If true then I have one question: Why after a month have the Russians not taken Kyiv? There is much uncertainties and propaganda on all sides but an undisputed fact is that Kyiv was a major objective and that the Russians have not taken it.
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I’m certainly no military expert, but why try to forcefully capture every neighborhood street by street and house by house when you can just cut off food, water, gas, medical supplies, and everything else that 21st century people need? It seems to me that there are two main phases where your army could take significant casualties: 1) in the contested phase where your military must defeat the opposing military to effectively gain supremacy of the skies and territory around major pop-centers, and then 2) actually trying to forcefully capture each city block-by-block. Number 1 is unavoidable, but number 2 is much more avoidable if time is on your side and you are patient.
Nor have they succeeded in isolating Kiev. They certainly tried, and arguably are still attempting to.
Most of Ukraine still has water electricity and gas.
Quite unlike our approach to Iraq and Afghanistan
A key piece of the Russian approach lost on quite a few here who claim Russia should have won in 24-48 hours
People here should study Grozny and how Russia attacked after failing with measured war
They haven’t done that in the Ukraine yet for a reason...they are under the glare nor do they want a ruined Ukraine ...I’m guessing
Many here see this as weakness or even defeat
I always point to Steve Harrigans report....ignored by the media tech machine ....weeks ago he said pointedly that Ukraine army is flattened ...its over ..that Putin is waiting for Zelensky to fall or accept terms ...terms he’s been insistent about for years
Nearly everything we hear is propaganda
This guy may be wrong but his opinions correlate with what we can see about where Russians are on the map and he’s right
Those convoys are sitting pretty now ever since a few days after the invasion largely unmolested
Uke army is ensconced among civilians not very viable ....not an uncommon tactic when on the ropes
And he’s western media is pushing the Ukes to go to the end ....easy for them to say
I mean the lies are just basically a tidal wave ...it’s rare to see a contradictory article like this one outside of Bannon or Tucker
And it’s not just neocons and their twin sisters the hard left
It’s also even some paleos like Paul Gottfried at Chronicles who I admire quite a lot....other paleos ..Taki....he apes Tucker .....Vdare...Sailor ...I
Brimlowe I haven’t looked ...but I will
I thing I can promise you is no matter how it ends and it will end with Ukraine signing off
Cold Warriors and neocons here wil still proclaim victory and link sites normally they claim to detest to back up their assertions
Meanwhile....our nation continues to erode ....this diversion is truly perfect for the deep state uniparty
The author brought up rightly we are about to add a woman of color to the Supreme Court who refused to define what is a woman , teaches white children to hate themselves and their birthright ....and has mercy for actual pedophies as victims too
She makes Kagan and Ginsburg look like Roberts ...moderate
All this over Putins mini me Zelensky as Winston Churchill and Ukraine as a democracy which is again as usual ....a damn lie
There is a wonderful book called https://www.amazon.com/Disease-Public-Mind-Understanding-Fought/dp/0306822954
Describes the abolitionist fanaticism and southern fears and how common sense vanished leading to cataclysm
That’s precisely what’s going on here
I live in franklin tn ....near there anyhow ....it’s a bucolic horsey burb south of Nashville
I drove into Nashville yesterday....the two most hard left areas are arguably
Sylvan Park
East Nashville ....nauseatingly progressive
Belmont area
All those areas have BLM and homosexual banners everywhere and other leftist hamfisted platitudes
Now there are Ukraine flags everywhere
If that doesn’t tell the average freeper the time of the day then like I just said
We are reliving the Disease In The Public Mind again