Tactics

Things in Putin World continue to deteriorate. 

Last week there were arrests in the Fifth Directorate. 

 

This week there is continued turmoil in the upper ranks of Putin’s government.

Now it's official - Kommersant confirmed Gavrilov resigned (his detention is yet to be confirmed). Putin humiliated the director of the SVR, placed two FSB generals under house arrest and had Zolotov, the National Guard, to fire his deputy -- in the first three weeks of the war. 

Three independent sources report that the deputy chief of Russia's Rosgvardia (a unit of RU's interior army which has had tremendous losses in Ukraine), General Roman Gavrilov has been detained by FSB.  Gavrilov had also previously worked in FSO, Putin's security service.

Arresting generals is not a sign of either stability or strength.

And in further news spring arrives tomorrow - both here and in Ukraine.

Yes, spring. 

And as the frost goes out of the ground the vaunted Soviet mechanized conscript mob will be confined to paved roads.

The killers of civilian non-combatants and children will become targets of opportunity. 

I’m just a retired financial guy but none of this strikes me as rocket science. 

WTF was the Dick Head thinking?