#Putin's Christmas #ceasefire, which was announced today, fits well with his logic, in which #Russia acts on the good side of history and fights for justice. This is of course how he understands it. 1/4
But, moreover, it is also partly a consequence of Ukraine destroying the technical college in Makiivka on New Year's Eve, which resulted in dozens or hundreds of Russian casualties, most of which were recently mobilised. 2/4
Putin really does not want a repetition of that on (Orthodox) #Christmas Day. And we must not forget the noble publicity game: ... 3/4
in this war Putin feels like the "good guy", doing a good deed not only for himself and "brotherly peoples" of #Russia and #Ukraine, but also for the world, freeing it from American "hegemony" (and for him it is truly a pity that so few people understand that). 4/4
❗️Addition:
War correspondents appear to be shocked by the announcement of the ceasefire. No one really understands why such games of 'virtue' are at all necessary. Here we see another dividing line between the very pro-war camp and Putin.
War correspondents appear to be shocked by the announcement of the ceasefire. No one really understands why such games of 'virtue' are at all necessary. Here we see another dividing line between the very pro-war camp and Putin.
A number of these lines are already considerable: for example, over the scale of mobilisation, military tactics, personnel decisions concerning the Ministry of Defence, ...
the question of how fraternal the Ukrainian people truly are, and whether to wait for Ukraine to capitulate or to simply bomb them with everything possible to obtain rather the territory than "restore historical justice".
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