Putin Fires Entire Fleet Of Naval Commanders

Aww, isn't that cute. Vlad gets more and more like his hero Big Joe everyday.

It's the little things like this that prove even a narcissistic psychopath like Putin can have a soft side because, back in the day all these Naval Officers would have been fired ............................. right into a Gulag.

... or a mass grave, even.

Putin kicks his Naval Command to the curb because they didn't want to play his war games with NATO, hmm.

From what I'm hearing Putin was demanding the navy run operations to interfere with and intimidate NATO forces and the navy was not getting spare parts, fuel, or men and training to keep up the pace. So in a fine Soviet tradition the 'defeatists' were fired.

Hopefully that just means they lost their jobs and not their lives as in the good old days. That's unclear because too many of these captains, commodores, and admirals are currently unaccounted for.

It'd be nice if NATO could get a few of these guys to defect and give us some up close intel on what's going on inside the Admiralty building.

From what I'm hearing Putin was demanding the navy run operations to interfere with and intimidate NATO forces and the navy was not getting spare parts, fuel, or men and training to keep up the pace. So in a fine Soviet tradition the 'defeatists' were fired.

Hopefully that just means they lost their jobs and not their lives as in the good old days. That's unclear because too many of these captains, commodores, and admirals are currently unaccounted for.

It'd be nice if NATO could get a few of these guys to defect and give us some up close intel on what's going on inside the Admiralty building.
These are the refugees we should be admitting.

From what I'm hearing Putin was demanding the navy run operations to interfere with and intimidate NATO forces and the navy was not getting spare parts, fuel, or men and training to keep up the pace. So in a fine Soviet tradition the 'defeatists' were fired.

Hopefully that just means they lost their jobs and not their lives as in the good old days. That's unclear because too many of these captains, commodores, and admirals are currently unaccounted for.

It'd be nice if NATO could get a few of these guys to defect and give us some up close intel on what's going on inside the Admiralty building.
It sounds like Russian Naval operations are not 100% and Putin wanted to send the message that they were which his Naval Command refused to do costing them their jobs and as you said hopefully that's all.

"Refused" may not be the right word. I suspect they simply told dumfuck the truth that they didn't have the ships, supplies, and men to carry out the mission dumfuck wanted them to do.

We'll have to see if the new officers can magically cause a logistics chain to spring into existence.

Update: Some of those cashiered officers are being charged with official corruption and that means there will shortly be some secret trials followed by executions.

Even if that is the case we are very unlikely to hear about it, officially anyway.

Not much has changed from the "good old" days of Joseph Stalin, they will be given a fair trial and shot not necessarily in that order.

Putin likes it when his people refer to him as the Tsar, more like Tsar Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible).

On the RT website it doesn't even mention this.

From what I'm hearing Putin was demanding the navy run operations to interfere with and intimidate NATO forces and the navy was not getting spare parts, fuel, or men and training to keep up the pace. So in a fine Soviet tradition the 'defeatists' were fired.

Hopefully that just means they lost their jobs and not their lives as in the good old days. That's unclear because too many of these captains, commodores, and admirals are currently unaccounted for.

It'd be nice if NATO could get a few of these guys to defect and give us some up close intel on what's going on inside the Admiralty building.
Now, in the good old days, this is when the Germans would invade....right after their opponents had purged their officer class.

Then I wonder when the Germans will invade the USA?

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles ... itary.html

Germans are too busy learning to bow and scrape to Ba'allah these days to engage in any of their delightful old habits anymore.

Then I wonder when the Germans will invade the USA?

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles ... itary.html
... counted the number of Bimmers on your roads?

... counted the number of Chevyllacs, lately?