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2022-06-11 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
The heart of the Hydra: A few words about decision centers
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Pavel Kukhmirov

[RODINANANEVE] Despite a number of successful actions of our army in the Donbass, in general, there is no point in denying that the war has stalled. The forces of Russia and the Kyiv regime have entered into a clinch, and the situation has not changed fundamentally for weeks. And now for months. However, something is still happening. For example, the supply of modern weapons systems to Ukraine from the United States and other NATO countries. For example, more and more "foreign specialists" and other "contractors" enter the territory. For example, the increase in Ukrainian military activity in other areas.

Literally, it has just become known about new incidents in Transnistria , which they are clearly trying to set on fire with completely understandable goals. But this, for now, is still trifles.

The barbaric bombardments of Donetsk, Makeevka, Gorlovka, Yasinovataya, Snezhnoye, Stakhanov and other cities of Donbass have begun again and are not trifles at all. According to some reports: with the use of the very modern weapons systems supplied by Western countries. And there is nothing surprising here. It's like in Brazilian football: if you don't score, they score for you. Marking time can have no other result. But Ukraine does all this for only one reason: because it can. Question: why can she?

Well, seriously: why? After all, Russia really has an overwhelming technological superiority over it. I will modestly keep silent about mobilization superiority, because it is a topic for a separate and separate discussion. But now it's about something else.

For a very long time, Ukraine has been promised strikes against some “decision-making centers”. Or rather, they promised. Now the promise is gone. As a result, creating in Ukraine a feeling of complete impunity not only for all possible terrorist attacks on Donetsk (and they are precisely terrorist, since they are inflicted on the civilian population), but also on the territory of the Russian Federation itself.

And this is just the beginning: it can be much more fun. This begs the question: why are these same decision-making centers not dealt with the same blows? In response, something unintelligible and unconvincing sounds, from the series "they all have already hidden" and "everything is decided for them in Washington."

No. This is complete nonsense.

Let's start with the fact that initially there was confusion in terminology. Their decision-making centers, perhaps, are in Washington. But the control centers in Ukraine. And they meant just that. Because decisions are made by people, and structures manage. And they were obviously going to “strike” not at incompetent or hostile elites (before that, in Moscow, alas, they had not yet matured all the more), but at the nerve centers of the state system. Here is the correct question. Whoever and wherever "made decisions", but everything is controlled by information and staff culture in any expression. Not only in the military, but also in many others.

And it is precisely on her nerve nodes that striking is absolutely real. And attempts to include "sarcasm" about this, they say, "where are they, these nodes", is completely out of place. These nodes themselves are known, as well as their addresses/passwords/appearances. What are they?

Well, firstly , since we are talking about "centers", then first of all these are data centers that manage large amounts of information. And above all, these are financial centers responsible for banking processing. Hitting them is almost a knockout. The modern state from this will simply begin to disintegrate into fragments. Inflict a couple of pinpoint strikes on the centers of financial and industrial groups in Kyiv and Dnepropetrovsk - the result will already be amazing.

Second , it's a connection. Mobile communications and the Internet of Ukraine still work like clockwork. And now it is precisely on them, in many respects, that even command and control of the troops is carried out (I know - I saw it), not to mention the civilian infrastructure of the state. And here, too, we are talking about data centers and servers of cellular and Internet companies. I'm not talking about state special communications. A blow to them is a blow to the nerve centers, which paralyzes.

Thirdly , information terminals of law enforcement agencies and other government departments. All the same servers and data centers. Hit them and the state administration will shrink, as if having received a blow to the solar plexus.

Well, and fourthly , these are military and civilian headquarters, which, in fact, are also information control centers. There are actually not very many of those. And those key people who are of critical importance in the implementation of management are even fewer. And there is no need to tell, they say, "we have no irreplaceable ones." You don't have it. And in such stories, they are still there. And the conclusion from the equation of each is a critical damage to the controllability of a large and complex system.

That's what they are, these control centers. Suddenly, right? This is the very heart of the hydra, which must be beaten, and not deal with nonsense with chopping off its heads, which instantly grow back.

But if we talk specifically about “decision-making centers” in the true sense of the word (that is, not about structures, but about personalities), then this is also an option. Which has never been neglected neither by the USA, nor by Israel, nor by Europe. Yes, no one at all. Including Russia - for example, in Ichkeria,
...following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the so-called Chechen Republic of Ichkeria evolved into the Al Qaeda-linked Caucasus Emirate, the umbrella group for the jihadi organizations in the North Caucasus...
where a lot of things were decided by means of personal cleansing of the elite of the terrorist quasi-state formation.

Much critical. I see no reason why the Dudaev elite is fundamentally different from the Bandera one. No, I understand that this needs a political decision. Well, I leave to the court of the respected reader the question of why it is not accepted.

Well, and finally . What I said above is no revelation. These are obvious things. But 100 days have already passed of what we are forced to call a “special military operation” (although what is happening has a simpler and more correct name), and this “obvious” has not yet been implemented.

Although much had to be realized already in the first hours of hostilities. Options for answering the legitimate question "why so?" just two. It's either incompetence or bidding. Well, rather, an attempt to conduct these auctions. So to speak, save yourself some room for maneuver. Or to be more precise: the opportunity to pass back.

Only here I will tell you one thing, guys: you do not have such an opportunity. And the sooner you understand (or accept) this, stop playing and start fighting seriously, the less lives will pay for the result.

And it is by no means only about the lives of the residents of Donetsk.

Pavel Kukhmirov is a writer and a former militiaman. He resides in Rostov, Russia.
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