The surrender of the remaining Ukrainian forces hiding in the bowels of the Avostal steel plant in Mariupol is just another brick in the wall of the sepulcher Russia is constructing for the Ukraine military and the Ukrainian Nazis (don’t forget Putin’s objectives–de-militarize and de-nazify). And what is Ukraine’s response? Pretend this is not happening. Nope, they are pushing the nonsense that this is an orderly withdrawal and a great victory. Looks like Ukraine has taken Baghdad Bob’s course on how to polish a turd (note–you cannot polish feces). In addition, Ukraine embarked on repackaged propaganda memes to try to distract the world’s attention from the havoc Russia is raining down on the Ukrainian army and its weapons depots.
First fake squirrel, an updated “news” report from Task and Purpose recycles an old lie with this headline–Ukraine is now using Russia’s own tanks against them.
As the war in Ukraine enters its fourth month and drags on, Ukrainian forces are getting new equipment in the form of Russian tanks. Mechanics in the city of Kharkiv have been repairing battle-damaged T-72 and T-80 tanks for redeployment. The New York Times first reported on the half dozen mechanics on Friday.
So they are trying to repair old tanks? Boy, there is a game changer. Just one problem–where are the tank crews for these old hulks? Fuel to run them is becoming a problem as well.
Then there is the challenge of deploying these tanks out in the open. The Ukrainians learned a hard lesson in the last few days when they attempted to launch a tank column at Russian positions in the western Donbass. Andrei Martyanov reports:
On May 14 VSU tried to counter-attack in Zaporozhskaya Oblast (in Russian). The result was totally expected: 24 tanks, 12 BMPs and around 100 VSU KIAs.
You can watch the video evidence at Andrei’s site. Just because Ukraine can repair and old tank and try to send it to battle, the tanks are not invisible and Russia’s control of the air and its electronic warfare capability makes a surprise attack very unlikely. Looks like Ukraine has another batch of 24 tanks to repair (that’s assuming there is anything left to fix).
The next faux squirrel unleashed on the media world is the claim that a coup is underway to oust Putin, according to American Military News:
The head of Ukraine’s military intelligence service said a coup to oust Russian President Vladimir Putin is already underway.
In an interview with Sky News which aired Saturday, Ukrainian Gen. Kyrylo Budanov touted the success of Ukrainian defenses against Russian invasion forces and predicted the war would reach a major turning point by August and be over by the end of the year. Budanov also said Putin is seriously ill with cancer and a coup to oust him from power is already moving forward.
Ukraine cannot endure anymore “successful” defensive stands like Mariupol or Popasnaya. I do not think Ukraine will be in a position to maintain defenses by August. The Ukrainian psyop keeps tossing jello at the media wall hoping something will stick. Is it cancer or Parkinson? Perhaps early Alzheimers. Ukrainian General Budanov is whistling past the flaming crematorium. Indulging a desperate fantasy that does not change the reality on the ground and in the air–Russian troops are methodically eliminating Ukrainian defensive positions in the Donbass and poised to encircle as many as 15,000 Ukrainian fighters in the vicinity of Severodonetsk.
Squirrel number three–Ukraine has seized territory on the Russian border:
With great pride, Ukrainian troops delivered the happy news to the President, Volodymyr Zelensky, for having succeeded in reaching the Russian border, Monday (16/5/2022).
Ukrainian troops fighting in the north of Kharkiv claimed to have succeeded in liberating villages there from the Russians.
In a video released by the unit, Ukrainian troops can be seen carrying blue and yellow pegs to the Russian border line.
Planting a blue and yellow post in the middle of an isolated forest as proof of conquering the Russian border is laughable. If Ukraine hit an actual Russian border crossing defended by Russian border guards I would readily concede that is a bold, credible claim. That has not happened. It is akin to me walking into the nature preserve behind my house (a heavily wooded area that is inconsequential to the safety and security of my community) and declaring it Larryville.
All of these media squirrels are meaningless gestures ginned up by the Ukrainians psyop warriors to divert attention from the disaster at Avostal and the bad news flowing from the Donbass.
One final data point. Russia hit a Ukrainian military base–Desna–46 miles northeast of Kiev with a missile that hit a barrack and left at least 250 Ukrainian soldiers dead:
Russian is communicating with explosives, not squirrels.
