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Nov 9, 2022·edited Nov 9, 2022

I have some bad feeling about it because the strongly patriotic Regnum Information Agency leadership was just replaced by a pro-Putin liberal (imagine that) parachuted from Putin's Human Rights Council.

That person is a big fan of "western values and culture", while seeing Russia as primitive and backward.

It could be media field preparation for giving up most of Kherson region as part of a deal with the West to freeze the conflict and taking out beforehand the inevitable Putin's critics from the right/ the patriot side.

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If Putin & Co. are genuinely trying to win this war - something that I very much doubt, since the Russian government is slavishly supportive of the globalists' nascent World Government in the form of the Bill Gates-controlled WHO - then they are absolutely incompetent militarily.

If on the other hand the Ukraine war is only a theatrical performance laid on by the global cabal to 'justify' pushing energy prices ever higher to destroy European and Western industry and living standards in preparation for the Great Reset, then Putin & Co.'s job is nothing more than to keep the war going, without achieving anything other than giving Ukraine occasional victories to keep the funding flowing into Ukraine (and then out again, into the offshore bank accounts of Ukrainian and Western oligarchs and politicians) - if that is the case, then the utterly chaotic mess that Putin & Co. have got the Russian military into in Ukraine makes perfect sense.

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That's is it, now officially Russia says goodbye to Kherson. This is happening with the background of Russian foreign ministry chomping at the bit trying to get negotiations with Ukraine going, saying they set not preliminary conditions to come to the negotiating table. Putin meanwhile signed a decree today, something about defense of traditional values or to that effect. Does he think this is going to negate the effect of the largest military retreat since the times of WWII? Overall mood in Russia is very dark. Many openly call Putin and his liberal clan traitors. Beside being another sign of the military and political impotence that Russia has shown in this campaign, the main conclusion that I make from this action is a complete disregard by Russian authorities of the public opinion that weighed heavily on the side of defending Kherson only recently declared as part of Russian Federation after a referendum. They are still convinced that people will remain silent and are going to swallow another blow to the Russian national pride. Time will tell what is going to happen, but in my view militarily unjustified retreat from Kherson is going to become one of the largest contributing factors to destabilization of internal situation in Russia.

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I agree with most of the views expounded here.

Just, the Russians giving ground in northern Kherson oblast (characterised as the "right flank" here) was not entirely devoid of military consequences: Russians gave up depth, put Khakovka and its dam-bridge within range of the enemy's traditional artillery, possibly exposed their flank on the eastern bank of the Dnepr, between Energodar and Dudchany, to the AFU if it felt adventurous enough to cross the river... All these disadvantages, in order to shorten the line a few kilometers?

The reality is they had to withdraw because a series of Ukrainian attacks infiltrated their positions behind the Ingulets river.

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