Cleanest sniper fatigues ever, and very nice and shiny rings. Her girlfriend is probably the Ghost of Kyiv. Netflix series by next month.
Posted on 02/28/2022 5:38:24 AM PST by Rennes Templar
The Western media is filled with stories of the brave Ukrainian people rising up to fight the evil Russians and the Russians are paying a terrible toll, or so we are told. But if you step back and look at what is actually transpiring you will note the following:
Unlike the U.S. “shock and awe” unleashed on Baghdad in 2003, which caused significant civilian casualties and destroyed infrastructure and damaged power grids and destroyed bridges, the Russian military is avoiding hitting population centers. The power is still on in Kiev and Kharkiv last I checked.
You are not seeing raging battles in the streets of Kiev or Kharkov between Ukrainian and Russian military forces.
Some believe this indicates Putin’s troops are bogged down and making little progress. But I think there is an alternative explanation. First, Russia has not deployed its most sophisticated weaponry. It remains in place in Russia on the Ukrainian border but showing no signs as of this writing of being activated. Second, little attention is being paid to eastern Ukraine where the bulk of the Ukrainian Army is deployed. Jacob Dreizin offers some important insight on this:
You won’t hear this on CNN, but Putin’s Army of Darkness, in the most complex and ambitious ground maneuver operation since World War 2, following the Soviet “deep war” playbook, is also working on cutting off the Ukrainian army group in the Donbass from Kiev. This is by far the most capable (or only capable) large portion of the Ukrainian army. Yesterday, its main reserves of diesel fuel were destroyed from the air. It will soon be cut off and immobile.
Once that happens, the entire Donbass front collapses (they will no longer have a “front”), and BILLIONS of dollars in U.S.-funded or U.S.-supplied weaponry will be captured almost without a battle. (To be clear, it’s almost all U.S. funded or supplied—even most of the Soviet vintage stuff was bought and shipped in from Poland, Czechia, etc. by the CIA, “off the books” but well documented in videos of tank trains crossing the border into Ukraine, in 2015-2016.)
The Russians have finally entered Kharkov, Ukraine’s second largest city, very close to the Russian border. Previously, they had bypassed it the same way that America bypassed every town in southern Iraq to reach Baghdad in 2003. On Saturday night, they finally wasted all significant, organized resistance with a rain of thermobaric death in the outskirts. Today, they started to go in and mop up. Of course, it’s not a job for one day.
The Ukrainian army is falling back (mostly in organized fashion) throughout the Donbass. They have largely evacuated Mariupol, a very pro-Russian, major steelmaking and steel-shipping center (responsible for billions of dollars in exports) on the Sea of Azov. The sole garrison in Mariupol is now said to be the Azov regiment, a group of bona fide, tattooed Nazis—you know, your typical Ukrainian democracy guys, the ones the MSM doesn’t tell you about, and our State Department prefers to ignore. The kind of guys you must use to garrison a pro-Russian city that hates you.
The “real” army looks to be falling back to Dnepropetrovsk, about 60 miles west of Donetsk, if the Russians don’t cut them off—that’s now the big “if.” Either way, they’ll get hit badly from the air.
They are leaving behind lots of brand spanking new, British and American weaponry. I wish I had time to make a photo collage for you. It turns out, the stuff doesn’t work well. Among other things, you have to charge the battery on those Javelins or whatever. No charge, no fire. No one told them. I guess they had so many dumped on them, it was not realistic to plug them all into the wall, and sit there and wait. I can relate, I don’t even like waiting to charge one new smartphone.
The Ukrainian Air Force, what is left of it, is now flying on Helen Keller terms. It seems that Ukraine combat aircraft rely on ground controlled radar to conduct air to air intercepts. Guess what the Russians obliterated in the first hours of their invasion on Wednesday? If you said, “ground controlled radar” you are a winner.
Without that radar the Russians have air superiority. They have castrated the Ukrainians ability to provide close air support and disrupt Russian air cover. They are flying blind (if they are flying and can find an operational air field.) Then there are the lines of communication for the Ukrainian Army. Critical military fuel dumps are on fire and the ability of the Ukrainian Army to keep their tanks and trucks running is slipping away.
