Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for October 15, 2022
- Elon Musk placed temporarily on notorious Ukrainian kill list;
- US aid to Ukraine continues to dwindle;
- NATO air defense project spans years and unlikely to help Ukraine in short-term;
- Ukraine's offensives are increasingly depleted quickening arrival at inflection point when irreversible Russian advances begin;
The New Atlas provides analysis by Brian Berletic (aka Tony Cartalucci) based in Bangkok, Thailand.
He authored these articles for RUSSIAN INSIDER
(as Tony Cartalucci)
https://russia-insider.com/en/tony_cartalucci
His strangest opinion/prediction is:
“The United States plans to go with China, before China’s economic and military might will irreversibly surpass that of the US in the early 2030s.
For that the US marines have done away with all their main battle tanks and other weapons systems to focus on Navy-centric warfighting. The war would focus on challenging the Chinese Navy in the South China sea, to cause enough disturbance and through that bring about economic hardship.”
So if Putin had the ability to make “irreversible” gains, why didn’t he opt to do so the first time, when he had much greater advantages in men and materiel?
Very funny!
You said: “Ukraine’s offenses are increasingly depleted quickening arrival at...point where irreversible Russian advances begin”
Moscow disagrees with you:
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin said they would help civilians evacuate the southern city of Kherson, Ukraine, as Ukrainian troops continue to make gains in the area just north of Crimea.
The Ukrainian military has had repeated successes in the south of the country and previously said that it hopes to retake Kherson, one of the provinces annexed by Russia last month, by the end of the year.
Regarding the supply of the new tanks for Ukraine, Ukrainian engineers repairing the tanks abandoned by the Russians during their panicked flight south say that few repairs are needed. For example, the tanks’ “forward” gears were hardly used...