Posted on 05/29/2022 8:08:29 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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With Russia’s war in Ukraine now in its fourth month, mainstream media consumers have been treated to seemingly endless headlines and analysis of Russia’s extensive military losses. At the same time Ukrainian forces have tended to be lionized and their battlefield prowess romanticized, with essentially zero public information so far being given which details up-to-date Ukrainian force casualties, set-backs, and equipment losses.
But for the first time The Washington Post is out with a surprisingly dire and negative assessment of how US-backed and equipped Ukrainian forces are actually fairing. Gone is the rosy idealizing lens through which each and every encounter with the Russians is typically portrayed. WaPo correspondent and author of the new report Sudarsan Raghavan underscores of the true situation that “Ukrainian leaders project an image of military invulnerability against Russia. But commanders offer a more realistic portrait of the war, where outgunned volunteers describe being abandoned by their military brass and facing certain death at the front.”
As many careful and less idealistic observers suspected the whole time, a steady stream of both wartime propaganda and one-sided social media feeds where it seems the only tanks being blown up are Russian ones has served to present a very skewed portrayal of the battlefield to the Western public. While it’s perhaps easier to get sucked into this pro-Ukraine bias based on the innumerable so-called open source intelligence self-anointed ‘experts’ on Twitter, this is less so if one wades into Telegram, where a flood of uncensored videos from both sides gives a truer picture, as the fresh report seems to also suggest…
Funny how shortly after the $40 billion check clears, the narrative shift begins.
Another 40 billion dollars down the drain. We could have used that money for something useful...like building transgender bathrooms for kindergartners
Fish.
I would if Putinists glee for dead Ukrainians wasn't so blatant and orgiastic in nature.
Luckily, the experience will leave them spent and depressed when the news (already coming in) turns and shows the Putinist armed forces they worship still suck.
Stop blaming “the other guy” for your trashy comments using sex to mock those you don’t agree with.
I got tired of waiting so I hit the hay.
The facts are that this war was in the making since Obama infested the White House.
Russia, Russia, Russia. That's all we heard. Does anyone think hat maybe that countries leaders had enough listening to that crap?
The Ukraine has always been an area of contention..throughout history. The historical perspective of the Ukraine has been explained by many here, but it doesnt make sense to those who have no sense.
Fact is..the Slavic people are stubborn, uncontrollable, rebellious, and barbarous. Always have been, and maybe always will be.
Only since the fall of the USSR has that area started to move towards a more free and settled society. With this war, that all has been set back decades.
The Ukraine isnt our problem. And while the focus is on the Ukraine exclusively..look at what is happening in Pakistan, the Pacific Rim, the Indian Ocean (Sri Lanka) and Africa.
BTW, always the opportunist, the Russians have moved to send aid to Sri Lanka. WTH have we done? Whats that make us look like to the world?
So lets skin another 40 billion out of us slaves here in the USA to send war materials to the Ukraine for a fight that is a losing battle. Cant send a couple million to the Indian Ocean though for humanitarian aid.
BTW. You want to piss them off? Call it THE UKRAINE. Not just Ukraine.
Freepers don’t seem to understand how the 2nd most powerful military in the world could subdue a minor player. 🤔
“In Stunning Shift, WaPo Admits Catastrophic-Conditions”
Amazing how the Western Media has to LIE to us to, even moving towards the truth.
How about a ‘Stunning Shift’ of Western War Propaganda, now that the $40B is secured?
Our ENTIRE MEDIA knew that Russia was rolling up land, day-in and day-out, since this started. They’re not as dumb as they claim.
Russia won a long time ago, we’ve been watching mop up operations which the MSM has been propagandizing as overwhelming UK victories.
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This.
We had better real time coverage during WW2 than the current war. Think about that one
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Accurate real-time coverage is available, but not from the state media in the West.
The reflexive Russia-haters censor and scream epithets. Even after a peace is negotiated, they will continue to support the next current thing and when tribunals take place, they will deny everything.
We had them during & after WWII, as well. Good Americans of German descent still groused about “Poor Mr. Hitler” and sent their kids to Turners, which were the youth wing of The Bund.
My husband’s German side went to their graves refusing to believe Germany lost or was at fault. Quietly, of course, because profits needed to be made, but they never relented.
USA: Will fight for baby formula.
...against a determined Chinese incursion.
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The same young kids who ran crying after being sent to engage Indian forces?
At start of so-called phase 3 Russia controlled 30% of the Donbas now it controls 65% in another 3 months it will control 100% and Ukraine army is almost broken; don’t believe the news. Handing a weapon to a person does not make them a solider i.e. think of it as a team game Russia as a bigger team once main team of Ukraine is gone that is it; combat power goes down exponentially no matter what weapons you give them it takes time to learn, service etc. (They don’t make the parts supplied externally).
Stop giving these fools false hope, even MSM and Biden etc. are starting to get it. Anyone with a brain knew this from the start...this not some woke shit or game its special military operation...if it becomes war...Russia will just carpet bomb areas it won’t even come to that.
Let me tell you a secret, Putin holds all the cards...nothing is going to change the trajectory.
Your are a deadender; countries should not be led by deadenders; see what happens to Ukraine next couple of months. Zelensky thinks the world is going to pay for things or rescue him...it’s SAD but reality is beginning to sink in, Putin should have put the hammer down from the start, instead of instilling this false bravado in them. Even though Ukraine bought this on themselves with western backing and a fool of a leader...even his men fighting are beginning to see it, the normal grunts. SAD.
Time to abandon this proxy war.
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