Pay attention to Mikheyev's words:
"It's certainly clear that what's happening is good news. It's drastically different from all we've seen before, . . .
"If you compare the rhetoric of Trump's team with Biden's rhetoric, it's worlds apart, . . . Now, there is no isolation, even from the American side."
He then referenced the Trump administration's stance on U.S. forces and NATO's Article 5, noting Hegseth's claim that U.S. troops would not be involved in a conflict with Russia, saying, "We should make this thought clear for the Europeans, now we can actually strike Brussels, London and Paris...We can forget about Article 5 and forget about Americans stepping up to help."
His aim here is to drive a wedge between Europe and the US, pitting them against each other. (Note the capitals named are not the ones closer to Russia - Helsinki, Tallinn, Stockholm - but are the ones where NATO power resides.) No different than what Stalin did between FDR and Churchill. I'm really holding out hope that Trump is baiting Putin, only to drop the hammer down later, fully unifying all of NATO against Soviet (yes, Soviet) aggression.
Let's see where the price of oil and gas is four weeks from now. Let's see if Russian losses continue at their current pace. And let's see if Ukrainian innovation (and Atesh) is able to wreak even more damage to Russian economic infrastructure throughout the rest of the country.
