Posted on 05/02/2023 2:52:04 PM PDT by Widget Jr
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🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Sláva Ukrayíni! 🇺🇦 ☭ No CCCP 2.0 ☭
Since early April, when Pentagon briefing slides about the state of the Ukrainian army 'leaked' onto the web, the writing in 'western' media about the much discussed Ukrainian counteroffensive has become more gloomy.The hyping is largely gone and the assessments become more realistic. Three days ago the London Times offered a piece in that category:
Ukraine isn’t ready for its big offensive, but it has no choice (paywalled, archived version)
Kyiv is locked into a spring or summer push despite burning through ammo so fast that the West can’t keep up.
[W]hile the Ukrainians are moving quickly to assimilate their 230 new and reconditioned western tanks and 1,550 armoured vehicles, they still lack proper air defences for any big offensive operation. That puts them at risk from Russian airpower. Western defence sources are also uncertain whether senior commanders can adapt to the new systems as well as their soldiers on the ground.
Yet Kyiv has little real choice but to launch a major spring or summer offensive. Its leaders are increasingly boxed in. As an American defence official put it: “The Ukrainians have surprised us as well as Putin in the past, but have much less room for manoeuvre now . . . and the Russians know it.”
President Zelensky has managed the West with great skill, but to maintain its support he has to show what Washington insiders rather tastelessly call a “return on investment”.
He must also balance domestic politics. Hawks such as Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine’s military intelligence chief, prevent any meaningful talk about negotiations, even though some in the government think now is the time to put out feelers. One western diplomat in Kyiv described a “surreal parallel experience” as his interlocutors “discuss potential formats for negotiations one evening” and then “shout that there can be no talks with Russia” in public the next day.
During the war Kiev first burned through its standing army material and personnel. It then received a large amount of Soviet era equipment from former Warsaw Pact members and burned through that stash. It has now received 'western' arms for a third army that will largely consist of mobilized civilians with little military experience. After the counteroffensive has run its course, no matter the outcome, that third army will largely be destroyed. There will be no more material and personnel for a fourth army.
What is the INFOGRAPHICS SHOW???
Guess we’ll find out soom enough,eh Jacko?
So let’s see.
Few nations are NOT experiencing huge problems today.
MOA likes whistling past the graveyard before the funeral. They read into everything they use what they want to believe.
When the counter offensive happens, then we will know. Everything else is just guessing.
Click the link, look around, think, figure it out.
When they get to Stalinesque numbers, the alarm will mean something. By my count, they have at least 30 million more to go.
The spring summer fall winter offensive is coming...
So it's a cartoon show for low IQ'ers?
Wow! Usually if I see a really long post I’ll get to a point where they are repeating themselves and then just scan the rest, but that was not the case here. There was no repeating. It just kept getting worse. Thanks for posting this information.
Your welcome. The situation in Ukraine is obviously severe. What is fascinating is how the manufactured Russian mythos is falling apart, and it is mostly the Russian government’s fault.
Puty is dumber than a box of rocks. Did he think everyone was going to jump onto his death train? Total moron.
China will happily repopulate Russia (as well as every other country it takes over).
Ukraine ping
[Puty is dumber than a box of rocks. Did he think everyone was going to jump onto his death train? Total moron.]
What a joke. Do you even know a Ukrainian? Have you been there? Do you have Ukrainian relatives? If you’re so motivated for Ukraine’s bloody border, why won’t you defend our border In the US?
Bad news for Putin is good news for the world!
“www.moonofalabama.org”
Ironic that you support Billmon, the guy behind your site.
Billmon was a stalwart supporter of John McCain and the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ that was orchestrated by McCain and Obama. In particular they orchestrated the civil war in Syria which was intended to deprive Russia of their base in the Med and to facilitate the Qatar/Saudi gas pipeline to Europe and undercut Russian gas exports.
Please, carry on supporting this useful idiot. I approve.
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