pcr wants the putin to run a blitzkrieg because he doesn't think the ruskies are going after it all;

Note:  My readers know that I do not trust the Western media to report anything correctly.  I do not say that the Telegraph article is credible.  I say it is the new narrative that as Russia is on the ropes Putin can be coerced into a cease fire and thereby no negotiation is necessary that addresses the root cause.

How Much Longer Can Putin Ignore Reality?

Paul Craig Roberts

Russia’s President Putin should read The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli and ponder the famous statement that “it is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.”  Putin’s problem is that he is neither loved nor feared.  

Western propaganda has made him unloved, and Putin himself has made himself not feared. President Trump now mocks Putin’s Russia as a “paper tiger.” Putin after four years of conflict hasn’t won a war he should have won, as I have said so many times and as Trump now says, in one week. 

Having failed to fight for a quick victory and to enforce redlines, Putin has relied on announcements of new super weapons to substitute for the lack of response to ever-worsening provocations that Putin’s never-ending war continues to produce.  Having backed down in the face of every provocation, Putin has squandered the Russian deterrent.  

The Kremlin has been unable to prevent Trump and the West from defining the solution as a cease fire.  In an effort to coerce Putin into a cease fire, Trump has now placed sanctions on Russia’s oil customers, India and China.  Writing in the British Telegraph on October 26, Melissa Lawford, described as US Economics Correspondent, reports that Russia finally begins to buckle as it runs out of cards to play just as Trump turns the screws.........more............