You old fogeys don't get out much, do you? 
Posted on 05/07/2022 4:43:51 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said that a number of Russian generals and leading figures were "turning in on themselves" as they seek to avoid becoming fall guys for Putin's stuttering invasion.
Russian generals are reportedly “turning in on themselves” as the war in Ukraine continues to go not to plan in an effort to escape Putin’s wrath.
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said that Putin’s senior military brass were scrambling to dodge blame for the stuttering invasion.
He said they were blaming one another for the “disaster” of the war so far, and lived in terror of being purged if the “quagmire” turned into a retreat for the Kremlin’s forces, the Times reports.
Wallace said that military chiefs in the general staff were already scapegoats for Putin’s botched invasion.
He added: "Those in the military system were “always terrified they are about to be purged and pushed out."
Wallace made the comments whilst in Finland to observe a military exercise with British troops and tanks.
He also said that the generals were getting closer and closer to the frontline in an effort to try and “sort out this quagmire that they’re in”.
He said: “They do it by shouting and screaming at people but it tends not to get the best result.”
Most recently, reports said that General Valery Gerasimov, chief of the Russian general staff, had recently headed to the frontline in a highly unusual move.
According to a Russian news outlet, the 66-year-old general was injured by shrapnel during fighting in Izyum, eastern Ukraine and had to be evacuated.
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When Ben Wallace was asked if Gerasimov was being sent out as a “fall guy” the cabinet minister warned: “They’re all in fall guy territory.
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
Even Brandon isn’t bought and paid for enough to ignore a nuclear strike.
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0bama said he would ignore one or two nuclear hits, because the US was big enough to absorb them ...
Ukrainians being called ‘Nazis’ are called that because they were aligned with Germany in WW2 against Russia, so their definition of what constitutes a Nazis may differ somewhat from ours.
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BS - the Nazi word is applied by the Orc hierarchy to any group or entity that the Kremlin dislikes, and further, was pushed by Pootie Toot’s FSB buddy as a way to rouse popular support.
It boils down to the whole Azov/Ukraine Nazi meme is Orc propaganda and repeating it is to become a Orc stooge.
The Azov battalion openly sport Nazi tattoos and insignia, are extreme nationalists who burned down a church in Odessa full of Orthodox Russian worshippers, and committed many other heinous acts against Russian speakers. If not Nazis what do you prefer to call them? They are the worst sort of scum.
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More Orc trolling - you do follow the Kremlin script really well, something fewer and fewer people are buying.
As Scott Adams has taught us - beginning a sentence with “So” is a tell for cognitive dissonance. It means that you’re imputing something to your opponent that you just made up in your mind.
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So for the word ‘so’ substitute the word ‘therefore’. Feel better now, Mr. Pedant? Whoever “Scott Adams” is sucks raw rotten eggs.
Suppose the officers in charge skimmed off some of those Rubles in order to extend the new Dacha or buy that Mercedes?
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Highly doubtful Orc officers would NOT skim. Skimming and outright theft is and has been part of the Orc culture for at least 500 years.
He was talking out his a@@, as usual.
They haven’t even got a tranny admiral!
Ukraine: military situation update with maps, May 7, 2022
(’Orc ‘is associated with the various hoards of Mongol invaders, as well as LOTR evil villains)
War in Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP2QApi8G2TKc8NZmeDWSUg/videos
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**Frontline not much happening - very little changes
**Agricultural situation
Buckwheat and oats most planted.
**UA reinforcements: Is mega-shortage of military equipment and ammo. This is what is stopping UA from taking advantage of excess manpower over Orc invading force now. Desperation: are issuing Maxim machine guns from WWI; good tool but ... Also Soviet DP-27 machine guns.
**BTGs: It is a western construct that doesn’t really work, and not how war plays out. People in this part of world do not think in BTGs. The main Soviet Army subunit was Division (10,000) {for example}. But because there were no big wars, the RGF and UA switched to Brigade levels: 30-40% size of a Division (3000-4000). BTG is a step down from that level.
