Yes .a few possibilities!!!
2 possibles!!
1st and most obvious is it reunites the Russian people and surges his popularity
2nd , it sends mixed messages to Pol Pot America that Russia is in chaos and weakening when it’s not
3rd, it’s a huge military smoke screen to reconfigure the battlefield
It does nothing for uniting the Russian People.....the majority of whom oppose putins insane war.
Also does nothing for putins popularity......the majority of the russian people hate putin as well as his war.
Putin has led Russia down the wrong path ......aka throwing in with China out of desperation....the Russian People know China is not their friend.
How on Earth do you think it reconfigures the battlefield......there is no change in the war....except Ukraine is surging with its counter-offensive and if it achieves its goal of removing russians from Ukraine....the pressure on putin will increase.....as has been said ihe is a dead man walking.
Leaked internal Russian government polling recently indicated that
as few as one in four Russians may be in favour of the war in Ukraine. Analysts believe that the forced mobilisation of over 300,000 civilians and the
high level of casualties have all contributed to waning support for Russia’s war effort.
The polling, which also found that more than half the Russian people hope their government will enter peace talks, was reportedly conducted for the Kremlin’s Federal Guard Service (FSO) and published by the exiled dissident news website Meduza.
It’s important to bear in mind the source of this reporting and that obtaining accurate survey data one way or another
is notoriously difficult but the UK ministry of defence said the results were “consistent with a separate October 2022 survey [
conducted by the independent Levada Center] which found that 57% respondents reported being in favour of talks”.
Ret. Gen. David Petraeus comments on the failed Russian Coup