Previous day’s thread: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4200472/posts
Summarizing this war:
A tragedy for Ukraine.
A disaster for RuZZia.
A strategic win for the USA.
“Why Internet Trolls Do What They Do and How to Spot Russian Fakes”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLtBzvw0—0
“Here is the best-kept secret about U.S. military aid to Ukraine: Most of the money is being spent here in the United States. That’s right: Funds that lawmakers approve to arm Ukraine are not going directly to Ukraine but being used stateside to build new weapons or to replace weapons sent to replace weapons sent to Kyiv from U.S. stockpiles. Of the $68 billion in military and related assistance Congress has approved since Russia invaded Ukraine, almost 90 percent is going to Americans, one analysis found.”
https://twitter.com/TheDeadDistrict/status/1730119780873441750
Kremlin snuff box, (Russian Blogger)
Gerasimov was accused of negotiations with Ukraine and the fact that our army is fighting poorly near Avdiivka. He responded with words about heroism and 2,000 dead soldiers.
The head of the General Staff is facing difficult times, which please his enemies, including Sergei Shoigu. But Valery Gerasimov does not give up.
Firstly, Valery Vasilyevich had to respond to the words of journalist Seymour Hersh that the head of the General Staff was allegedly conducting secret peace negotiations with the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny.
“I am not conducting any negotiations. This Hersh is just an idiot. Or someone paid him,” Gerasimov said in personal communications with several generals from his inner circle.
At the same time, he decided not to mention that he tried several times to contact Kiev back in the summer and transmitted signals through the Americans.
The head of the General Staff did not receive any answers from Ukraine to proposals for negotiations.
Let us note that Gerasimov has repeatedly given reasons for suspicion.
In particular, he proposed to give Tokmak and Artemovsk (Bakhmut) to the enemy in order to preserve the personnel of our army.
They didn’t listen to him then.
But the fact that there are no negotiations between Gerasimov and Zaluzhny was confirmed to us by six sources in the General Staff and the Ministry of Defense, including those whom we trust one hundred percent.
True, the fact that there are no negotiations does not mean that rumors about them are not used against the head of the General Staff.
Secondly, Shoigu directly accused Gerasimov of the fact that our army is failing the SVO. According to sources in the General Staff, a meeting was recently held with the participation of the country's military command.
There Gerasimov stated that our troops advanced in the Avdiivka area and achieved success in Marinka, practically taking control of the city.
“What are you telling me? You command the army disgracefully! Avdiivka was not taken before December 1, as Vladimir Vladimirovich wanted, the President’s order to recapture the entire DPR by the end of the year will also not be fulfilled.
"And in the Kherson region we retreat and hide it. Step aside and let the normal generals take charge!”, the Minister of Defense addressed the head of the General Staff.
Gerasimov reacted sharply to these words.
And Shoigu said that
just near Avdiivka (this is data as of the morning of Friday, December 1) more than 2,000 military personnel died in a week. And the army fights heroically and does everything possible.
And this is in conditions when “it is unclear how many fighters will remain at the front soon - due to losses and possible partial demobilization.”
One of the meeting participants told us that “it’s good that it was held online, otherwise Gerasimov and Shoigu would have attacked each other.”
By the way, Vladimir Putin reacted calmly to the failure to fulfill his order to take Avdiivka by December 1, but made it clear to the military that he was expecting serious victories at the front.
The President did not take part in the meeting at which Gerasimov and Shoigu quarreled.