With all those ridiculous pro-Ukrainian propaganda inundating the global media, I’m starting to wonder why China isn’t doing more to help Russia out with their PR war if China is really willing to help Russia as everyone claims?
With all the money and influence China has on the entertainment and the media industry, they could have forced the global media, especially the Western media outlets to squeeze out some pro-Russian coverage on this Russo-Ukrainian conflict. China looks more like a fence sitter to me than Russia’s eager partner.
china already covered Russia on the economic front , making their alliance stronger and neutralize any western economic shenanigan against both russia and china. on fools and TROLLs constantly yammer this ‘china is not doing anything for russia’
it is the same old ‘china will bak stab russia and steal russian lands’ fantasy imagination conjured by western trolls , making up amateurish stuff to give impression china x russia alliance are not strong
again , western people instead of LEARNING the facts they prefer to MADE UP narrative and spread it as gospel.
this is why the west will lose in the end , the victory on narrative front is meaningless if the ground reality totally go opposite direction
Have you not noticed how msm media is controlled by the west? Even China is no stranger to constantly fighting western propaganda against it.
MSM is not controlled by the West. It is controlled in the West. The question is who is controlling it
Good point.
I mean, even we heartland Americans can’t good publicity in ‘our own’ country. Why would anyone suspect that foreign powers like China and Russia would find it easy to do so?
China is culturally and historically not a great warring power. It’s a trading nation.
In the past 1800s the Sikh Empire successfully stopped China taking Tibet at the request of the then Dalai Lama and kept Tibet free until the King died and the Brits and Indians again attacked and finally win against the Sikhs in 1849. Once Brits left and Sikh Empire ended China took Tibet from a weak India. See sino-sikh wars.
In context. Sikhs number 25mn today. Chinese 2bn. That said the Sikhs did also hold of the Brits and their Indian forces for 200 years and were incredible fighters and strategists.
So Chinese don’t have a great military history to call on like eg Sikhs or Russians etc.
Taking on NATO indirectly even is a big psychological hurdle for them. They are also far more economically exposed than Russia.
I am sure they are preparing but they are not a nation with a long and deep war wining history especially against great armies of the world.
You have some good points and I agree a great deal with a lot you said. But may I remind you that China entered into the Korean War against NATO in the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir. And would have completely destroyed the West if their soldiers had not of froze to death in that winter’s storm. NATO was very lucky the Chinese ran into horrible weather. Otherwise there would not be a South Korea nor a NATO Army.
I’m not an expert but I presume that the Russians not only don’t care about PR presentations in the collective west but may well encourage it. Let the enemy play their little PR games while continuing to lose badly.
I presume the info available to the public in Russia and the Russian language elsewhere is very different. Much more accurate.
While I would use deadly force to subdue them, eternal hell will not change them. The previous punishments of Nazi’s did not prevent this outbreak. Therefore, wishing them eternal pain is merely sadistic, without merit.
Therefore, capitalist,
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That in the course of justice none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy,
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy.
The whole UKROP strategy is directed into their PR propaganda effort and not for victory on battlefield. Every single event are elevated into nonsense and proganda lies to smear russia , Bucha massacre fake news , Ukrop rocketing their own civilians and blaming it on russia , Ghost of kiev , Snake island heroes , River Crossing massacre , Kharkov etc
and the obvious ‘ukrop take town from russia , dead russia everywhere’ nonsense , every single one..
and yes i agreed with larry , the desperate PR of showing few infantrymen carrying sticks and planting it in russian border is beyond stupid , as if the UKROP think western public so guillible to believe such charade.. wait they are correct the sheeple in the west are fools and stupid..
Long live the glorious People’s Democratic Republic of Larry! Long live Larry the God Emperor! Squirrels of the world unite!
🙂 Dito. I was planning my next get away to Larryville to celebrate. It’s got to be a cool place to visit.
Well,…. “has taken Baghdad Bob’s course”….. Nicknamed Comical Ali.
Honestly, this is kind of feverish news.
What kind of mechanic are they …….. if they were army tank mechanics, if they were currently deployed in the army.
I have several colleagues who own tanks. Centurion, Tank-68, M-113, M-109 usw.
Here in Switzerland you get them from the army for free…… because disposing of the tanks costs a lot of money…… only not everyone gets them, you have to be able to prove that you have space and land for the things.
They are always well maintained when they come, but if there is damage…… you have a huge problem, because nobody has a tank workshop and not 50 men who can repair it in the field.
