How has the WSJ come to know this? Or is it just propaganda?
May be the best fake story of the day.
If Russia wanted to break the place....they could do it in a day......
Oh? Because the news is omnipresent and omniscient. Like God, only without Grace, Redemption, or Forgiveness.
But it does get a great number of worshipers.
They never use the Q(uagmire) word unless it’s the United States or Israel. Strange.
Funny, Suddenly the wsj, nyt and washington compost are unquestionable sources for the truth. What’s next? cnn, msnbc and axio?
It’s just propaganda is suspect.
The WSJ telepath has once again penetrated the Kremlin mental defenses.
Quagmire, I heard that somewhere before.
Not very credible at all.
We are getting a one sided picture. At one point RT was even being censored, not sure if it still is. All our media is lockstep at this point, as it was with Covid, Iraq, global warming, the election results and Biden winning... You have to go out of your way to find something that actually reports the other perspective or is first person and not just the 100th third person account of the same initial report. Our media sucks. Weak on facts and reporting, full of dimwitted analysis, and always on some bandwagon.
I do not know where things are exactly because of the shitty western biased propaganda we call news 24/7.
But I do know this as a fact. If the Russians wanted to, they could have rolled Ukraine up fast. The delays you see is because they are trying to avoid the total destruction of that place. No one wants that.
What this guy calls a quagmire is actually showing a complex order of battle where they are dealing with an asymmetric fight (hard), in urban areas (hard), using combined, joint and national assets (high level of planning and coordination), dealing with information operations against them never before even dreamed possible in magnitude (all state and private media in the West), and at the same time conduct negotiations etc.
Frankly, this “quagmire” is something which none of our NATO allies would be able to pull off. Not one. The French and the UK would be able to do this at a mini scale but not even come close in the scope of what the Russians are doing.
Sometimes people don’t see what is actually going on. Based off the limited public information, it appears the Russians are seizing key infrastructure, going after Ukraine’s force projecting capabilities, command and control, communications, and their government. It appears they are doing things which place them in a position of dominance at the negotiating table, and they planned that from day one.
***The Russian end state is to ensure Ukraine does not join the EU and NATO.***
That was their reason for going to war and that was clearly articulated.
Their objective is not to take and hold ground (although they might do some of that too), seize a flag at a capital, capturing some leader... all things people typically associate with winning. They have a political objective and their armed services are doing the “arm twisting” to ensure the other side is more willing to negotiate.
How has the WSJ come to know this? Or is it just propaganda?
Obviously, the author Thomas Grove was in the room and observed Putin look down a long table at his defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, and saw Shoigu nod in assent. Or perhaps Grove is capable of doing "remote viewing" as some psychics do. /s
Journalists (and many Freepers) use Ouija boards, remote viewing, witches brews and dowsing to read minds.
Science!