Posted on 09/29/2024 6:15:32 PM PDT by delta7
Two and a half years since the war began, we’ve finally come to the point where most of the Mockingbird Media is ready to call it quits, and openly admit the obvious: Russian Federation troops are winning the war.
Even in their cheerleading for Kiev, they have to admit that ‘if Ukraine and its Western backers are to win, they must first have the courage to admit that they are losing.’
The Economist reported:
“A measure of Ukraine’s declining fortunes is Russia’s advance in the east, particularly around the city of Pokrovsk.
[…] Ukraine is also struggling off the battlefield. Russia has destroyed so much of the power grid that Ukrainians will face the freezing winter with daily blackouts of up to 16 hours. People are tired of war. The army is struggling to mobilize and train enough troops to hold the line, let alone retake territory. There is a growing gap between the total victory many Ukrainians say they want, and their willingness or ability to fight for it.”
Another unmistakable realization is that abroad, ‘fatigue is setting in’, be it in Germany and France or in the United States.
“If Mr Zelensky continues to defy reality by insisting that Ukraine’s army can take back all the land Russia has stolen since 2014, he will drive away Ukraine’s backers and further divide Ukrainian society. Whether or not Mr Trump wins in November, the only hope of keeping American and European support and uniting Ukrainians is for a new approach that starts with leaders stating honestly what victory means.”
It’s become obvious that he does not have the men or arms to turn the war around.
In a different report, the same The Economist has to state that “With his army gradually losing ground, his people’s enthusiasm for the war flagging and Western support in doubt, Mr. Zelensky is in a bind.”
The article reminds Western readers that ‘since Ukraine recaptured the city of Kherson in late 2022, it has made almost no progress repelling Russia’s invasion’.
The summer offensive in 2023 was a failure, and now Moscow is closing in on several more Ukrainian strongholds in Donetsk, including Pokrovsk and Ugledar.
Another harsh reality they start to face is the attacker’s huge advantage in firepower, especially now with glide bombs, which are guided munitions of up to 3 tons that can flatten defensive positions and slaughter troops.
“Russia [has launched] nine waves of attacks from March to August against Ukraine’s power plants and electricity grid. It has hit targets in almost every province under Ukrainian control, according to a recent UN report. This onslaught took out some 80% of Ukraine’s coal- and gas-fired generation.”
At this point, 77% of Ukrainians say a friend or acquaintance has died in the war, while 22% have lost a relative.
That is not all, because Some 6.5m people – almost a fifth of the population – have fled the country.
And who are the people that Kyiv expects to turn this around? Old – for war – conscripted people with an average age of 45 years old, whose training standards have reportedly been so poor that not all of them know how to hold a weapon.
Military Watch Magazine reported::
“The Ukrainian Army is suffering from a continued decline in the capabilities of its frontline units, as losses among trained and experienced units have fuelled a fast growing reliance on conscript units with very limited operational capabilities.”
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Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi says that recruits ‘have consistently proven to lack necessary training for frontline operations’.
Senior conscription officer: “Out of 100 people who joined the units last fall, 10-20 remain, the rest are dead, wounded or disabled.
Ukraine’s troops and their commanders are growing concerned over manpower problems, particularly the quality of new recruits and the speed at which they are injured or killed in combat.
…] The new conscripts lack basic combat skills and motivation and often abandon their positions when they come under fire.
[…] The commanders estimated that 50 to 70 percent of new infantry troops were killed or wounded within days of starting their first rotation.
‘When the new guys get to the position, a lot of them run away at the first shell explosion’.”
Since the a new conscription law in May, Ukraine has managed to to draft about 30,000 soldiers a month – mostly by force.
“But commanders on the ground and military analysts have warned that the newly drafted troops are not highly motivated, are psychologically and physically unprepared — and are being killed at an alarming rate as a result.”
The remaining seasoned soldiers die too quickly and are being replaced by older men without experience and in worse physical shape.
“’Some of them don’t even know how to hold their rifles. They peel more potatoes than they shoot bullets’, he said, adding that he had bought paintball equipment to replace rifles and live rounds so that new recruits could get more practice without wasting precious ammunition.”
So when will Russia take over the Ukraine? This month, next month... Next year... The year after?
Putin promised that Ukrainians would welcome Russians with open arms and the entire country would be in Russian control within a matter of weeks... That was two and half years ago... So exactly when will that happen?
We have given them billions and billions of dollars. And huge amounts of weaponry. And they currently consider ammunition for their rifles to be precious? I sure hope Zelenksy and his Big Shot friends bought nice houses with the money we sent over there. Sure didn't spend it all on the war.
I find something rather odd - (and I do not deny there are old guys fighting for Ukraine - their version of the draft only recently even began to seriously look at younger men - kind of odd... then I got to looking - an Russia has done almost the exact same thing. There have been a LOT of old Russian guys killed on the battlefield and capture as POWs.