One colleague has a crane tank….. in case something breaks.
Nevertheless, you then have to look for a tank mechanic to be able to repair the damage.
And even for them it’s always difficult…… to lift the engine out of the tank…… everything is always tons heavy and there are a whole range of tools that you only need for tanks.
Well, I’m amazed that the Russians don’t salvage slightly damaged tanks themselves, don’t blow them up.
And if that’s not possible without blowing it up….. you can quickly smash the optics and other things…… that quickly makes them unusable.
Normally you always have an explosive cartridge in the tank…… especially for the cannon.
It’s probably just good news…..for the upcoming holiday on May 29…..the “Kyiv Day”.
The pych ops guys are beginning to lose the narrative. Comments below articles in MSM show more people are reading more broadly and looking stuff up. Inconsistencies are being noticed.
This is actually the point in the war that the public begins to wake up.
This is when they escalate. Or move on to a new war somewhere else. Taiwan, maybe?
They need to keep this fantasy going just long enough to get that $40 safely into everyone’s Liechtenstein bank accounts prior to the Great Escape.
The media is fully invested in the fantasy and can hardly shift gears now.
You left out the 4th squirrel, the squirrel who got away, Ret. Col. Mikhail M. Khodaryonok who appeared on Russia’s “60 Minutes” talk-show program on the Rossiya network who made the following interesting points:
“First of all I must say, we shouldn’t take information tranquilizers.”
“We are in total geopolitical isolation and the whole world is against us, even if we don’t want to admit it.”
“We need to view one million well-armed Ukrainian soldiers as a reality for the coming months. We need to take it into account that the situation for us will frankly get worse.”
“Don’t engage with saber-rattling with missiles in Finland’s direction. It actually looks quite amusing.”
Finally, the pro-Russian blogger on Telegram, Vladlen Tatarzky, wrote this about the Bilohorivka river crossing fiasco, “Until we know the name of the ‘military genius’ who put a battalion tactical group by the river and he doesn’t answer for it publicly, then there will never be reforms in the army”.
Cracks are clearly appearing in the Kremlin’s propaganda machine. Olga Skabeyeva was so angry that Col. Khodaryonok was finally telling the Russian people the truth about the war, that it looked like her head was going to explode. But after the slaughter at Bilohorivka, and the Ukrainian Army’s thwarting of the Russian encirclement of their forces in the Donbas, someone had to speak up.
Ron, on retired Colonel Khodaryonok I leave it all in the words of Andrei Martyanov:
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/05/larry-johnson-and-hyperbole-mikhail.html?m=1
As expected, you missed the most important point. The Russian Government allows dissenting views on media outlets broadcasting in Russia. That is no longer true in America. Sadly. Khodaryonok is full of shit, but he’s entitled to be wrong.
Really? What about that law that the Duma passed sentencing anyone who speaks out against the “special military operation” to 15 years in prison? Why can’t the Russians call it a war? Why don’t they allow protests in Russia? And since when can’t we speak out here in America? I haven’t seen anyone from MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, OAN or Newsmax being arrested and sent to prison. Has anyone in this blog been arrested for expressing their views?
Don’t you find it amazing that Russians can actually get an opposing point of view in their own MSM? I mean, have you tried watching *our* 60 Minutes lately? Pure pro-NATO propaganda!
obvious troll posting lies and anti russia propaganda
this mean SONAR21 / LJ already under the crosshair and now targetted with astroturfer/hasbara/trolls who constantly post lies and FUD in here
the trolls are so obvious these days , they are low information trolls with basic hasbara 101 strategy and their content are so blatantly obvious only the most naive and stupid will fell for their lies
i assume some of these trolls are here from SST , after they praise SST & TTG ‘incrediblly objective analysis’ and bullly other commenters who got banned by Lang and TTG
I allow a few trolls. Gives you something to play with. Think of them as a ball of yarn and you are a bored feline eager to play with something while sharpening your claws.
