment, he cannot afford to worry about what he thinks NATO might do, oh no, for now he has to worry about what they are capable of doing.
If they can, is that something Putin will ignore?
Meanwhile, Ukrainian Intelligence seems to be flawless. Perfectly flawless, in fact.
And the Russian military has no way of replacing the bombers for quite some time.
The world of Vladamir Putin just got rattled, hard. Now, he must think of a way to save face, to make sure his security people are punished, make sure there isn’t another box of yellow jackets waiting near his oil fields, and oh by the way, he’s in a war with Ukraine.
President Putin might be on the way out. I could see that happening. What he must do as opposed to what he’s going to do might not look exactly similar.
But I think if there’s more attacks deep, very deep, in Russian territory, Putin is done.
Take Care,
Mike
