Russian generals not interested in calls from Gen. Milley
Gen. Mark Milley, the Pentagon swamp creature who brought us the Afghanistan pullout and turned the U.S. military focus to "white rage," doesn't seem to be able to get Russia's generals, now bombing Ukraine, to return his phone calls.
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The Post reports focus on the potential war risk, including nuclear conflict, that comes of it. But it's baffled as to why this could be happening, resorting to quoting a few experts from lefty institutions at the bottom of the piece....
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It misses some of the big ones, though, one of which is the matter of contempt and how much of that the Russians have for Milley (and his wokester U.S. defense secretary, Lloyd Austin).
After all, Milley's signature achievement has been the botched, chaotic, mal-planned, militarily disastrous U.S. pullout of Afghanistan, which left America's military reputation in ruins and effectively negated the U.S.'s decades of sacrifice in blood and treasure. Milley is still on the job, of course, un-fired and un–drummed out of the service, so the incompetence now associated with American military leadership is unlikely to change any time soon. Russia's military establishment had warned that the U.S. pullout plan would lead to disaster back in April 2021, and sure enough, it did. Milley's pullout was so bad that it made the orderly Russian pullout from the country back in 1989 look positively good in comparison.
How could the Russians respect a guy like that, or, more importantly, fear him? Much easier to just dismiss his phone calls.
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Well, the Russian generals are busy fighting and losing a war and dealing with a paranoid Putin so they have a lot on their plate. Milley seems to think it is his job to assure adversaries that the US is not going to war with them and I suspect the Russians have already assumed that calculation when they went to war with Ukraine.
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