Posted on 08/14/2024 6:38:34 PM PDT by ransomnote
Also, what he says passes the sniff test more than what I hear from the ISW, CNN, NYT, WSJ, BBC, etc.
Still I would prefer it if I could find some news source that reported the failures and successes of both sides in the war. The closest I've come is Weeb Union who will report both Russian and Ukrainian successes, but despite this he does appear to be Russia-leaning. He bases his reporting on maps provided by Ukraine supporters so there is some balance there.
That was at the beginning of the SMO when Russia thought they had a deal with Zelensky and just needed to make a show of force to get Ukraine to submit.
Retreating from Kherson was the best idea, unlike what Ukraine did in failing to retreat from Bakhmut and losing so many troops in a losing cause.
There are reports overnight that the Ukrainians managed to target the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant with military weapons and actually damage the facility.
Several of the advance scout fast moving platoon sized elements were sent all over the Kursk area in multiple staggered times/directions in an attempt to reach the plant and cause damage in lieu of actual capture. Two nuke sabotage facility attemps in a 5 day period; multiple attempts in Kursk.
Zelinski and his crew are not going to be safe in England, Italy or the US, after they depart Kiev. They may be gone sooner than anyone realizes with this debacle.
Once the Kursk salient is contained and destroyed, Ukraine is going to get a taste of the gloves coming off by Russia.
August marks yet another decisive moment in the timeline of this war, another historic turning point. Nuclear terrorism.
Some people took issue with the terminology use and dismissed it. The legal framework of this Anti-terror Operation has expanded to Russia naming Zelinski, his advisors and inner circle, and the military officers and soldiers who executed these attacks as terrorists.
The Special Operation has become an Anti-Terrorist Operation. They didn’t take hostage nor capture Bin Laden, and for a long list of officials of Ukraine there is going to be a similar fate.
Russia believes that Ukraine has a dirty bomb where the radioactive materiels were product in the US, made by a process that the US exclusively uses, thus it can be traced.
There are also reports of Polish, English, Romanian, German and other unmentioned NATO country soldiers among the dead and captured which may shed more light. This may compliacate any NATO occupation of eastern Ukraine by military forces from it’s member states.
If you put the Ukrainian Government/Intelligence reporting side-by-side with the US/Britian it is like our MSM or 40 Black Churches reading off DNC propoganda talking points.
When you compare the Russian MOD to Ukraine, one proves to be much more accurate over time.
Ukraine is highly advanced in their PR warfare. They learned it from the best Psychological Operations Group in the US Army and from our Public Affairs training on the high side.
When the lies don’t work, double down, and remove elections to ensure a captive audiance.
Ukraine was nearly 40M people in 1991, and it is around 15M today - an unmitigated disaster of Obama’s and Biden’s making with 25M people leaving since 2014.
Created just in time to demoralize the Trump base.
quoted Bismark in their update: “Make alliances with anyone, start any kind of war, but never touch the Russians.”
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Alittle off of topic, interesting to note Bismarck and his government persecuted Christians, especially Catholics.
https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=8670
“ In a popular cartoon of 1875, the French artist and writer Felix Regamey lampooned the powerful Chancellor of Germany, Otto von Bismarck. In the cartoon, the Chancellor tries to pull a rope attached to St. Peter’s Basilica and declares to Satan that he intends to destroy the papacy. Satan replies, “I have been trying to do it all my life. If you manage it, I shall give you full marks.
Regamey’s cartoon was a humorous but biting expression of Catholic resentment and anger across Europe for one of the most forgotten events of the 19th century: the persecution and oppression of the Church at the hands of the German government under Kaiser Wilhelm I and his “Iron Chancellor” Bismarck. For a period of nearly 20 years, from 1871 to 1890, Catholics in the German Empire, especially in the German states of Prussia, Bavaria, Hesse, Baden, and occupied Poland, faced legal disabilities, imprisonment, and exile, all in the name of German national pride and unity. For their part, Catholics and Germans of good will fought for their rights, defended the Catholic faith and institutions, and above all, refused to allow a secular government to trample on the Holy See and their beloved pontiff Bl. Pius IX.…..much more.
unlike what Ukraine did in failing to retreat from Bakhmut and losing so many troops in a losing cause.
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Keep in mind this is a war amongst Slavs. Common blood, brothers. History shows they are fierce fighters, both Russian and Ukrainian- they will both fight on to the end, regardless of casualties.
That said, the sheer manpower, wealth and manufacturing base of Russia dictates the Federation of Russia will “ win”, a Win being defined as the one who loses the least……attrition, plain and simple.
The Pentagon stating we have not seen a war this violent since WW2 says much.
Ukraine was nearly 40M people in 1991, and it is around 15M today - an unmitigated disaster of Obama’s and Biden’s making with 25M people leaving since 2014.
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Very true, but never reported by western MSM. Also of note, Ukraine’s infrastructure has been absolutely destroyed, very little electricity now available, Ukraine officially declaring bankruptcy this month, trade and manufacturing gone, male population decimated, labor pool decimated, the list is long.
