pcr doesn't understand the putin hesitancy to fight this ukie war;

The latest news on the war front serves to introduce today’s column.

The Ever-Widening War

With Putin focused on useless “peace talks,” Ukraine (or Washington or NATO) attacked four Russian Air Force bases and destroyed a number of strategic Russian bombers. The BBC reports: 

“In an operation said to have taken 18 months to prepare, scores of small drones were smuggled into Russia, stored in special compartments aboard freight trucks, driven to at least four separate locations, thousands of miles apart, and launched remotely towards nearby airbases.”  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0r1jv0rn0ko 

If this is true, Russia’s strategic nuclear forces were attacked from inside Russia.  This seems to be a massive failure of Russian intelligence.

Curiously, the Russian English language sites, RT and Sputnik, have little to say this morning about the successful attack that Ukraine claims destroyed one-third of Russia’s strategic bomber fleet.  Instead, the news services babble on about the second round of peace talks.

There are also Russian news reports that two bridges inside Russia were blown up resulting in deaths and injuries.  https://sputnikglobe.com/20250601/bridge-collapses-disrupt-rail-traffic-in-russias-bryansk–kursk-regions-seven-dead-and-66-injured-1122163963.html 

It seems that Putin still does not realize that Russia is at war..........more......