{"id":601092,"date":"2023-12-14T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/putin-schools-washington-on-how-to-win-a-war-while-losing-an-army\/"},"modified":"2023-12-14T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T12:00:00","slug":"putin-schools-washington-on-how-to-win-a-war-while-losing-an-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/putin-schools-washington-on-how-to-win-a-war-while-losing-an-army\/","title":{"rendered":"#Putin schools Washington on how to win a war while losing an army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/12\/AP23346811892680-e1702424158642.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>            <iframe title=\"Audio Article\" id=\"instaread_iframe\" name=\"instaread_playlist\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" style=\"display:block\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin is winning the narrative war against Washington and Brussels despite losing the kinetic war on the battlefields of Ukraine. As we recently noted, it is indeed a \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/themessenger.com\/opinion\/ukraine-war-bizarro-world-russia-biden-nato-putin-zelenskyy\">Bizarro World<\/a>\u201d when it comes to 21st\u00a0century warfare. Losing is winning, and winning is predicated upon the American and European people falling for Russian disinformation and propaganda.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There was a time in our country when we dismissed our enemies\u2019 propaganda campaigns \u2014 think of Tokyo Rose\u2019s broadcasts during World War II or \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/simple.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muhammad_Saeed_al-Sahhaf\">Baghdad Bob<\/a>\u201d of the Iraq War.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>No longer.<\/p>\n<p>Candidly, far too many Americans have become gullible and are falling for Russian disinformation. Many simply economically profit off of it in the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> \u201cinfluencer\u201d ecosystem. Likewise, many of our politicians are capitalizing on Putin\u2019s propaganda because it fits their electoral platform and campaign and needs.<\/p>\n<p>The extent to which this is h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ening has truly become a national embarrassment. Collectively, as a people, we are allowing our country\u2019s national security imperatives to become subordinate to the national security goals of Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping. We have\u00a0warned\u00a0of its spread before. Moscow and Beijing\u2019s Manchurian candidates surround us and, knowingly or not, spew Russian and Chinese disinformation. Clearly, however, our warnings are going unheeded. <\/p>\n<p>This deep nationwide abyss has many root causes. Crass partisanship, to be sure, is a huge factor. But the Biden Administration also bears great responsibility for giving Putin and his <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>s the window of opportunity they need to win this war. The president\u2019s national security team \u2014 Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, and previously retired Gen. Mark Milley in his capacity as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff \u2014 collectively provided the president advice that has put the country in this position.<\/p>\n<p>Their collective fears of escalation have resulted in the very escalation they had hoped to avoid. We have witnessed this with Wagner mercenaries in Sudan and across the Sahel, with Hamas in Israel, with China\u2019s continued bullying of Filipino shipping in the international waters of the Pacific, and of course now with the Iranian-backed Houthis attacking U.S. naval forces and global shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It did not have to be this way, nor should it be. Ukraine has fought brilliantly and valiantly over the course of the 22 months of its war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his generals pulled off a masterclass in expelling Russian forces in and around Kyiv in the beginning months of Putin\u2019s \u201cspecial military operation.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Ukraine has survived the Kremlin\u2019s\u00a0weaponization of winter. It has successfully parried attacks against its electrical grid, grain storage facilities, and civilian population. And, perhaps, most incredibly of all, it has pushed Putin\u2019s Black Sea Fleet out of the Sevastopol Naval Base in Crimea, despite having no substantive navy of its own.<\/p>\n<p>In short, Ukraine is winning the war on the ground, but Washington and Brussels are on the verge of losing it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Socratic terms, what odds would we have laid on Ukraine winning if, at the outset of the war, a time-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>er had told us Putin would lose nearly all of his invading Russian Army as then constituted?\u00a0Nearly 100 percent odds, give or take a Russian nuclear escalation.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Yet that is exactly what has happened and continues to happen.\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us-intelligence-assesses-ukraine-war-has-cost-russia-315000-casualties-source-2023-12-12\/\">U.S. intelligence officials<\/a> estimate that Russia has essentially lost its entire original invading army \u2014 originally estimated at around 200,000 \u2014 along with another 115,000 for good measure. <\/p>\n<p>So why are so many American politicians buying into Putin\u2019s narrative that Zelensky and his generals cannot decisively win the war?<\/p>\n<p>We have now seen 315,000 Russian casualties in Ukraine and yet still, Biden and his national security advisors refuse to go for the win. Since Biden\u2019s trip to Warsaw in March 2022 when he professed Putin \u201ccannot remain in power,\u201d we have gone from \u201cdefend Ukraine for as long as it takes\u201d to yesterday\u2019s diluting it down to \u201cfor as long as we can.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Imagine Russia and its smaller-than-Italy GDP outspending the mighty United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even worse, Washington lacks the instinct to go for the win in Ukraine. Why are American politicians \u2014 Republicans and Democrats alike \u2014 willing to give Putin a win, even though he lost his army in the process?\u00a0This invites the question of what Biden\u2019s military advisors are telling him.<\/p>\n<p>We have long prided ourselves on being apolitical in our national security analyses. Our focus has always been on policies that best serve U.S. national security. But now the nation\u2019s zero-sum politics that are putting our country at risk and our servicemen and women in harm\u2019s way.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Unless you want Putin to win, the hard partisanship forming around this issue on both sides poses an existential threat to our country. Either Washington gets it together and unites around our common interest, or we risk living in a world controlled by Putin and Xi.<\/p>\n<p><em><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MCTothSTL\">Mark Toth<\/a>, an economist and entrepreneur, is a former board member of the World Trade Center, St. Louis. Col. (Ret.)\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JESweet2022\">Jonathan Swee<\/a>t served 30 years as a military intelligence officer and led the U.S. European Command Intelligence Engagement Division from 2012 to 2014.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. 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As we recently noted, it is indeed a \u201cBizarro World\u201d when it comes to 21st\u00a0century warfare. Losing is winning, and winning is predicated upon the American and European people falling for Russian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":601093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/12\/AP23346811892680-e1702424158642.jpg?w=1280","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[134344,73014,90482,133498,134351,71525,4975,134904,70289,73295,70868,73234],"class_list":["post-601092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-administration","tag-health-care","tag-house","tag-in-the-know","tag-morning-report","tag-national-security","tag-russia","tag-russia-ukraine-war","tag-senate","tag-transportation","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}