The battlefield is not determining much of anything, a slugfest. The much more important factor is the economic side, Ukraine’s economy is broken and busted, on life support dependent solely Western $$$ and arms.
I’m giving no one a pass. If I posted a spurious account I’d warrant similar criticism.
It’s not just that the “reporter” has a very checkered past. It’s that he has been consistently wrong.
Just before the invasion he made a great point of deriding US intelligence that predicted it. That set a pattern of blinkered partisanship that is his trademark.
I don’t believe I have any “buddies in Ukraine,” but again, if and when I shared the view of a pro-Ukrainian toady, feel free to have at.
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled My notes on Ukraine part of VIDEO | Ukr Pokrovsk Crisis, Rus: No Talks Kiev; Alaudinov: Kursk NPP Ukr Target, Failed; Iran Rejects US , Widget Jr wrote: 1. Both sides in this war tend to look at their favorite sources, downplay source on the other side, and claim they are "winning". Both sides talk about what they say the other side is or is not talking about, which may or may not be accurate, as if that means anything. 2. Mercouris says Russian sources say Western source are not talking about the Kursk NPP. Googling Kursk nuclear power plant shows Western news is talking about the Kursk NPP. 3. The big picture of how the war or any individual part of it is going is not "my side is winning / their side is losing". Neither side has claimed victory nor admitted defeat.
Regarding Kursk:
4: The AFU rate of advance is slowing, not stopping.
5 And now for some interesting news. The general in charge of Russian forces in Kursk is Aleksandr Lapin. He was the general in charge of Kherson who failed to stop Ukraine from taking Kherson back. This is a bad omen for Russia.
- AFU units are digging in, which shows they intend to hold ground.
- Russia has not mounted its main counter action to the Kursk operation yet.
- Russia has not driven back or wiped out the AFU out of Kursk. No matter what the Russian information space says, operational AFU units are still in Kursk.
Should Russia eventually expel the AFU from Kursk, it is going a while.
1. Both sides say whatever, and then the Ukrainians are exposed for lying extensively, while the Russians are more accurate, but still have bias.
2. Mercouris was pointing to the relative silence among the elites and their MSM when the Ukrainian attack unfolded. The Ukraine and the elites were pretending Zelensky was not there to attack nuke plants. WHen they were exposed throughout commentators and social media, they began saying more - not just tour guide 'there's a nuclear plant there'.
3. There's more to the big picture. There's who has what assets (air support, number of troops, number that are trained versus conscripts, who has air superiority etc.) and how are their populations being affected? (most of Ukrainian power grid is gone). For example, Russia has 15 times the number of aircraft compared with the Ukraine.
4. Sadly, the Ukrainian troops are trapped. Putin repositioned some of his troops when he was warned in advance that the Ukrainians were planning an attack. 6 days into the fight and the Russians had not sealed the border and more Ukrainians were flooding in, even though Putin has the troops to seal it. Putin didn't slow Russian advances throughout the Donbas to seal the border, nor deploy some of his troops. He let more Ukrainians stream in. Because, its a trap and the Ukrainians are in it. Andnow that they're trying to destroy the nuclear power plant, the world has turned against them. Zelensky's replacement has already been selected. Because groups of mercenaries with the Ukrainian soldiers have been shooting at civilians, civilian cars/ambulances/fire trucks, Putin has declared the incursion domestic terrorism. This means the gloves are off - they will not be afforded the rights of Prisoners of War.
5. From my notes on Alex Christoforou's video: 3 years of this war, the collective West/Ukraine is still hanging on to the propaganda narrative of the 'great' Kherson and the 'great' Kharkiv counter-offensive' wherein the Ukrainians rushed in and grabbed territory that was empty (no Russian troops) and claimed 'victory'.
MY NOTES ON RUMBLE VIDEO: Burning tires at ZNPP? Elensky reinforces Kursk. Maduro amnesty for presidency. UK, big tech penalty (Zelensky)
RUMBLE.com ^ | 8/12/2024 | Alexander ChristoforouPosted on 8/12/2024, 3:30:47 PM by ransomnote
The Russian invasion of Ukraine started February 24, 2022. The Kharkiv counteroffensive was from September 6 to October 1, 2022. They Battle of Kyiv ended in April 2022 with the Russian withdrawal. Your version of the peace talks is mixing Russian statements about the negotiations from the start of the invasion to after the Kherson counteroffensive was finished.
An yes, Russia did indeed capture Bakhmut. That is undeniably true. How did spending eighteen months to capture sixteen square miles turn out? The Russian hype was capturing Bakhmut would either open up Eastern Ukraine to Chasiv Yar, Kramatorsk, and all the way to the Dnipro River. The Russian army would steamroll across Ukraine or force Zelensky to negotiate on Russian terms to end the war. I don't remember any of that happening. Do you?
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