So here is my conundrum…one news source or expert says one thing and others say or depict something different. I have many ex-military friends who are rooting for Ukraine and some for Russia….we’re all over the place and just cannot make sense out of it. I do know this…whatever the MSM says is probably false or propaganda…whatever the US Administration says is all BS. I am trying to critically think and analyze but I really think this is a situation where you have to be on the ground to separate fact from fiction. The Russian military no doubt has made some costly blunders but that happens–look at the 20 year fiasco (OEF/OIF) that was orchestrated by the most powerful military in the world (US)…that CHARLIE FOXTROT is epic. Another fact is that the US-EU NATOSTAN contingent cannot afford to “lose” this fight nor can Russia…to me that sets the conditions for something not good. For my part Russia should not rush to victory or they will pay a higher price but they don’t have all the time in the world either. The Ukraine should get to the negotiating table with Russia (US/EU be damned). History will tell the tale on this conflict and like always the narrative will be written by the victors whoever they may be.
could you explain what is ‘russian costly blunder ‘ ? or are you talking shit by parroting MSM endless ‘russian military lost against heroic ukrops’ nonsense ?
btw calling for ukrop to negotiate without US/UK indicate you are totally clueless on this matters , or you are pretending to be clueless
1. Russia (by their own accounting) has lost thousands of troops and a good deal of military equipment–I consider that costly. If you haven’t served in the military or served with them then the word “blunder” might seem odd…let me explain…combat is chaos–as soon as the first shot is fired “the plan” often becomes useless and both sides start reacting to gain the advantage. There is no doubt that both Russian and Ukrainian field commanders have made bad (blonder) decisions while under fire–it happens and it’s costly–that is war. If you think any military plan is perfectly executed from General ranks to enlisted ranks I don’t know what else to say to explain this to you.
2. This whole conflict (in my opinion) could have been avoided if the Ukraine would have negotiated with Russia instead of being persuaded by US/EU-NA
Maps don’t lie.
But the question is whether people can trust the maps.
One thing to note. The land Russia has taken in Ukrainie produced 75% of its GDP.
Ukrainie does not make sense looked at purely militarily. It only makes sense of you look at:-
– geo politics
– economics
– military
At the same time. So what happening?
– huge economic issues coming in West, Russian economy contracting by 10%, US trying to block Russian ability to pay out on bonds. The economic warfare from the West is a nuclear strike level. But Russia surprisingly standing
– can West take 6 months of this level of economic decline, yes, but they won’t tolerate it well. Can Russia, yes, likely to tolerate it better
– I think the absolute economic war particularly from BIS l, political and MSM venom stunned Russia a bit. The US is whipping other countries against them. Soon they will know who their friends are. But their be friends seem neutral not engaged, scared of West
– for the West their complete propaganda victory was something of a coup
– Militarily I think Russia is pacing this reasonably, they are re fitting their surveillance drones to carry 2 to 4 bombs and turning them into weapons, they are not over extending their short supply lines but they are also not sure what they will face, NATO boots, false flag, what are the West planning.
– Lugansk region almost entirely liberated. Dontesk 80% ish. Crimea all theirs with a land bridge. 75% control of ukr economy
– so getting all Donbas is close, Odessa a bit of a challenge, the rest they don’t want it they just need to degrade it
So let’s do a scale
Russia has achieved 70% of its military objectives. Boosted it’s economic capacity by taking 75% UKR economy and is better placed to survive sanctions than the West. People support war vastly. Plus capturing latest western tech.
West is on verge of serious civil and social unrest and economic decline. Military they are depleting their weapons. Europe is in serious trouble. US is divided and volatile. Public patience with assisting 404 while they suffer will run out. Public patience for another war is questionable.
America is going for war everywhere. Troops added in Africa, Asia, Europe.
This is not a world war, but it is the US government’s war on the world. They could very well lose everything.
Larry, you have probably seen this already but your take on it would be appreciated. I have mybown doubts on several of Scott’s points but love to hear your opinion.
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/scott-ritters-switcheroo-why-i-radically-changed-my-overall-assessment/
I think Scott is wrong. Just because the Russians are pulling punches to avoid killing civilians and destroying infrastructure key for civilian survival does not mean they are ignoring the threat. For example, they permit the towed howitzers to get into position before blowing them up.
I agree, just was curious to get your take on it. I think they are deliberately trying to limit the damage right here at the end.
I agree, Larry, in that I, too, discount Scott Ritter’s “revised” account of Russia’s ongoing Special Military Operation vis-a-vis the US/UK/NATO/EU proxy Kiev regime. His essential thesis, as best I can understand it:
Kind of hard to take that sort of speculative prognostication seriously. Scott Ritter would have done better to possess himself of a few more weeks — perhaps even another month — of patience before analyzing whatever challenges and goals Russia chooses to address once they have disposed of the current US/UK/NATO/EU-generated unpleasantness.
