Ukraine's Security Service destroyed a Russian Tu-95 strategic bomber 800 km from the border, used for missile attacks on Ukraine, President Zelenskyy reported.
We all are, but I think it’s because politics sucks in the same bullshit way everywhere. Everyone can see it is almost certainly an error. What we can’t see is whether it was a forced error, an unforced error, or some 5D chess move that won’t make sense until some point in the future. Personally, I think it was a forced error – I think there are people (probably not Zelensky himself) who would like to see either Ukraine or Zelensky or both fail, some of them are in Ukraine and some of them aren’t, and they all have ways of putting pressure on the government in various ways to make these kind of terrible decisions often by putting them in a position where the alternative would be worse.
There is still hope that he may be able to walk it back with some 5D chess play, maybe he’s got another position he needs Fedorov in, maybe it’s something secret, maybe he’s even ready to step down from politics and is setting Fedorov up as a potential successor… but really who the hell knows at this point. The fog of war is thick around this one and there’s obviously a lot of political maneuvering going on behind the scenes. Politics sucks. Being forced to play politics sucks even more. War, unfortunately, doesn’t always fully exempt you from having to play politics, sometimes it makes the politics even more important, and even more painful.
We all are, but I think it’s because politics sucks in the same bullshit way everywhere. Everyone can see it is almost certainly an error. What we can’t see is whether it was a forced error, an unforced error, or some 5D chess move that won’t make sense until some point in the future. Personally, I think it was a forced error – I think there are people (probably not Zelensky himself) who would like to see either Ukraine or Zelensky or both fail, some of them are in Ukraine and some of them aren’t, and they all have ways of putting pressure on the government in various ways to make these kind of terrible decisions often by putting them in a position where the alternative would be worse.
There is still hope that he may be able to walk it back with some 5D chess play, maybe he’s got another position he needs Fedorov in, maybe it’s something secret, maybe he’s even ready to step down from politics and is setting Fedorov up as a potential successor… but really who the hell knows at this point. The fog of war is thick around this one and there’s obviously a lot of political maneuvering going on behind the scenes. Politics sucks. Being forced to play politics sucks even more. War, unfortunately, doesn’t always fully exempt you from having to play politics, sometimes it makes the politics even more important, and even more painful.