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Ukrainian forces could wipe out all of 'exhausted' Russian troops' territorial gains, retired US general says
Yahoo ^ | 14-JUL-2022 | Jake Epstein

Posted on 07/14/2022 5:45:37 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas

Ukraine could push Russian forces back to its pre-war borders by 2023 — wiping out its territorial gains — because President Vladimir Putin's troops are "exhausted," a retired US general said on Thursday.

Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, the former commanding general of the US Army in Europe, told Insider that Ukraine's ability to push Russian troops back to the existing borders depends on continued Western support through sanctions and weapons deliveries.

"The Russians are exhausted," Hodges said. "They don't have much else they can do right now."

He added that much of Putin's military is already committed to the war, but Russia has had little territorial success to show for its efforts after 20 weeks of war.

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1 posted on 07/14/2022 5:45:37 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
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To: SpeedyInTexas

sure.


2 posted on 07/14/2022 5:48:58 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Ben Hodges gives impressive presentations.


3 posted on 07/14/2022 5:50:47 PM PDT by conejo99
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To: Recovering_Democrat

China is licking her chops and will pounce in the east within 24 months!


4 posted on 07/14/2022 5:51:20 PM PDT by WellyP (question!)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

So Like, Russia is not getting the money to reload its war machine and station Satan missiles in South America?


5 posted on 07/14/2022 5:52:52 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Are those the U.S. generals who would’ve told Rommel where we would land on D-Day?


6 posted on 07/14/2022 5:53:09 PM PDT by laweeks
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Ukraine is drafting woman and the disabled cripples...

Winnning!


7 posted on 07/14/2022 5:53:15 PM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: SpeedyInTexas
Sure. Here is the latest from the most accurate source of info on the Ukraine war that I know of from following this guy for 4 months.

"Major collapse of Ukraine resistance". Report: Once the Donbass region is completely secured, Putin will make a peace offer on his terms. If that offer is rejected, "All Hell Will Break Loose". It's about to get even more interesting.

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8 posted on 07/14/2022 5:53:36 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: SpeedyInTexas

With who, all the women they’re drafting?


9 posted on 07/14/2022 5:53:56 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: WellyP

and we’ll have to defend Russia ?


10 posted on 07/14/2022 6:00:59 PM PDT by butlerweave
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and we’ll have to defend Russia ?

Who knows - the establishment doesn't seem to care who we're defending, as long as the 'foreign aid' dollars flow (and the establishment elite get a piece of the action ;>)...

11 posted on 07/14/2022 6:06:14 PM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: Karl Spooner; 2banana; Mr. Blond; Travis McGee
"He [Ben Hodges] endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 U.S. presidential election in an op-ed with Ambassador Robert A. Mandell and Lieutenant General Donald M. Campbell Jr."

One of Bammy's Perfumed Princes at the Pentagon.

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/opinion/2020/10/29/two-retired-generals-retired-ambassador-all-florida-ties-trump-unfit-lead/6011503002/

One of the NeverTrump seditionists in the US Armed Forces.

You see a lot of them, if you start looking around.

Karl - did you see that ScrewBloob suspended Alex Christoforou for a week? They're after him...

12 posted on 07/14/2022 6:07:38 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: laweeks

“Are those the U.S. generals who would’ve told Rommel where we would land on D-Day?”

I rather like your posting.


13 posted on 07/14/2022 6:08:17 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas (The Only Good RuZZian is a Dead RuZZian)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Hodges was an Obama general who was quiet as a mouse when Obama was sending blankets to Ukraine. He sure talks tough now though.


14 posted on 07/14/2022 6:09:14 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Karl Spooner

Looking at the map, Russia taking Siversk will close off a Ukrainian defensive salient and consolidating Russian lines in the East. In the West, Russia will bypass to the North of Odessa and connect up with troops in eastern Moldova, cutting off the southwest chunk of Ukraine including the port at Odessa.


15 posted on 07/14/2022 6:10:58 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas
The new western weapons with greater accuracy and distance are a game changer. Russian supply depots and command centers are being successfully destroyed on a daily basis.

There’s a new Ukrainian offensive in the south near Kherson, with the potential of trapping thousands of Russians on the west side of the Dnieper river - there’s only one bridge left for them to escape.

16 posted on 07/14/2022 6:11:05 PM PDT by 11th_VA (I can still remember an America where dissent was the highest form of patriotism.)
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To: butlerweave

Read “The Bear and the Dragon” The first 300 pages will bore you then you can’t put the book down! “The Bear and the Dragon is a techno-thriller novel, written by Tom Clancy and released on August 21, 2000. A direct sequel to Executive Orders, President Jack Ryan deals with a war between Russia and China, referred respectively in the title as the Russian Bear and the Chinese Dragon. At over 1,028 pages, it is Clancy’s longest novel. The book debuted at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list.Wikipedia Remember, the Russian people and Americans are natural allies!


17 posted on 07/14/2022 6:13:16 PM PDT by WellyP (question!)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

So, what is this LTG thinking we should do? Attack them, provide more logistics, more special ops?
What an idiot!
Question…..which defense contractor does he work for? Sit on the bard for? Defense company he has stock in?


18 posted on 07/14/2022 6:15:53 PM PDT by GreenCell
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To: 11th_VA

Ukraine doesn’t have the gear to go on offense. Ukraine is getting just enough aid to keep them afloat and defend. That will allow Putin to keep the stolen Crimean land bridge while freezing the conflict again. Putin must be allowed to declare victory and “save face” you see. That what the Soros EU types like Macron and Scholz are thinking, anyway.


19 posted on 07/14/2022 6:19:30 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Karl Spooner

So, who is he? You laud him yet give no information as to who he is and what his source is.


20 posted on 07/14/2022 6:23:46 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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