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Ukraine immediately violated the Easter truce
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Iran is so much better than Russia at the ceasefire game. What do you suppose Russia will do about this breach? nothing because by the time they ave complained the ceasefire will be over. Its not going change how 3rd parties see the conflict. Its not going to steel Russian resolve any further. All it does is make the Russian leadership look like fools who sacrifice people to maintain a moral superiority that nobody was questioning.
It's not an issue of moral superiority. Russia is not doing anything about the breach because it is on track to eventually win this war by methodically grinding down Ukraine's capacity to continue fighting. They do not need to escalate in any way, just maintain the current trend until its logical conclusion. Ukraine has spent the entire war doing this sort of provocations specifically to trigger an escalatory Russian response that the euroghouls on the sidelines can use to further escalate their own involvement in the war. Every time this happens nationalistic broenkors throw a fit for a few days and demand the nuclear annihilation of Lvov then it's just business as usual with the frontline slowly creeping westwards and tha AFU bleeding out more irreplaceable casualties. It's an ugly war.
Exactly.
But why even bother with the ceasefire then? Wouldn't it be better to just keep trudging along? I'm sure the Russian MOD would get way more clout by saying "we thought about offering a Easter ceasefire but they will just break it anyway." This just makes them look like chumps.
I can only speculate, but maybe it plays well domestically? Maybe there were calls for it from some part of the Russian public? Or from the church? I don't know. The Russian government does strange things sometimes.
I was especially impressed with Iran's supreme leader's statement about no one should be criticizing military activities other than top military members, so I kept quiet.
How is Iran better at the ceasefire game? I genuinely want to know because I am not as well-versed as I would like on either country.
Russia is using the cease fire as PR even when the PR space is saturated. Nobody is going to change their minds on the SMO because ukraine breached a ceasefire and they have no ways of punishing the breach of the ceasefire. Its a pointless exercise.
Look at how Iran is playing their ceasefire. They have the carrot and stick ready to be used. When the conditions were breached (israel kept bombing Lebanon) they took away the carrot (closed the strait). When usa sent a destroyer towards Hormuz they shook the stick and the boat turned around. They are using the ceasefire as a way reinforce the military gains they have made.
By saturated, do you mean that Western media is so set on being anti-Russia that they do not care about or notice Ukraine breaking the ceasefire? And thanks for the information on Iran.
Not just the media and not just the west. The entire information space is so saturated that nearly every individual in the whole world has an entrenched position on the war. The media plays a part but more importantly is that individuals choose media that backs up their world view. Anyone who is neutral at this point has to be militant about their neutrality because they get bombarded so much by both sides. Anyone who is anti-Russia will say this was justified or that it is fake news.
Ah I see, so everyone ends up being entrenched in the side they stay in, so this PR thing involving Russia is useless because either they already support Russia or they do not, with the ones that do not dismissing the ceasefire violation.