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Kremlin TV Descends Into Screaming Match Over Putin's War Failures
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State TVs talking heads have tried in vain to paint a rosy picture of the Kremlins invasion, but the cracks are starting to show. On Thursday, with screens depicting dramatic images of demolished Mariupol flashing behind them, hosts of the state television show 60 Minutes, Olga Skabeeva and Evgeny Popov, tried to point out the positives. They noted that Russia promised to pay compensation to some Ukrainians from the affected territories10,000 rubles each, amounting to a mere $100 dollars.
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Political analyst Vitaly Tretyakov concluded: The situation is serious... We have to admit that there was no psychological breakthrough in our operation, where the opposing side would lose their will to resist... The resistance from the Ukrainian side is neither stopping nor weakening. Tretyakov pointed out that despite the Russian medias attempted depictions of Zelensky as a drug addict, he is being perceived by the West as a leader of a country that has been attacked. He also questioned the wisdom of liberating Ukrainians who dont seem to want to be liberated and vehemently hate seeing the Russian troops on their territory. Tretyakov noted the unwavering determination of Western leaders to squeeze the Russian economy by imposing punishing sanctions.
Host Olga Skabeeva was visibly rattled by the depressing realities brought to the forefront by Tretyakovs comments. She sniped, So you sprinkled the ashes all over your head, but what do we do now? Whats our plan? Everything is bad, nothing is working out? Skabeeva angrily questioned whether Tretyakov had anything to offer aside from criticism. After he pointed out that societies tend to get tired of any military campaigns rather quickly, Skabeeva argued, If youre tired, that doesn't mean that everyone else is tired. Visibly angered, she repeatedly shouted at Tretyakov, questioning his support for the Russian military and telling the pundit that his commentary has a smell of something untoward.
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In January, experts on the same show estimated that Russia could overtake the entire neighboring country in a matter of 11 minutes. Their current predictions have shifted from minutes to decades for the Russian armed forces to achieve Putins goals in his senseless war against Ukraine.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-state-television-descends-into-screaming-match-over-vladimir-putins-war-failures-in-ukraine?ref=scroll
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Kremlin TV Descends Into Screaming Match Over Putin's War Failures (Original Post)
Uncle Joe
Mar 2022
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(4,317 posts)1. So they are starting the circular firing squad
And they want to pay in rubles? Not a chance....and how about a million each to Ukrainian victims and I mean U.S. dollars, like in the world's reserve currency dollars!!!! The Russian elite became delusional with grandeur of a resurrected empire and Russia will now pay the price. Any hope for world integration for Russia has been set back by decades. The Russian people need to clean house.