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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe War in Ukraine Has Come Home to Russia
(Slate) The drone attack on Moscow early Tuesday morning showed that the war is real and near, not just for Ukrainians but also for Russiansa message that cant be good for Vladimir Putin.
At least eight drones flew over Russias capital in the wee hours, almost certainly launched by Ukraine (or perhaps by Russian rebels sympathetic to Ukraines cause). The Kremlin claims that air-defense crews shot down or electronically jammed all the drones and that the damage done to a few apartment buildings was caused by metal shards of the disabled airframes as they fell from the sky.
Even if this claim is true, it doesnt matter. The attack demonstrates that Russias skies are porous, that Russian civilians are vulnerable. This new reality disrupts the image that Putin has tried to fashion in Russias state-owned mass mediaan image that paints the war as something terrible but distant.
Just last week, as pro-Ukrainian militias tore across the southwestern border and fought for two days on Russian territory, Putin pretended nothing had happened. As the New York Times reported, Putin handed out medals, met the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, hosted friendly foreign leaders, and made televised small talk with a Russian judge about how Ukraine was not a real country. In public, he says next to nothing about the course of the war and betrays little concern about Russias setbacks.
Drone flights over Moscowcoming a few weeks after two drone strikes on the Kremlin itselfmake it harder for Putin to sustain this fiction. The attacks may have done little physical damage, but explosions were heard, and windows were rattled (a few were shattered). The psychologicaland potentially politicaldamage cant be dismissed. ..............(more)
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/05/drone-strikes-moscow-putin-narrative-ukraine-war.html
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The War in Ukraine Has Come Home to Russia (Original Post)
marmar
May 2023
OP
Doolittle Raiders over Tokyo, April 1942 were a similar psychological strategy
Tetrachloride
May 2023
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He has to know that Ukraine is capable of much worse. This was a measured action to put Russians ...
marble falls
May 2023
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Tetrachloride
(7,819 posts)1. Doolittle Raiders over Tokyo, April 1942 were a similar psychological strategy
marble falls
(57,013 posts)2. He has to know that Ukraine is capable of much worse. This was a measured action to put Russians ...
... on notice. There will be no excuse from Putin that he couldn't be prepared for what might happen next at any moment.
Putin should declare victory and march out of Ukraine in a victory parade.