Why I'm not taking Milley's calls either:
Monica Showalter. . .Another theory is that Putin may now view the United States as a determined adversary bent on his downfall and not worth engaging. Russian officials bristled at Biden calling Putin a "war criminal," saying it could lead to a complete break in relations.
"It misses some of the big ones, though, one of which is the matter of contempt and how much of that the Russians have for Milley (and his wokester U.S. defense secretary, Lloyd Austin).
"After all, Milley's signature achievement has been the botched, chaotic, mal-planned, militarily disastrous U.S. pullout of Afghanistan, which left America's military reputation in ruins and effectively negated the U.S.'s decades of sacrifice in blood and treasure. Milley is still on the job, of course, un-fired and un–drummed out of the service, so the incompetence now associated with American military leadership is unlikely to change any time soon. Russia's military establishment had warned that the U.S. pullout plan would lead to disaster back in April 2021, and sure enough, it did. Milley's pullout was so bad that it made the orderly Russian pullout from the country back in 1989 look positively good in comparison.
"How could the Russians respect a guy like that, or, more importantly, fear him? Much easier to just dismiss his phone calls.". . .
"Whatever it is, we know that Milley doesn't have the pull to get his phone calls answered in Moscow. The Post is probably right in thinking that this raises the odds of a U.S.-Russia conflict. If so, it would be another fine mess Milley has gotten us into. Back in the old days, countries would leap to pick up the phone when the U.S. came calling. Today, not so much. What an embarrassment."
