When The Lies Come Home

The American Conservative ^ | June 17, 2022 | Douglas MacGregor

[Cathi]

After lying for months, the media are preparing the public for Ukraine’s military collapse. It is long overdue.

The Western media did everything in its power to give the Ukrainian defense the appearance of far greater strength than it really possessed.

Russian errors were exaggerated out of all proportion to their significance. Russian losses and the true extent of Ukraine’s own losses were distorted, fabricated, or simply ignored. But conditions on the battlefield changed little over time. Once Ukrainian forces immobilized themselves in static defensive positions inside urban areas and the central Donbas, the Ukrainian position was hopeless. But this development was portrayed as failure by the Russians to gain “their objectives.”

Ground-combat forces that immobilize soldiers in prepared defenses will be identified, targeted, and destroyed from a distance. When persistent overhead intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets, whether manned or unmanned, are linked to precision guided-strike weapons or modern artillery systems informed by accurate targeting data, “holding ground” is fatal to any ground force.

This is all the more true in Ukraine, because it was apparent from the first action that Moscow focused on the destruction of Ukrainian forces, not on the occupation of cities or the capture of Ukrainian territory west of the Dnieper River.

The result has been the piecemeal annihilation of Ukrainian forces. Only the episodic infusion of U.S. and allied weapons kept Kiev’s battered legions in the field; legions that are now dying in great numbers thanks to Washington’s proxy war.

[rmlew]

I suspect that Russia will consolodate gains in DonBas and declare victory.

[rmlew]

Which Minsk Accords, there were two relevant accords. Habe you read both of them?
Assuming Ukraine violated teh 2014 and 2015 accords immediately, why did KGB Russia and its Stalinist proxies wait until 2022? Why didn't they immediately go to the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), France, ,and Germany to complain?
The reason is that you are repeating a Kremlin lie. KGB Russia waited until Europe was most vulnerable to the loss of natural gass before launching a campaign to conquer all of Ukraine.

Who had a son raking in 80 grand a month for his natural gas expertise, from 5,000 miles away?
1. If you don't know that Burisma is owned by Mykola Zlochevsky, a pro-Russian Oligarch, who had been part of the 2013 government, you should stop commenting and relying on Kremlin propoganda, until you learn basic facts.
If you did know, you should look in the mirror and ask yourself why you have become a propogandist and liar for the KGB.

[Cronos]

you’re right. Putin is desperately looking for a way out of his predicament.

[Gaffer]

I’m guessing Zelensky will next host an International Ukraine Telethon for Freedom. Maybe even do some crazy piano tricks....