Posted on 09/13/2022 4:00:21 PM PDT by Boomer
My words: Best video I've seen explaining current events happening on the ground in Ukraine and where both sides are at this point along with who is fighting for Ukraine now. Straight facts and honest.
Okay, I'm going to put my fire retardant suit on because I know the flames will be coming hot and fast.
These days when I want to see about Ukraine, I pull up Taras Bulba (1962).
No flames from me. It’s obvious that Ukraine employed outside help in their latest “counteroffensive.” They must be down to the dregs of their military force and suddenly they have Russia “on the run?” 🤣
All the clowns here who support Ukraine winning this military operation will be to blame as much as the MIC when it turns into WWIII. Russia will simply not lose this war and will do whatever it takes. And if they don’t, some other fool will create a false flag operation to ensure it happens. Face it, ppl: we’re going to war. There’s too much money to make and more power to grab. 🤬
Isn’t Scott Ritter the guy who was convicted on some child sex abuse caper back in the early 2000’s?
I don’t understand why people keep posting what the pedo thinks on here.
No, he was the guy that live with the hot blonde chic and the brunette with way too short hair in the 80’s.
I think he gets most of his info from Mr. Roper.
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With Yule Brenner and Toy Curtis!
Russia's core problem in this war is that they cannot escape the long-term consequences of having crappy supply/maintenance/administration systems. All the boring, expensive stuff that nobody likes, and that you can't show on parades, but is essential to to making your military durable.
It's the same problem the Arabs have had. You can give them them modern equipment, but if it doesn't come with a culture of proper maintenance, inspections, reporting, spare parts, etc., it just isn't going to run for very long.
That is not a problem Russia can fix for this war.
I highly doubt NATO had anything to do with it.
I’m happy to see you have a lot in common with this person. I don’t know anything about him.
I’ve noticed one thing though; a lot of so-called conservatives have learned from the demonic dems. Instead of commenting on the substance or the information provided they attack the person delivering the message.
How’s that working out for you?
Ritter is wrong here. There is military advice, and there is military control.
Thats a problem with a lack of historical depth. Take Turkey - the Turks had a long history of hiring foreign officers to advise, instruct, and command. The last major case was in WWI when they gave German general Liman von Sanders (and the German staff group that he led) command of the Palestine front in 1916.
Its entirely possible that some NATO team helped organize the staff unit that ran the recent Kharkiv offensive. Ukraine seems to have needed better staff work to run mobile operations. Hopefully with such a success under their belt they can sort out their other commands.
For that matter Russia needs even more work in this area. They have blown a hundred opportunities to break open the Ukrainian front. But thats a tangent.
Getting military advice on an operational scale does not make a country a puppet any more than Turkey was a German puppet in WWI. And that would be even if Ukraine openly appoints a British or American “Liman von Sanders”.
Calling Ukraine a NATO puppet is pure rhetoric, a propaganda theme.
He was busted for trying to meet under age girls, for immoral purposes.
He was busted at a Burger King.
"Can I buy you a happy meal, little girl?"
Please provide a link to your interview so I can view it as well.
Exactly!
A “Romeo and Juliet” story that takes place in the late 16 c. Ukraine. Taras has settled into comfortable farm life after years of adventures and swashbuckling with his cossack companions. Though not wealthy, he is able to send his son Andrii away to a Polish school. At this time the Poles are overlords of Ukraine and the origin of the cossacks is struggle of the Ukrainian serfs to free themselves and their land of Polish domination. Toward this end Taras hopes that his son will be educated in the ways of the enemy. Instead, Andrii falls in love with the daughter of a Polish nobleman, setting the stage for a clash between love, family honor, and a struggle for national identity. —Anonymous
This is not unusual.
When the Mongols sacked Muslim Baghdad in 1258, there were Christian advisors to the Mongols.
In the previous 600 years, the Muslims had destroyed much of the ancient Classic civilization of the Romans (by then Christian), and depopulated much of the Mediterranean coastal regions.
Their other weaknesses are staff work, doctrine, training (at high as well as low levels), etc. They have been amateurish in every regard.
They could break through a Ukrainian front line, but without an exploiting force ready behind, to take advantage of the penetration.
They had, in the early war, free run of much of the Ukrainian road network, but except for areas where they were entirely unopposed, they could not seize key points and resupply. They were easily stopped and diverted by ambushes by small units. They didn’t recon well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritter
The pedo convictions are concerning. I have strong feelings about that; especially when the guy is more than a couple of years older than the minor.
How ironic we have an illegitimate pResident who is a known pedo yet still in office doing his level best to destroy America.
I’ve been around long enough to also know how the deep state and other unscrupulous actors can throw a false flag conviction on a person. Not saying that happened here but I do leave open that possibility since he did ruffle feathers. It’s one of their main ways to discredit people because it works so well and it’s hard to defend against. It’s clearly working in this thread.
What I heard was...
NATO war-gamed one big push either this way or that, and even a few pincer movements, and couldn’t come up with a way to make any of them a sure bet.
A Ukrainian strategists said something to the effect of, “OK, so one push won’t cut it and neither will a pincer movement. How about we do two completely unrelated pushes at the same time and rope-a-dope the Russkies into running the wrong way?”
The NATO experts raised an eyebrow, went away, did some war-gaming, and to their surprise, while it looked like one hell of a gamble, if it did succeed there was a chance it could succeed on a far larger scale than anything else they’d simulated.
Poland (state military under Ukrainian flag) is there on the ground.
US and Britain Special Forces are there on the ground.
All intel and info ops are NATO.
This is likely to get more ugly than ANYONE is prepared for.
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