{"id":1956571,"date":"2023-06-25T14:07:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T18:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinken-calls-war-in-ukraine-a-devastating-strategic-failure-for-putin\/"},"modified":"2023-06-25T14:07:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T18:07:40","slug":"blinken-calls-war-in-ukraine-a-devastating-strategic-failure-for-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinken-calls-war-in-ukraine-a-devastating-strategic-failure-for-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinken labels Ukraine war a &#8216;disastrous, strategic blunder&#8217; by Putin."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblinken-calls-war-in-ukraine-a-devastating-strategic-failure-for-putin%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1956571&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Secretary of State Antony Blinken: Russians Questioning Premises of War in Ukraine<\/h2>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken has revealed that Russians are now starting to question the very foundations of the ongoing War in Ukraine. This comes after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinken-calls-war-in-ukraine-a-devastating-strategic-failure-for-putin\/\" title=\"Blinken labels Ukraine war a 'disastrous, strategic blunder' by Putin.\">recent uprising<\/a> by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nine-killed-when-russian-missile-strikes-apartment-building-in-ukraines-dnipro\/\" title=\"Nine Killed When Russian Missile Strikes Apartment Building in Ukraine\u2019s Dnipro\">private mercenary group<\/a>, the Wagner Group, over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken, speaking on ABC&#8217;s This Week on Sunday, described the war in Ukraine as a &#8220;devastating, strategic failure&#8221; for Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;So much that is beneath the surface has now surfaced. In terms of questioning the very premise for the war, in terms of questioning the conduct of the war, in terms of questioning what good this has actually done for Russia, and it\u2019s been exactly the opposite,&#8221; Blinken said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has been a devastating, strategic failure for Putin across virtually every front \u2014 economic, military, geopolitical standing \u2014 and fundamentally what it\u2019s done or not done for the Russian people,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Blinken emphasized that despite the internal episode within Russia, the United States remains focused on the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Having said that, Putin, of course, has put in place a state that\u2019s designed around him with control of the media, control of the information space. So, again, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s right for us to speculate on where this may go,&#8221; Blinken said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bareback-rocket-ride-the-hunter-biden-story\/\" title=\"\u2018Bareback Rocket Ride\u2019: The Hunter Biden Story\">intensely focused<\/a> on Ukraine, which we\u2019ve been all along, and that is making sure they have what they need to defend the country and to take back territory that has been seized by Russia over the last 16 months,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Blinken also highlighted that the recent rebellion by the Wagner Group exposed previously unknown &#8220;cracks&#8221; in Russia&#8217;s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>The Wagner Group had initially headed towards Moscow, expressing discontent with Russian military leadership. However, talks between Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and Putin, brokered by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, led the private mercenary group to change course.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click here to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken claims Russians are doubting the basis of the Ukraine War following a recent uprising by the Wagner Group. He stated that the conflict has been a disastrous and unsuccessful move for President Putin, emphasizing its strategic failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1956572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1956571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1956571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1956572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1956571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1956571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1956571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}