This was perception of West which had not fought a real war since WWII. This war is (garbled) intensity of WWII, so that’s why we see Brigade or Division fighting. This war is a game of many unknowns, essentially. Commanders don’t know where their troops are, troops have no idea what’s happening beyond their immediate sight, etc.
Westerners must look at units as they are, not as BTGs.
**Inside Orc Land:
There is no clear idea what to do now they are in this conflict. Nobody planned this Plan B of total disaster. Some high level generals are saying ‘capture all of Ukraine up to Polish border’. Another is saying ‘take what we’ve captured and the Izyum salient’. Others say ‘We need full mobilization and 600,000-800,000 conscripts’.
**Only clear Orc goal is to take the Izyum-Donetsk salient. Orcs do not have enough troops, at this moment, to continue active fighting every where - because they have suffered significant losses. First to fall, after the Kyiv withdrawal, was the Kharkiv front, leaving 6-8km buffer, but even that will be abandoned in a week or so.
Izyum region is the most active, but has seen no progress in days - despite heavy shelling and ‘tons’ of people dying every day on both sides. Like a WWI situation.
Zaporizhya and west is relatively inactive.
**Many UA troops are militia conscripts with little training and experience. Told to go somewhere an ‘just figure it out’.
**Orc forced (guys off the streets in captured UA towns and cities) conscripts are in same position: have Soviet helmets from WWII, and are being used to expose UA positions. When they atadcck many of them die but UA responses reveal their positions.
**Everything on frontlines, both sides are freezing in place for lack of resources.
**Weapons coming into Ukraine favors them in battle, BUT Lend-Lease law to be signed May 9th. However, total number of weapons coming in NOT sufficient. Example: of the German PzH-2000 self-propelled gun only 12 examples - less than a drop in a bucket. Does not look like the UA is going to get the UK AS-90 or US M-109 self-propelled guns.
New Lend-Lease Act For Ukraine Isn’t Same As Famed WWII Program
The Ukraine Lend-Lease Act definitely draws on the World War II program’s nostalgia, but there are critical differences between the two.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/new-lend-lease-act-for-ukraine-isnt-same-as-famed-ww-ii-program
*****This is, at this point, a War of Artillery.
Some UA troops haven’t used their rifles in a month or more because where they are there is no direct shooting, just arty. Most casualties are inflicted by arty and mortar fire. The 90 M-777s can create havoc for Orcs, but not turn tide for UA. Hopefully the Lend-Lease will change the amounts of heavy weapons arriving, but what was announced is totally insufficient.
**Orc VKS changing tactics because the UA has many more anti-air missiles: troops saturated with them, so VKS support going down fast. VKS/VVS helicopters are lobbing unguided missiles as far as they can to avoid anti-air missiles, so there are very poor results. Same with aircraft. Waning efforts. However, if UA launches offensive, Orcs will do what they must - even if means heavy losses of aircraft and helicopters.
Orc troops are saying ‘air support is totally over-rated, unless is direct hit by bomb, VKS is worthless’. Direct hit on UA stronghold very rare.
Summary:
Key areas:
- Izyum bridgehead - no expansion today.
- Russian troops are slowly mopping up corner between Oskil and Siverskiy Donets rivers controlled by Ukrainian side before. No changes today or yesterday.
- Zaporizhya frontline - no changes today.
- Ukrainian army has lost control over Rubizhne
- Russian troops are squeezing line around Severodonetsk and attempting to establish bridgeheads near Bilogorivka and Pryvillya.
1. Kharkiv: Ukrainian troops are slowly pushing Russian side out - they captured village of Lyptsi, Vesele. Russian is withdrawing its battle-worn troops from here to Russian territory.
