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 main thing is that, as far as I know, we all assumed that it was planned to be a Blitzkrieg-type takeover of Ukraine, but the Russians never published a timetable. So to say they’re losing on the battlefield might be a bit premature.
Likewise, maybe they are losing - who knows, other than the Russians.
Must be fine with China assaulting Taiwan while we're at it. Must be nice.
So now the GP has gone to cheerleading for Putin.
Well done, Comrades. Marshal Putin will bestow a “hero” medal upon you any day now.
When did you become a democrat?
It is obvious, that Russians tried their “proven” strategy, tried in Prague, Kabul, Grozny, and other places.
Send spec forces and saboteurs to take over airports, then fly in the rest of spec forces and take over all government and strategic points (control, communication,...)
Then drive in their masses of poorly trained draftees, all of them would rather be somewhere else! Just for show, to suppress any thoughts of resistance.
The spec forces obviously failed, so now Putin is trying to get some spec forces from Belarus.
He seems to be down to the masses of poorly trained draftees. Most of then do not know, where they are, why are they there, and probably do not even know which way the bullet comes out of the rifle!
Since there are many of them, they still present formidable force in aggregate, but they are pitiful.
I would not count on them to win anything!
Now, today the multiple angle, multiple source footage from Karkhov is real. Those are real multiple explosions in civilian areas. As best I can tell, no military target there. Could be something hidden.
North Korea enthusiastically backs Putin’s invasion as well.
The multiple videos from multiple sources of the bombing of Kharkov this morning appears quite real.
As I posted yesterday...
The problem for me, at least, is that Ukraine is a small to medium sized country in the middle of nowhere, yet I kept hearing about it with regard to the Bidens, and Trump’s impeachment, and it looks like the Dems (and Romney) had a great scheme going there to launder money to their families.
So forgive me if I have little sympathy for the government in Kiev. I usually root for the underdog, because it’s more fun, but Ukraine chose to take a side in the politics of the United States and we’ve been paying the price ever since. Whatever the government there is replaced with will be an improvement for the United States, and that is ALL that I give a crap about.
“What was the point of this story?”
I think to counter the MSM narrative. The fact that there is zero MSM video of combat speaks volumes.
Among all the responses you could have made, that was the least intelligent one possible. Congratulations.
Hopefully the Ukes will trap the Russians into an urban warfare scenario... Putin’s pukes won’t fare well in that setting.
No.......the CIA (CNN) wants you to think Biden and Europe have Putin surrounded.
Everyone knows its just a matter of time before regime change happens.......
Germany talks about sending weapons....as do others but the Russians control the airports in the country.......
Biden blew it.......
The Russians still have access to China for transactions with the West, also have access to SWIFT for energy and raw materials transactions, and still have Hunter to go through. Want to end this? Cut off all energy and raw materials transactions with Russia and start progressively stricter sanctions on China for providing Russia access to their markets (and add one day per incursion of Taiwanese air and sea defense zones).
So... opposing Putin makes someone a “democrat?”
Do explain that one.
Just when I thought that the responses couldn't be any more ridiculous, you come along with that beauty!
So, how long have you been a Russian troll?
“So now the GP has gone to cheerleading for Putin.”
Looks like they are reporting military developments the MSM is not. Why is there no MSM footage of combat in the streets?
interesting info not seen on MSM
thanx for posting
Nobody has said that at all we’re saying that since the media and the democrats and all these people that’ve been wanting to throw unvaccinated in the camps are suddenly cheering for this and everybody that last week didn’t believe anything in the media or the government had to say has suddenly decided to swallow everything they put out there’s something going on besides what you’re hearing In the news.
Also known as good operational security.
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