That’s quite a Zelensky picture...:-)
Instead of successfully “extending Russia” (”weakening, destabilizing and creating regime change”) per our ordered and paid for 2019 Rand Plan and this, despite our religiously engaging in every provocative suggestion they made for creating conflict, chaos and military conflict in multiple regions of the world that Russia had supported, the result has been complete failure.
We even on our own added in the “biggest sanctions program in history” and still we were thwarted and it actually backfired on us. Russia is thriving; the West is disintegrating.
Then we doubled down and even though we had spent 7 years training and supplying Ukraine’s military forces we recognized that we needed to do more so we literally took over the war on Ukraine’s behalf...repeatedly sending more powerful weapons from our own stock (much go the frustration of our own troops who had to surrender their much vaunted Carl Gustaf 8.4 cm recoilless rifles and their own in-use HIMARS) until the cupboard was bare. Though we have promised to provide a lot more in a year of two once our MIC can produce them. We even did what we always do...send in “advisors” and pretend we haven’t...a staple of every conflict we have been in.
But, still success eluded us despite the fact that we even threw in terrorist attacks in Ukraine and even in Russia itself to install the fear that would surely make them relent. And we tried again to build a whole new Ukrainian army training them by the tens of thousands in NATO countries so they couldn’t be found and attacked. And then we devised a GREAT counter offensive to use our new forces (supplied with brand new equipment and led by the greatest military in history, the United States Pentagon.)
Absolutely no real success in our initial battle in Kherson though we did absorb horrific casualties. We soldiered on in Kharkov where Russia was thinly forced with Rosgvardia security forces. We overwhelmed Russia’s tiny, non-combat forces who quickly developed corridors to get the hell out of there. Finally, we had the evidence that we were the superior fighting force and we were “beating Russia” and “we were winning.” We tried to hide our disappointment that we still suffered huge casualties and Russia suffered almost none. Damn those Russians...guess they remember that quote from General Patton: “Be seated. Now, I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his
country.”
Hmm... and now Shoigu comes out and announced the up to date casualty figures for both sides. Ukraine has already lost half of its army, 61,207 are dead and 49,368 wounded - Russian Defense Minister Shoigu.
UPDATE: Russian losses stand at 5,937 dead.
It turns out that the only thing all our escalations achieved is driving Russia into a dramatic escalation of their own which was announced today.
So now we wait for a miracle that will enable us to maintain our long held world hegemony. What was that Putin said? “The United States thinks they are God’s representative here on earth.”
Perhaps things will improve if we just buckle down and throw in some additional U.S. forces.
It never ceases to amaze me that you people are willing to take Russian government press releases as gospel yet think everything published in the West is propaganda. You people live in your own little mental bubble, and that bubble is tiny.