Posted on 01/07/2024 7:51:49 AM PST by delta7
The war in Ukraine continues to grind on and Ukrainian troops are falling back all across the 600 mile front. Not a good start to the New Year for Zelensky and the future is bleak at best. Russia is methodically destroying Ukrainian factories set up to manufacture military tactical clothing, ammunition, drones and vehicles. Repair facilities also have been hit and obliterated. Ditto for military training facilities aka bases. Ukraine’s recent use of cluster munitions on Belgorod and Donetsk killed a few civilians but enraged Putin and his military commanders. In response Russia has unleashed a devastating series of missile, drone and rocket attacks across the breadth of Ukraine and vowed to keep doing so. So much for Western hopes of building manufacturing plants in Ukraine to keep it in the war.
Panic among Western analysts about Ukraine’s looming defeat has escalated. Robert Clark, writing in the U.K. Telegraph, wailed his lamentation in an op-ed titled, Ukraine’s new year may end with a brutal Western betrayal. Clark blames Western leaders for Ukraine’s debacle:
The mood in 2024 is very different. The counter-offensive failed to deliver a decisive blow to Putin’s forces in the south. Russia’s economy has withstood Western sanctions, rapidly militarising to provide an ongoing stream of munitions to the front. Ukraine, meanwhile, is undergoing one of the largest aerial bombardments since the war began, and its united front is beginning to fray as conscription takes its toll. . . .
To turn our backs now on the Ukrainian people, so swiftly after months of brutal fighting, is morally bankrupt and strategically negligent.
It is understandable, if not forgivable, that governments have begun questioning their levels of commitment to a deeply destructive war with no end in sight. At best there now appears to be a likely short to medium term stalemate across much of the 1,000 kilometre front line.
Meanwhile, Western economies and budgets are still grappling with recovery from the pandemic and last year’s energy shock. Global supply chains are still in flux, and as the Middle East flares up the Houthis are increasingly able to dictate the terms of trade and passage in the Red Sea, delivering another blow to a fragile global economy.
And the proverbial elephant in the Ukraine war room – a Republican administration potentially returning to the White House in twelve months-time – raises the spectre of a sudden stop to American funding. Even the current Biden administration has struggled with a mutinous Congress. In the EU, meanwhile, Viktor Orbán has been blocking the transfer of funds. Clark, who served previously in the British Army, didn’t learn a damn thing during his time in Iraq and Afghanistan. He ain’t fighting goat herders and camel jockeys. (Come to think of it, those camel jockeys kicked Western ass.) He continues, like many other delusional Western analysts, to insist the current state of the war is a stalemate. How is it a stalemate when Russia is outproducing Ukraine and all of the NATO countries in tanks, artillery shells and drones and is building up its standing Army to the tune of 42,000 men per month? While Putin’s war machine is on a roll, Ukraine can’t even come up with a workable plan to conscript new cannon fodder. Word to Clark, this ain’t a stalemate bud.
Colonel Jacque Baud, a Swiss officer, a strategic intelligence and a former head of the United Nations peace operations doctrine, is not saddled with the analytical deficiencies of Mr. Clark. Baud is author of a new book, The Russian Art of War: How the West Led Ukraine to Defeat, and presents a detailed breakdown of Ukraine’s hopeless task. He summarizes the problem succinctly:
The problem with the vast majority of our so-called military experts is their inability to understand the Russian approach to war. It is the result of an approach we have already seen in waves of terrorist attacks—the adversary is so stupidly demonized that we refrain from understanding his way of thinking. As a result, we are unable to develop strategies, articulate our forces, or even equip them for the realities of war. The corollary of this approach is that our frustrations are translated by unscrupulous media into a narrative that feeds hatred and increases our vulnerability. We are thus unable to find rational, effective solutions to the problem. . . .
The reason the Russians are better than the West in Ukraine is that they see the conflict as a process; whereas we see it as a series of separate actions. The Russians see events as a film. We see them as photographs. They see the forest, while we focus on the trees. That is why we place the start of the conflict on February 24, 2022, or the start of the Palestinian conflict on October 7, 2023. We ignore the contexts that bother us and wage conflicts we do not understand. That is why we lose our wars… The Postil has posted the first chapter of his book and it is must reading for anyone wanting to understand why Ukraine and the West is getting its ass handed to it in this war. Kudos to Baud.
I will leave you some of the latest video evidence about the waning fortunes of Ukrainian troops.….video.
To turn our backs now on the Ukrainian people, so swiftly after months of brutal fighting, is morally bankrupt and strategically negligent. . . . . . . . . Why WHY is it OUR responsibility? Ukraine could have sued for peace, and settled this thing quickly. WE egged them on. If this were a street fight, every time the little guy got knocked down, we would hand him brass knuckles, or a baton. We end up giving them Missiles, bombs and I will bet, more than a handful of American soldiers lives.
AGREED
The weird syntax and clumsy sentence structure's a match.
Wonder if next we'll begin hearing about his search for a "trophy babe" and how nice and peaceful and wonderful it is in Ukraine?
Nice chart!
Oh yeah, that definitely smells like a retread or a throwaway account for an existing zeeper. Post 12 pretty much spills the beans on that one.
Biden’s and all US warmongers’ hands are steeped in blood.
Meanwhile I will stick to my mission which is to stalk Armstrong and show you how useless his contributions are.
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At least you admit your “ mission”. As I have stated, I started following Armstrong twenty years ago, and have benefited greatly. Sorry you have not.
You do have the option of not reading his material, do so at your own risk.
From one Pureblood to another, interesting chart you assembled. I noticed I lead with amount of replies per post- as they say, the flak ( naysayers) increases when over the target.
I would love to see a chart of Ukie war supporters who were also sucked into senile Joe’s vax scam and shutdowns, opposed to the Purebloods who saw through senile Joe’s vax scam and Ukie war.
In my neck of the southern woods, the biggest Ukie war supporters still wear masks! That says a lot about them.
Sounds more stalker than troll.. Lol!
Yes. There was a time where premier onfo flowed from experts galore here. Can be again.
Most here are junior, mere youngsters in a few ways. Us old timers have forgotten more historical fact than you have “ learned” in all your days.
My Profile.
“delta7
Since Sep 21, 2002”
So, junior, how long have you been posting? I suspect you weren’t even around on 9/11….please do correct me if my assumption is wrong.
Hello.
Yep. He comes right out and says he’s all about stalking Armstrong. Kind of makes my skin crawl.
People who are fixated and obsessed like that give me the creeps.
Looks like a zot to me
What happened to the Russian military to mobilize all of the propaganda posters?
Could it be the Ukrainian strike on Russia's air defense officers in Crimea?
Ukraine can get rid of them for us by launching them at Russian military concentrations.
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