It has been really odd seeing how old a LOT of the cannot fodder has been on both sides.
There have been a LOT of promises made by the US and the West that haven’t been fully delivered on. Also - lots of ammo USED.
The MSM are the idiots that kept this fiasco going for so long. Their dumbassary has kept this war going for thousands of pallets of U.S. bucks while America has been overrun by azhos from all over the world.
As reality settles in...
Ukraine is taking folks by force off the streets or from their homes, stuffing them in a uniform and giving them about 4 - 6 weeks training in “totality” before sending them off to die in a trench essentially.
The average age of their conscript is something like 46 at this point. Many would never pass a medical or physical screening to see if they are truly fit for duty, but who is really looking?
Put them in a hole and tell them to fight and die in place.
Horrible stuff. Stories not told.
It’s been going on for a while. But our MSM is just now slowly coming around to reporting on some of these things, a little bit.
My favorite part is Z trying to dictate settlement terms to Putin. Hysterical.
Maybe they have thought about their desire for a nuclear war and decided it might not be a good idea after all.
Right now close to 1500 Russian soldiers are either dying or being seriously wounded every day. Many of them lack training and are thrown into "meat assaults" to capture a few hundred yards of some farm field.
In 2024 Ukraine has captured more territory in Russia than the Russian army has captured in Ukraine.
Reality is a bitch. The MSM is realizing that cheerleading for a hopeless cause just results in more death and destruction. They will no longer be able to maintain the charade that Ukraine is winning or even that the conflict is deadlocked. Russia is winning and the results will soon be obvious to everyone.
It is immoral to keep prolonging this proxy war.
They’ll try to get it wrapped up before Trump gets in. Watch, it’ll be a “miracle”. Can’t have the orange man getting credit.
First time I saw Zelenskyy, I knew he was a little creep.
Female intuition?
And he only gets worse. Why we gave him even 39 cents is a mystery.
Well, not really a mystery. Congress is full of paid-off grifters including Mike Johnson.
Trump gets in —it will be over by February or March. Harris gets in and it will be over by Next August with the fall of Kiev. Each case Putin wins. When thee truth comes out what happening in Ukraine will be ugly and mean. Zelenskyy will be running a Seven-Eleven in Miami Beach in a few years.
“In 2024 Ukraine has captured more territory in Russia than the Russian army has captured in Ukraine.”
Who the hell cares? The point of the article is this trivial territorial gain you’re bragging about isn’t worth the cost. You must be another one of those proud, arrogant Ukrainian nationalists infesting this forum.
Not a good sign when you've lost the normally Youke cheerleading, leftist/globalist organ "The Economist."
Youcrayne - Electrical grid: Destroyed. Town after town: Destroyed: ~A million Youke men and boys: Killed and maimed. A quarter of Youcrayne's population: Left and never to return. Youcrayne's "government": broke and kept afloat only by Americans' tax dollars. Youcrayne's GDP: Essentially nonexistent. (No, bribery, grift, proceeds from human trafficking etc. and cash/bling from wholesale corruption doesn't count toward GDP.) I could go on and on. . .
As I’ve said since November 2022 - Ukraine won (past tense) the war back when it defeated Russia in the battle for Kyiv.
That was the headshot that Putin went for - and missed.
The Ukrainian people who we still are in contact with still do not want to surrender as they know that Putin wants to obliterate them. They were far more amenable to de facto (if not de jure) writing off the Donetsk PEople’s republic and the Luhansk People’s republic and Crimea back in Jan 2022, but after Feb they realized that Putin will come back again and again in salami tactics so no long-term peace with Russia is possible.
First time I saw Zelenskyy, I knew he was a little creep.
Female intuition?
And he only gets worse. Why we gave him even 39 cents is a mystery.
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All one had to do was follow his history, dig deeper. A comedian, a Hollywood dreamer. Dancing around naked in high heels, playing a piano with his penis- was the first indication, and drugs no doubt. An immoral, corrupted creep.
Add to that the government of Ukraine system based on corruption, senile Joe’s son ( and other democrats dealings with the Ukie banking system), and his winning his election based on quote “ making peace with Russia”….then after election the high number of Neo- Nazis in his government….and on and on.
All these facts went unreported by western MSM, as did the Maidan incident ( US’s overthrowing of the elected president Yanukovych).
Ukraine and the US is paying a high price for their meddling and deception. Ukraine has flat lined, and will cease to be a viable country in the years ahead….
compliments of a senile old man that was sitting in the WH, and everyone bought into it. Nuland and McCains “ Project Ukraine” failed, miserably, and the smucks who supported war will suffer for it, as we are witnessing.
I seen that repeated often. Do you have a source for the promise as stated?
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