Posted on 07/16/2023 9:18:47 AM PDT by Kazan
Gateway Pundit reported that Russia claims Ukraine has suffered 26.000 casualities in one month of its failed “counter-offensive.” Now, even war hawk Foreign Policy magazine concedes that young men in Ukraine are being pressed into military service with no training and sent into the ”meat grinder“ in Donetsk.,/b>
“On July 5, Ukrainian army generals issued a proclamation dramatically expanding the martial law prohibiting Ukrainian civilian men’s freedom of movement, calling on all those “liable for military service” to remain in their home districts“, writes Amherst professor Charli Carpenter on Foreign Policy, the magazine of the saber-rattling Council on Foreign Relations, where Joe Biden famously boasted about blackmailing Ukraine with $1 billion to get the prosecutor inverstigating Hunter Biden’s company Burisma fired.
“With the Twitter hashtag #UkraineLetMenOut, citizens had already been complaining bitterly about men being unable to leave the country with their families since Russia’s invasion,” Carpenter writes. “After the new proclamation came down, one Ukrainian tweeted, “Now we can’t even leave our cities without permission from military recruitment centers.” Another tweeted, “Animals have more rights in Ukraine than men.”“
Carpenter quotes a young man hiding out in Lviv, Ukraine, he calls Andrij, who was separated from his mother, sister, and fiancée when they fled to London, while Andrij was forced to stay behind.
“My fiancée and sick mother need me abroad so that I can work and help them. Now I can’t even help myself, I am left alone with strangers [and] without a home and cannot leave the country,” he quotes Andrij. “My friends and I have no experience and we do not want to hold weapons and cannot physically fight. I live in fear they will send me to war without proper training. My friends were trained for five days and sent to Donetsk. I’m worried about the men in this country, many others are worse off than me.”
Ukraine has lost about 20% of military equipment and weapons since it started its counteroffensive, the New York Times reported on Saturday.
An Invasion of Crimea would cost Kiev upwards of 200.000 lives, according to Aleksey Arestovich, a former adviser to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.
The Russian Ministry of Defense claimed they had repelled 17 Ukrainian attacks July 15, at a cost of 385 Ukrainian caasualties, four armored fighting vehicles, six pickup trucks, and two towed howitzers, SouthFront reports.
According to Russian MoD claims, the Ukraine has lost 10,711 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 1,138 fighting vehicles equipped with multiple-launch rocket systems MLRS, 5,462 field artillery cannons and mortars, 11,678 motor vehicles, 455 airplanes, 242 helicopters, 5,015 UAVs and 426 air defense missile systems in the war so far.
According to Dutch open-source trackers Oryx, Russia has lost 10,904 pieces of military equipment since the beginning of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, of which 7,251 were destroyed, 414 damaged, 407 abandoned, and 2,832 captured. In total, Russia has lost 2,082 tanks – or an average of 130 per month, Oryx claims.
NBC showed a Ukrainian soldier driving a $500.000 MRAP vehicle who said he had received no training on the vehicle, but instead “used Google”.
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. criticized Joe Biden’s decision to call up 3,000 reservists to augment U.S. troops in Europe: “I want people to understand what this troop mobilization is about. It’s about preparing for a ground war with Russia.”
President Biden just called up 3,000 reservists to augment U.S. troops in Europe as part of "Operation Atlantic Resolve." I want people to understand what this troop mobilization is about. It's about preparing for a ground war with Russia.https://t.co/YCzL0UWoo0
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) July 14, 2023
Biden has lost his way. He is out of touch with the real needs and priorities of the American people. Do you care more about global military dominance, or would you like to rebuild our prosperity from the inside out? #Kennedy24
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) July 14, 2023
Right, then explain how the Soviets lost in Afghanistan.
“The 1864 Democratic National Convention nominated McClellan, a War Democrat, but adopted a platform advocating peace with the Confederacy, which McClellan rejected. The Confederacy seemed to have survival potential in summer 1864, but was visibly collapsing by election day in November.
“Despite his early fears of defeat, Lincoln won strong majorities in the popular and electoral vote, partly as a result of the recent Union victory at the Battle of Atlanta. As the Civil War was still raging, no electoral votes were counted from any of the eleven southern states that had joined the Confederate States of America. Lincoln’s re-election ensured that he would preside over the successful conclusion of the Civil War.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1864_United_States_presidential_election
Everyone has one.
False comparison.
There is nothing for me to say to you.
You’re blind by emotion. Only time will show the truth.
Do the organs of the US national security establishment really think that 20-year old trained PsyOps operators are the best liars in the world? People lie to us all day every day and the human race survives because most of us manage not to be taken in by perpetual lies when our personal lives and fortunes are at stake. When we hear the same narrative over and over again do they think it doesn't send shivers up our spines that maybe it's just a narrative, you know, a story and not a very good one at that?
You are aware that Trump colludes with Russia, right? You do know that?
Think about it.
Ukrainian young men being poorly trained and led to slaughter.
What next? Millions of Muslim migrants brought in to replace them.
WHITE Men are the target.
Tell me I am wrong.
He’s like Macron. Once popular, now a tyrant with a rooftop helicopter waiting.
If this fight has gone on this long, UKR simply cannot win unless they spark a NATO nuclear war - which Zelenskyy is perfectly willing to do.
Nice non-answer. Soviets lost in Afghanistan.
“explain how the Soviets lost in Afghanistan”
The Soviets lost in Afghanistan for the same reasons the US military lost in Afghanistan and Vietnam.
The locals are willing to fight harder and more importantly longer than outsiders with no vested reason to stay.
As long as Zelenskyy keeps lining up fresh bodies to massacre, the West is only too happy to provide cluster bombs and other barbaric devices to kill ‘em. Pretty easy and profitable to send conveyor belts of humans off to slaughter while you collect all the gold and silver along the way. War is business is business is booming.
And all the heretofore saintly anti-war peaceniks all sit by quietly while we send cluster bombs and other material to keep the slaughter humming along. You see, this time it’s different. It’s “justified”. No need to raise the specter of bringing about peace. Heck no, that might somehow help Trump and the MAGA crowd and everything, and I mean everything, is subservient to that sole and supreme political agenda.
Propaganda by Bernays is a good read…
US and other countries are training Ukrainian troops to western standards.
U.S. Will Train More Ukrainian Troops, Adding Advanced Battle Tactics
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/15/world/europe/ukraine-troops-training-pentagon.html
This could easily degenerate into another Vietnam until the nukes fly. Good thing we’re low on ammo..
Which is why I want us to have no part of it.
For UKR to “win” in Ukraine means it will have to go back to the 4th Century and mud huts - like Afghanistan. Either that or be a part of a nuclear war Zelenskyy goads.
Me either.
Me either.
Ukraine is participating in the genocide of its own people. Russia and the West, with the Biden Administration leading the effort, are also to blame.
“For UKR to ‘win’”
Ukraine has nuclear bomb ‘know how’.
Ukraine could team up with Taiwan to make nuclear weapons for both.
The “usual suspects” cheering on a massive white on white war.
Then the “demographic damage” becomes the rationale for even more mass third world immigration.
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