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In the Bloggers & Personal forum, on a thread titled Back to the Bloodlands: Operation Krepost [Big Serge on Kursk operation], EnderWiggin1970 wrote:
As usual Serge does a great job of cutting to the meat of the matter and identifying key data often missed by the general news media. (His comments at the Ukrainian Kampfgruppe cobbled together for the Kursk offensive and what it implies about the state of the Ukrainian military being a good example.)
But, unusually for him, I think he misses the real reason for the Kursk operation. It is not military (as he demonstrates, it makes no sense in military terms) but political. The goal is to show Ukraine can fight and win victories, and therefore deserves continuing support. Even as they continue to fall back in the Donbass facing much more serious losses than anything gained in this offensive.
I enjoyed reading the OP and your post.
My opinion about the goals of the operation has not yet stabilized.
I think your theory is part of the right answer. Mercouris or Christoforou had recently said, the Ukrainians are trying to hold out until November. I've been thinking, Biden has given the Ukraine 200 Billion dollars of taxper funds to conceal the extensive DNC crimes, and Biden family's own corruption there. The DNC pretends it's interested in 'freedom' while they work to strip American freedom's away. The DNC waves little blue and yellow flags in Congress because it looks so much nicer than admitting they will give Ukraine more than the US can afford in order to protect the toxic crime hub which helps many corrupt Democrats and the DNC (Republicans too) launder money, engage in treason, steal elections etc.
So this 'hold out until November' has me thinking that, while the DNC/Biden crime family et. al. want to conceal their crimes (election theft etc.), they dare not 'let' the Ukraine fall or surrender prior to Nov 5, no matter the Ukrainian losses and the hopelessness of their war efforts, because the public would realize they've been lied to about the state of affairs in Ukraine for quite some time, that their 200 billion taxpayer dollars were given to the Ukraine when the US knew it had no chance of winning. Biden recently promised to give the Ukraine more money. The DNC is trying to distance Kamala Harris by saying she doesn't favor the Ukraine (or was it Zelensky she said she didn't favor?). It won't be enough- the DNC/DeepState/Biden's handlers are thinking it may cost them the election if the truth of the Ukraine war is exposed.
So the Ukraine is forced to keep up the ruse - keep acting like they can fight. It's ghoulish, really. Zelensky sold his soul, but he had no right to sell out the souls of those who are now fighting and dying, running out of vehicles, weapons, fuel etc. in Kursk. The US, NATO and MSM pushed the 'narrative' but they aren't the ones pinned down in Kursk.
The Ukraine has damaging information on Biden family crimes, too. It's a difficult dance - Biden forces Ukraine; Ukraine warns the west what might be exposed if allowed to fall. Ukraine removed troops from their falling front lines in Donbas because they would be told that if they stop fighting before the election, Ukraine will get no more support, no more money, Putin takes all etc. Once the public finds out where 200 Billion dollars went, aside from grifter 'cuts' off the top, no one will want more sent.
The Deep State is desperate. I do think they are not above trying to damage parts of the reactor to force the Russians to remove troops from Ukraine. Nuclear blackmail because the Donbas can't hold, the Ukrainians were short of men and everything they need to fight BEFORE they sent 15,000 to Kursk with valuable air defense, armored vehicles, artillary etc. So I think this about getting the Deep State's Democratic puppets to the election without exposing the truth about the Ukraine, and once again, the upper tiers don't care what happens to those who actually fight and die in the false belief they're saving their country. What happens to Zelensky when Ukraine falls - all those men he betrayed with false promises of victory, and now they can't even come home from Kursk.