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What is Really Going on in Ukraine? An Alternative Scenario
Gateway Pundit ^ | Feb. 28, 2022 | Larry Johnson

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.


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To: GOPJ

No we don’t.

Just ask yourself this: do you wanna go with the very same people on both sides who were for the lockdowns? Every single one of them is pushing the war.

The only exceptions I’m finding are Bannon (who at first did support lockdowns) and Robert Barnes.


181 posted on 03/01/2022 5:57:23 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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To: Cronos

I agree, but it doesn’t change the reality that he isn’t flattening cities like the globalist propaganda claimed.


182 posted on 03/01/2022 5:58:07 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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To: proud_dad_of_two

Shows just the opposite. This looks VERY similar to our bombing of Baghdad under “shock and awe.” Looks like they are hitting about one block, NOT all over the city.

If the Russkies wanted to vaporize Karkov, they could have done it yesterday. This looks highly controlled, likely a coms target there.


183 posted on 03/01/2022 6:00:07 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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To: LS

I don’t read MSM - leave alone watch TV.

The idea was always that Putin would go in and try to grab land whole. The question was how much


184 posted on 03/01/2022 6:06:52 AM PST by Cronos ( One cannot desire freedom from the Cross, especially when one is especially chosen for the cross)
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To: Cronos

Consensus is that he wants Donbass and one other heavily pro-Russkie region. These regions voted almost 95% to side with Russia recently. Not an excuse for violating territorial integrity at all. But it is a consideration.


185 posted on 03/01/2022 6:15:30 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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To: LS

The thing is that the only pro-Russki region was crimea. Donbas has many Russian speakers, but the distinction between Russian and ukrainian languages is very fine - and many Russian speakers still didn’t feel “Russian”

If he wanted just Donbas, then he could have had a limited war and won it by now.


186 posted on 03/01/2022 6:33:46 AM PST by Cronos ( One cannot desire freedom from the Cross, especially when one is especially chosen for the cross)
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To: UCANSEE2

X22 report is saying the Russians found A bunker with 100 kids being held including 5 American kids. I don’t know what source they are getting their info from but they were told Putin contacted Trump about evacuating the kids not from the eastern bloc region as Putin is not in contact with Biden’s regime.


187 posted on 03/01/2022 6:40:57 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Cronos

Not what I was hearing on Barnes’s webcast. Apparently there are a couple of very pro-Russian areas. One thing’s for sure: we wouldn’t know it from the globalist news coverage would we?

Sorry, when Veeta Vita Vindman, Minion Romney, and George Soros are on one side, I’m almost automatically on the other.


188 posted on 03/02/2022 6:06:13 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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To: LS

I’m not referring to global media. Refer to the Russian Telegram social media feedS?

The only place where there was sufficient pro Russian sentiment to support a Russian invasion was Crimea. Think about it, nowhere else have people welcomed this Russian invasion


189 posted on 03/02/2022 5:33:32 PM PST by Cronos ( One cannot desire freedom from the Cross, especially when one is especially chosen for the cross)
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To: Cronos

Donbass.


190 posted on 03/03/2022 5:26:36 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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To: Georgia Girl 2
That would be a big mistake for Trump to pick up the phone and take a call from Putin or any of his people right now under any pretext.

Put those kids on a plane to a neutral country and be done with it, if they really exist.

191 posted on 03/03/2022 5:43:47 AM PST by OKSooner (No blood for a fake President.)
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To: Cronos

Academic discussion. Who cares about Russians who were sent to Ukrain in the Soviet era. Let them go home.

With Stingers and Javelins, the Russians are facing a hornet’s nest and it will get worse during Occupation.

Donbas, Crimea will be harassed and killed for years, 10 plus years possibly.


192 posted on 03/03/2022 5:49:56 AM PST by rbmillerjr (Defeating China is impossible without understanding that Russia is our enemy)
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To: OKSooner

I hate to be the one to tell you this but its my understanding that Trump has spoken with Putin 2-3 times lately and other world leaders are also calling him. They don’t call Biden because they either outright know or suspect that Trump never left office. He travels openly in a full presidential motorcade with ambulance. When he flies into a major city they close airspace. He has state Department level security. If the military wasn’t protecting Trump he would already be dead. So yes Putin called Trump because he is part of the alliance that is taking down the NWO.

Stay tuned because its coming down here behind the scenes right now but soon Trump will be pulling the curtain back for all to see. Who would you rather see count the midterm vote? The military or the crooked democratic election officials who counted 2020?


193 posted on 03/03/2022 8:48:42 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Sorry, I’m not into the Q stuff myself. Whatever works for you, though.


194 posted on 03/03/2022 3:31:47 PM PST by OKSooner (No American blood for a fake President.)
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To: LS

There are many more....

Hitting apartment buildings with missiles isn’t shock and awe at all.


195 posted on 03/06/2022 2:40:08 PM PST by proud_dad_of_two (Formerly MikefromOhio (I couldn't remember my password and lost the email account too!))
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To: proud_dad_of_two

I don’t believe any pics, from either side. Too much propaganda.

BTW, here is a map from one English source with the latest on troop movements. If you choose to believe this. Not sure I do.

https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPR/status/1500574438990958599?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw


196 posted on 03/07/2022 5:45:29 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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