This perhaps explains the volte face of Zelensky in being willing to sit down with the Russians and try to negotiate an end to the evisceration of Ukraine’s military capability.
The Ukrainians are beating back the Russian invasion by dropping anvils on them and tricking them into running off of cliffs.
No simply using Javelins to route their tanks.
If I had to bet, I’d say this report is a lot more accurate than the MSM cheering of the glorious Ukrainians and their easy victory over the incompetent Russians. That one doesn’t make sense to me.
Wolverines!!!
It appears the Russians are using our version of “shock and awe” by avoiding large civilian casualties; avoiding WW II type bombing of cities; using very selective attacks and NOT targeting mass infrastructure that would lead to high casualties. They apparently learned that while this won’t keep the rest of the world, or the West, out entirely, it will minimize the outrage.
We’ll see though. Virtually all of the news is fake. For having 50,000 men inside Ukraine, there is almost zero footage of combat (far less than in Iraq) including cell phones.
Gosh - another Russian cheerleader masquerading as a “conservative”. We done, Comrade.
The mainstream media will portray it as a win for Joe Biden. They will spin it somehow to show his diplomacy ended the war.
“The Russians have finally entered Kharkov, Ukraine’s second largest city, very close to the Russian border. On Saturday night, they finally wasted all significant, organized resistance with a rain of thermobaric death in the outskirts”
This must have been written on Sunday, before all the Russians that entered Kharkiv ended up dead.
“The power is still on in Kiev and Kharkiv last I checked.”
I’ve been wondering about that. Not too difficult to take out power plants and substations, after all.
Just go vote for Biden’s party. I am not buying what the corporate fascists are telling me to buy.
Today the Wall Street Journal editorializes about the Slaughter in The Ukraine. Not one single number to say how many slaughtereed. Just one laudatory adjective after another towaarw the “brave” fighters, a total encomium with few facts.
If Putin is determined to take over Ukraine (known as Little Russia), he wants more than a heap of destruction and a population residue.
I am suspecting something more is happening behind the scenes and great stories are being coordinated for a particular effect.
GP article without BOOM, BREAKING, or HUGE prefacing the headline? That’s news in and of itself.
Putin is a KGB pinko commie sovietski scumbag and I hope Ukraine kicks his red ass back to Stalingrad.
What was the point of this story? The Russians were always going to win. Im surprised they havent won yet.
Yep, what to believe?
“It appears the Russians are using our version of “shock and awe” by avoiding large civilian casualties; avoiding WW II type bombing of cities; using very selective attacks and NOT targeting mass infrastructure that would lead to high casualties”
Indeed. The Russian expectation seems to have been that if they destroy a few military bases and cross the border in force Ukraine will surrender.
The problem they now face is that they haven’t. They now have to decide if they are willing to start levelling major cites, or if is time to claim victory and go home.
“For having 50,000 men inside Ukraine, there is almost zero footage of combat (far less than in Iraq) including cell phones.”
Unusual for a war, huh? Putin, form the start, has called it a special military operation.
Really? Your neo-con warhawk is showing.
Respect your service, but with all due respect...it still doesn't keep you from being a gullible dumbass.
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Biden and corrupt cronies, Xi, and putin
Are mass murderers. , the trio of evil,
They released covid as a start to this war.
I expect if we had a legal system we may find out the trillions milked from the children of the usa are probably in putins hands..these folks are not dumb like our news.., biden is in on this with cronies
Because they are criminals who have been robbing the people for decades.
They know if they are exposed before they
Take over the USA they will die hung on the white house lawn, so expect biden
To fight Us.. its just starting, I expect putin will nuke a euro country, us and China will not reply, Europe is gone, Asia next .they already have us with biden Clinton and crew of sicko crime family pervs.
That’s the reset, biden, Xi, and putin..
Imo..with the beast to come..
It would have never gone this far without putin knowing the plan..
They plan to make our money worthless,
They don’t care .
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