**UA publicly announced offensive directly into Orc held forested territory - crazy idea. Would cut off Orcs south of Donets’ke and town of Izyum. And threaten or cut off Orc Izyum supply lines. Orcs successfully destroyed the two pontoon bridges. Execution of plan would have been a UA disaster.
2. Izyum bridgehead: No major Russian progress today. It is extremely dangerous penetration by Russian troops that potentially could lead to large pocket for Ukrainian troops west of Donetsk.
**WWI style warfare.
3. Lyman bridgehead. No changes today.
4. Popasna, Rubizhne and Severodonetsk. Russian troops captured all of Rubizhne. Popasna is about 50-60% captured by Russian troops.
**Rubizhne capture was very bloody for Orcs.
**Severodonetsk is overlook by high ground, making shelling of Orcs easy.
Russian mercenaries - Wagner Group operates in Popasna, also Russian 57 brigade operates there as well. Russian media outlets claim that RU troops captured all of Popasna, we are skeptical about that.
** Popasna: no good reason why UA would abandon good defensive position.
5. West of Donetsk: Avidyivka and Maryinka. Avdiyivaka - never ending attempts of the Russian side to break-through there. Russian forces captured village called Troitske, attacking towards Novobakhmutivka.
6. Vugledar is in Ukrainian hands.
7. Velyka Novosilka - Gulyapole stretch of frontline. Ukrainian strongholds are towns of Gulyaypole and village of Velyka Novosilka. Russian 19D is operating there. Russian troops are consolidating their gains. Also, 42D has been spotted in the area.
**Velyka Novosilka is the area where UA 110st and 109th new recruits were literally given Javelins and the like without any training or explanation on how to use them - told to figure it out.
___ this is where and how US resources are being wasted by incompetent UA commanders and generals.
That was the reason Orcs made a salient into UA lines, bath sides suffering significant losses.
Russian troops caputred village Vremivka attached to Velyka Novosilka from west and separate by small river. The most northern group of Russian troops has been stopped before village of Vilne Pole.
Ukranian side brought its 128 brigade and regiment Azov Kyiv to stop Russian advance there. No Russian progress here today.
8. No new attacks on Orikhiv.
9. Mariupol: opportunity to do a breakout attempt by the Ukrainian forces might have been lost as density of Russian troops increased due to smaller perimeter. Based on other sources, opportunity to break out is still viable.
10. Mykolayiv: No major changes.
**WWI arty situation.
Well, I think that rational Generals can justifiably point the blame finger at all the dead colonels and generals.
It seems obvious that they died in the process of losing
You old fogeys don't get out much, do you?
I fear Russian nukes, no doubt.
If you only knew how many hours I watched the big screens at NORAD Cheyenne Mountain as we ran scenarios of nuke war with the Soviets.
I remember telling a fellow airman that some day, some madman will press the button, and that’s it, lights out. I said this was inevitable.
When the Soviet Union fell, I was ecstatic that this outcome I had predicted was behind us. OR so I thought.
Regardless the outcome of the fighting in the Ukraine, I am extremely pissed at Putin and his nuclear threats; and any Russian supporter here, who often makes a good argument about Russian goals, turns me into an enemy when they approve of Russian nuclear threats, and the idea that the Russians could prevail in such an outcome.
If you’re conservative and oppose Biden’s support of Zelensky, well, good for you, and I am not picking a side, even though I thought Russia was wrong to invade. Doesn’t mean I want us to get involved. It’s not our fight.
BUT if you hail the nuclear threats from Russia, you are a GD bastad!
Who cares, troll?
YOU replied to ME, unbidden, you old fogey-troll.
YOU replied to ME, unbidden, you old fogey-troll.
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Indeed, why not, Mr. Spouter of Orc FUD?
The connoisseur of Orkrainian oysters weighs in...
The connoisseur of Orkrainian oysters weighs in...
Hey that’s pretty snappy. Did you come up with that phrase yourself (so good you had to post it twice). Or is it in one of your FSB talking point scripts?
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