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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: Robert A Cook PE

Either could be true. Just saying, we need to be careful. The UK Daily Mail is a pro-Ukraine rag. Listen to Bannon. He has a much different take too, and interestingly has broken with Seb Gorka over this.


81 posted on 02/28/2022 6:32:56 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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To: MotorCityBuck

“I’ve yet to figure out the Russian strategy thus far. It has certainly not looked like Blitzkrieg, or Shock & Awe.”

I doubt that was the plan, as Russia would have needed closer to 500,000 troops to pull that off on a country that large, rather than under 200,000.


82 posted on 02/28/2022 6:33:40 AM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: Rennes Templar

“What happens when Putin wins? “
Then putin will own the burisma intel and will have considerable control over any dem President going forward


83 posted on 02/28/2022 6:34:32 AM PST by daku
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To: LS

“...and interestingly has broken with Seb Gorka over this.”

Gorka is from Hungary, so I’m thinking Gorka kind of went Tribal on this one. He certainly sounds that way on the radio.


84 posted on 02/28/2022 6:35:56 AM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: fatboy

The crazy s.o.b. is threatening Sweden, Finland, the rest of us with nukes. Personally, I’m hoping that the oligarchs retire their guy because he has become a loose cannon.


85 posted on 02/28/2022 6:38:08 AM PST by BlackAdderess (Hope for the best, prepare for the worst)
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To: BobL

Yes. Of course.
I also wonder in our world of cell phone “journalism” that all out war in the traditional sense may be a hard sell.


86 posted on 02/28/2022 6:38:43 AM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: Chainmail

I am just trying to warn you that you are buying into the narratives that are going to keep the Democrats in power.


87 posted on 02/28/2022 6:38:54 AM PST by Codeflier (Please stop calling these violent totalitarian collectivist Democrats, liberals)
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To: Thunder90

Russia has about twenty T-14s, and less than four hundred T-90s in active inventory. Total, in their entire army. The T-72 is still their primary tank. Why, because it’s cheap to operate. You’re not going to see a bunch of Russki wonder weapons any time soon.


88 posted on 02/28/2022 6:39:28 AM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Chainmail

Alright try to discuss something with you as I trying to talk to my wife when she’s having a bipolar meltdown we’re meltdown alright you have a nice day sir


89 posted on 02/28/2022 6:41:14 AM PST by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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To: Rennes Templar
The fact that the Ukrainians are talking about negotiations with the Russians means they're losing. You don't negotiate when you're winning.
90 posted on 02/28/2022 6:44:37 AM PST by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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To: jmacusa

Ukraine doesn’t have to “win”, just hold off long enough, because every day the war drags on, Putin’s position gets more and more precarious.


91 posted on 02/28/2022 6:45:23 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: fatboy

The narrative probably has a goal, but the people following it with such devotion are just being led. I imagine we will get a “Putin is gassing civilians” narrative before the week is out. Gas and WMD are goto scenarios. They might update it and claim that he is releasing COVID-19. The goal is to broaden the war.

Anytime I see Mitt Romney, Fox News, CNN, Richard Spencer, a lot of Freepers, the LGBTQ community, and Eric Swalwell all on the same side of something, I get suspicious (and a little bit nauseated). I freely admit that a break from Twitter/Gab/et al. would help.


92 posted on 02/28/2022 6:48:30 AM PST by cdcdawg (Everyone who disagrees with me is a Qtard blogger!!!!)
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To: dfwgator

This is a strange ‘’war’’. I’m seeing destruction of buildings, armored vehicles abandoned and destroyed , some wounded and a body here and there but little else.

I don’t know what the deal is but I don’t care that these two regimes are engaging in another blood feud.

I care that we no longer have a southern border and there could be another 9/11 on the horizon.


93 posted on 02/28/2022 6:49:30 AM PST by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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To: SoCal Pubbie

Nice..we are now left with a demented, senile POTUS and a psychopathic Russian president staring each other down


94 posted on 02/28/2022 6:50:46 AM PST by RonnG ('')
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To: BlackAdderess

I said pretty much the same thing here.

All those fat cats in the Kremlin have made good lives for themselves and their families. They aren’t about to let this mad man blow it all up.

They’ll make him resign for ‘’health reasons’’.


95 posted on 02/28/2022 6:51:37 AM PST by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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To: BlackAdderess

“The crazy s.o.b. is threatening Sweden, Finland, the rest of us with nukes. Personally, I’m hoping that the oligarchs retire their guy because he has become a loose cannon.”

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It is time for Sweden, Finland and the rest to take responsibility for themselves and not expect the USA to defend their borders. The reason these countries have “free” healthcare is because they don’t spend what they should spend on defense rather they rely on the US and GB to defend their stupid countries. Which one of those countries have been engaged in gut wrenching discussions regarding the security of the borders of the USA? None.


96 posted on 02/28/2022 6:58:32 AM PST by fatboy
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To: mmichaels1970
Putin is a KGB pinko commie sovietski scumbag

You may want to research who the Commie Pinko Commie Fags are. Many of them are leading the Pentagon right now…
97 posted on 02/28/2022 7:02:50 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Rennes Templar

If he hasn’t won by now, then he has lost. He has lost huge amounts of equipment and his logistics are terrible. Running out of fuel, having to rob stores and cafes for food etc. This was supposed to be a walkover, even Gen. Milley said 72 hours would do it but by gosh nope. When I see Russian tanks parked on the Maidan, then Putin has won, but not before.


98 posted on 02/28/2022 7:04:34 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dreams)
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To: Rennes Templar

Finally somebody has real intel. This is also close to what I’m hearing. The Russians are fighting these mercenaries who protect the cabal operations more than they are engaging the regular Ukraine army. Putin has specific targets. He’s removing the cabal NWO from the Ukraine. Its very surgical. All this other BS you are reading and hearing is bunk.


99 posted on 02/28/2022 7:05:05 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: BobL
it's not too difficult for the US military to take out power plants and substations -- no other country's military comes anywhere CLOSE to the USA, leave alone Russia's dilapidated military.

We need to remember how utterly huge is the difference between America's military and the rest of the world COMBINED.

100 posted on 02/28/2022 7:09:17 AM PST by Cronos ( One cannot desire freedom from the Cross, especially when one is especially chosen for the cross)
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