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.
Part of this is to prevent China from taking Taiwan. If they see an easy Russian victory, the Chinese will strike.
“North Korea enthusiastically backs Putin’s invasion as well.”
Likewise George Soros announced yesterday that he is all for the present Ukraine government.
So Russia, with the million man army and tanks that will overrun Europe so we need the combined forces of the UK, France, Germany, and many other NATO allies to barely be able to stop them..... can’t take a city 30 miles from its border? and is being held back by people with molotov cocktails?
Either Russia’s military is a joke and we have been lied to about the need to fund NATO at the level we have been doing...or this article may have some truth.
Well... the Gateway ((BOOM!!!)) Pundit is hardly the paragon of news reporting.
Far as I’m concerned until we stop purchasing oil from Russia during this crisis then it’s all Wag the Dog.
There are millions of people affected by this, I don’t think it is at all funny and
is anything but crowd control.
I call it a good article in that persents another segment of this complicated pie. And one that has been talked about over the last 20 years. And now obviously forgotten...
I have a few “what if’s” of my own... only because this Administration is involved.
I question whether the Rus has upset the NWO apple cart?
I question whether there’s some kind of involvement of Putin in the Burisma debacle of Hunter Biden’s and if this isn’t some kind of cover-up for Hunter Biden?
If we’re dealing with an American Administration that lies to us every single day, what else are we supposed to get out of it except more questions?
There fact that Soros, abromovic and Klaus’s Schwab are cheering for Ukraine, like you, I guess makes you a one worlder.
This appears to me to scare tactics to try to convince the West not to arm the Ukrainians. Elon Musk has provided phones, and probably a few other things, and the Ukrainians in any event are very tech saavy, as tech is their third largest export.
The victory that Putin can legitimately claim, is that he seems to be putting a very definitive nail in the woke coffin.
Right... so this has kind of shuffled the cards, hasn’t it?
Some conservatives support Ukraine’s independence, while some are in bed with Putin.
You’re babbling: the news isn’t telling us anything. Russia has invaded a sovereign country - that much is fact. Since when do we “conservatives” back Russia attacking anybody?
What Russia is using in Ukraine is the JV team. No AK-12s, T-90s or T-14s, no newer aircraft, few elite units, minimum ELINT and SIGINT.
Interesting. What label do you assign to the Putin pals who are in league with China, Iran and North Korea in their support for the KGB thug?
Women on average are better shots than men, probably having to do with all the fine motor skills honed over millennia processing textiles.
Gosh, you're an idiot. Trump and most of the Republican leadership opposed Russia's naked aggression - so what's that make you, Comrade?
And that's the core of it. How anyone IDing as a conservative could back the likes of Putin defies logic. One doesn't have to have fealty to the Ukrainian regime to oppose Russian trash raiding the country.
Amen.
“Some conservatives support Ukraine’s independence, while some are in bed with Putin.”
There was A REASON why we didn’t try to bring Austria or Finland into NATO during the Cold War, and it wasn’t because we were in bed with the Soviet leaders.
They plan to make our money worthless,
Yup. They need to crash all the monetary systems.
If you are not stashing cash and barter items by now, you are late to the party.
To do so is in violation of the Geneva Convention and considered a war crime.....
So I guess according to you Trump is also a one worlder. Trump-”The Russian attack on Ukraine is appalling. We are praying for the proud people of Ukraine. God bless them all”
Ukraine ceased being a sovereign country in 2014 when Obama topple a duly elected president.
Kind of like us overthrowing Castro.....which we could have done. Ukraine was supposed to stay neutral but it was ready to join Nato and that’s when it hit the fan.
Facts......
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