Excellent observation and written analysis. Patience was/ is required.
Russia is “grinding” down the Ukrainian forces while minimizing their casualties. Most ASTUE commentators are in agreement with that. Scott also minimized Russian interdiction of US/NATO weapons. I think he was hedging his analysis on the basis of the West expanding the war (as Gen. Austin crowed about) and consequently “radically shifted” his confidence in a relatively swift Russian “victory” or win in a shorter time-frame, but as a result of a “long”er war of attrition.
“Nope, they are pushing the nonsense that this is an orderly withdrawal and a great victory.”
The General Staff at GHQ in London have recycled Dunkirk.
Brilliant. And they have discovered that Dunkirk was run sub optimally. It would have been better if the BEF had been evacuated by the Germans to Kiel. Not by the British to Dover. I am sure that Sandhurst operations manuals are being updated to reflect this awesome insight.
Advance to the REAR!
I’m thinking that the Ukrainian generals, after what happened the past day in Mariupol, will see that surrender is now an option for them and will increasingly use it.
The Russian generals however, considering Col Lang’s history lesson, will continue to shoot their own troops for entertainment purposes. I’m wondering how that works, something like in the old Westerns where you make a man dance?
omg . i think col lang’s declining mental faculties showed his real self. while LJ explanined lang’s declining situation medically i believe the decline exposed his true soul , a bitter old man who want to be accepted by the neocons but was refused and humiliated. So he become bitter against the neocons but not necessarily against neocon goals.
That is why he sell his soul and honor and allow his name and site to be used by this ‘TTG’ as plaftorm for neocon IO , even at the cost of long term visitors and guests.
imagine if the whole ukraine scene was over , who will even bother to trust lang again , he lost his faculties and now lost whatever reputation he got.
That’s not accurate re the neo-cons. Pat was speaking out against them from the start. He was always a prickly personality but that negative trait has become more pronounced over the last year. Reality is going to give him a wake up call.
Many years ago, Pat Lang banned me from his website for repeating what my Depression-Era/WWII-Generation mother once said to me: namely that “Military intelligence is to intelligence as military music is to music.” Mr Lang said that he did not appreciate me “mocking” him. I replied by asking him what he had against military music, but he didn’t get the joke. Before that incident we agreed on many things, and he also published quite a lot of my poetry. But in the end, a thin-skin and wounded military ego ruled out any further participation by me in his “conversations.” No great loss from my point of view.
When the Russians win, the U.S. will refuse to acknowledge it, and insist that the Russians negotiate a ceasefire and withdrawal from Ukraine. Zelensky will refuse to sign the surrender papers, and he’ll act as if he’s the victor, dictating terms to Russia. Zelensky will be liquidated by the CiA/MI-6, or one of their assets inside whatever remains of the Ukrainian government. The Russians will be blamed for it, of course, and called “sore losers.” If not, Zelensky will be exiled from the Ukraine, and from Europe. He’s finished, in any case. The masses will believe that Ukraine won, and the whole thing will be forgotten by Christmas. If not sooner.
zelensky will be kept safe by US/UK minders and will have the same fate as that disgraced georgian tie eater and the fake venezuelan leader ..
he still have his uses , but i can foresee western public will loath him as he was everywhere and over promoted in every nook and cranny of the western world. never underestimate the western public to do 180 for every idol foisted on them
https://freewestmedia.com/2022/05/14/french-former-marine-returns-from-ukraine-shocked/
Speaking to French radio station Sud Radio, Adrien Bocquet said he had witnessed “a lot of war crimes“. All those war crimes were committed by Ukrainian soldiers and not by Russian soldiers, he pointed out. Bocquet is therefore enormously alarmed that Europe is sending weapons to Ukrainian neo-Nazis. They wear all kinds of Nazi symbols on their uniforms. They do not hide these symbols. What is more, they boast about them, he said.“I worked with them and gave them medicine. Do you know what they said? That they would skin Jews or blacks if they had the chance.” This certainly does not align with the mainstream narrative of saving “democracy” and “our values” in Ukraine.
There’s more if you go to the link.
Larryville – LOL.
