Day 296
A big bucket of sand
The Economist dug the black hole of Ukraine-related bullshit a little deeper this week.
Officials close to Mr Zelensky are quick to point out that General Zaluzhny has not visited the front line. That, say the general’s defenders, is because the same officials have barred him from doing so. Some in the president’s circle would like to replace him with General Oleksandr Syrsky, who commands Ukraine’s land forces, over whose head General Zaluzhny was promoted last year.1
Officials? Advisors to officials? Operators? Maybe whoever wrote this bullshit doesn’t understand the difference.
The passage reminds of when one-time welfare recipient Diane Francis foamed for the Kyiv Post about Andrey Illarionov’s imagined Kremlin/Washington disinformation campaign to create a full-blown propagandized invasion threat one month before the blitzkrieg.2
This brings me back to the main conclusion of yesterday’s post3:
