Russian President Vladimir Putin’s offer to Ukrainian forces in Kursk Region to surrender is still valid, but time is running out, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.
“It is still in effect,” he stated on Saturday in response to a question from TASS news agency. “Their time is shrinking like the Shagreen skin,” he added, a reference to Honoré de Balzac’s novel ‘The Magic Skin’.
Yes it certainly tickled some concepts of acquiring a 'skin' in the form of Western materiel and lol 'advisors', and the skin getting tighter with every use, so that the real entity is exposed once the skin is too small for comfort. It evokes he way the materiel is being hunted down in industrial quantities - enough steel to make another cathedral, prolly. And as shagreen skin process reduces the 'skin' of military might, it reveals the bravado and chest-thumping from chihuahua lib-lallies in the EU and NATO.
I am praying that Trump divests USA from this nonsense.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s offer to Ukrainian forces in Kursk Region to surrender is still valid, but time is running out, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.
Shagreen skin
Lots of mercenaries among the conscripts.
Wow, so Oscar Wilde ripped this concept off for the more famous “The Picture of Dorian Gray”.
I wonder if there is also a message that nothing is as it seems, what you are watching now has already happened, a la Wehrmacht in 1945.
In other words, we know what we are doing and WILL win.
Yes it certainly tickled some concepts of acquiring a 'skin' in the form of Western materiel and lol 'advisors', and the skin getting tighter with every use, so that the real entity is exposed once the skin is too small for comfort. It evokes he way the materiel is being hunted down in industrial quantities - enough steel to make another cathedral, prolly. And as shagreen skin process reduces the 'skin' of military might, it reveals the bravado and chest-thumping from chihuahua lib-lallies in the EU and NATO.
I am praying that Trump divests USA from this nonsense.
Shagreen skin! Perfectly fitting. Those erudite Ruskies!