Thanks for the always-interesting updates. It’s been nauseating to see Zelenskyy treated like an Oscar-nominated ingenue, nauseating to see Pelosi and McConnell prancing around Kiev, nauseating to see so much US treasure being redistributed among corruptocrats here and abroad. But short attention spans aren’t always a bad thing, and I have a feeling the American public will tire of the Ukraine drama and will pick up their remotes and change the channel before too much longer. Time will tell.
Bidens Ministry of Truth hardly lasted any longer than CNN+.
Never underestimate the power of brutal ridicule.
I assume Scary Poppins will land a spot at MSNBC, with an audience of several.
the dept are still there , the incredibly stupid girl was fired. seem like she was the clown version to gather ire and hate from people. Once this facade removed and public rejoiced , this will still exists in more confidential form of information control.
just like how some covert agencies currently exists in western worlds have their existence labeled top secret , even their name
For all the people here wondering about Scott Ritter, be aware that he’s a somewhat suspicious character. I give him full credit for what he did in Iraq back during the Bush Admin, but he’s since been busted more than once for pedophilia, so the system definitely has kompromat on him. So if his analysis starts to go haywire, it just might not be a simple mistake on his part.
no ritter was busted by a federal sting , not by pedophile illegal activities
however , that just the tip of iceberg
possibly the relevant intel agencies have real footage of ritter doing the illegal activities and now holding it over him.
That thought has also crossed my mind. One way or the other, I don’t revere him quite like I used to.
As far as finding a few tanks to “repair”. Seems to me that not getting them broke to begin with is a better starting point.
Speaking above of Mr Scott Ritter and his earlier analysis of the Russian SMO in Kiev-regime-occupied territory, he did use an interesting animal analogy: “going gopher” to characterize the US/UK/NATO/EU military “strategy” over the past eight years. Now you, Larry, introduce the “squirrel” as animal avatar exemplifying the propaganda narrative communications — or perception management — of the “combined west” which hasn’t done so well on the actual battlefield. Please allow me to suggest yet another zoological metaphor, this one representing the Russian military strategy. I have in mind the Burmese Python which I remember from my eighteen months in South Vietnam. If I can do the HTML tags properly, it looks something like this:
Every Sunday a bedraggled and bored group of us US Navy advisers would assemble in a circle while a shipmate took his pet Python out if its ammunition-crate home and placed it on the ground. Someone would toss a duck into the circle whereupon the terrified fowl would simply freeze. The snake slowly crawled over and wrapped itself around the bird; crushed the life out of it; and took its own sweet time swallowing the meal. After the show, my shipmate placed the engorged snake back in its ammunition crate, which had stenciled on the side, in large block military lettering: SNAKE, BIG FUCKING.
I don’t know if the Russians would appreciate my attempt at animal analogies, but somehow this one seemed at least passably plausible. Best I could do from my subconscious trove of sick and bitter memories.
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Good article but you would have made a better point if you had used chasing rabbits instead of chasing squirrels. The analogy of chasing rabbits goes way, way back and is attributed to bird dogs, pointers and setters, who go off chasing rabbits instead of sticking to the business of finding coveys of quail. It came into use as a term to describe someone, usually a teacher or instructor, who goes off on tangents instead of sticking to the lesson. I think I first heard it while going through Air Force technical training in 1963 but it might have come from high school.
Chasing rabbits is a better analogy because squirrels will run up the closest tree and the dog will go on but rabbits will head for the nearest cotton patch and the dogs will go off chasing it, which is what is happening with the US “intelligence” agencies and the western media, with the rabbit they’re chasing being the BS put out by Ukraine.
Good article but you would have made a better point if you had used chasing rabbits instead of chasing squirrels. The analogy of chasing rabbits goes way, way back and is attributed to bird dogs, pointers and setters, who go off chasing rabbits instead of sticking to the business of finding coveys of quail. It came into use as a term to describe someone, usually a teacher or instructor, who goes off on tangents instead of sticking to the lesson. I think I first heard it while going through Air Force technical training in 1963 but it might have come from high school.
Chasing rabbits is a better analogy because squirrels will run up the closest tree and the dog will go on but rabbits will head for the nearest cotton patch and the dogs will go off chasing it, which is what is happening with the US “intelligence” agencies and the western media, with the rabbit they’re chasing being the BS put out by Ukraine.
I bet you are singing a different tune now the tide is shifting! Slava Ukraini!
Oh Goody. A Kool Aid drinker. Russia is going to run out of missiles any minute now. Tell you what. Hold your breath until they do.