Vladimir Putin PURGES top general over Ukraine war disaster as Russia’s losses now ‘could be as high as 50,000 soldiers’

VLADIMIR Putin has purged his top general over a mass loss of troops in Ukraine as Russia's losses are now said to be as high as 50,000.

Colonel-General Andrey Serdyukov, 60, was ditched for the devastating “mass casualties” among Putin's elite paratroopers, it has been alleged.

The speculation comes as a Russian source is said to have suggested the country’s overall losses in Ukraine are close to 50,000 - significantly higher than most other estimates.

You need to do a little more research.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNzh7EoxyD4

Larry Johnson:

The covert action part let me just give you some context. I joined the CIA in September of 85. I was in what was called the Career Trainee program and that program was designed to bring in a select group of new CIA hires and give them a complete overview of everything and what the agency did and as part of that we were given 8 week internships where we went to different parts of the organization. In my case I was put into the AF/AN task force. This was the directorate entity operate that was running the covert action in Afghanistan when the Soviets were there. The unit I was working with our job was to create video tapes and plant magazine stories and then create a narrative and my one contribution then was we had T-shirts printed up that were passed out on the beaches of Monte video and Punta del esta. And it showed all these forlorn children refugees, women and it said, “These children can’t go home for Christmas.” Now apart from the fact they are Muslim and didn’t celebrate Christmas, the point was we’re putting that message out there. They’re newspaper articles being planted and the one newspaper guy hated the CIA, he was convinced the CIA was behind everything and yea, we were putting stories in his magazine he didn’t realize were from us.

But, there is that narrative; but you reach a point that you can’t keep putting lipstick on the pig and and telling them it is Marilyn Monroe because the reality emerges and that’s the thing that has been frustrating me from the outset on this. They kept saying the Ukrainians are doing this, the Ukrainians are doing that and this era of social media....where’s the evidence? Because you can find ample evidence on social media on the Ukraine side of the bodies being buried....the horrific casualties going back. You don’t see that on the Russian side. And they try and say, “That’s cuz Russia is a totalitarian society. And as I increasingly try to remind at least Americans, on my side of the pond, we’ve got more political prisoners than Russia so spare me that sanctimonious bulls__t about “America the free” and “Russia the Dictatorship.” We’ve flip-flopped. It’s almost the exact opposite.

So what we face now is we have not seen since the start of the conflict on the 24th of February....we’ve not seen an armored unit of Ukrainian forces backed with infantry moving towards a particular objective and Russian troops running with their hands in the air in the opposite direction. Haven’t seen it! That to me is the tell. You know, all that Ukraine has at this point is they are hunkered down in their foxholes; they’ve got artillery they’re lobbing that; they’re shooting some missiles, but they have yet to organize an offensive. I know you’ve said it yourself....you keep hearing them saying that there is going to be a counter offensive and it you had a dollar for every time they have said that you would be a wealthy man.

But, we’re not seeing that so it is unfortunate that our military intelligence and our civilian intelligence have become so compromised that they are not able to sit down and actually tell the cold hard truth that Russia, in spite of going in with 200,000, maybe 250,000 against 600,000. That is even the reverse of conventional military strategy which says that if you’re an offensive force attacking a defensive force you want an at least 3 to 1 advantage....3 to 1. And in this case the Russians....they go with a 1 to 3 advantage; I mean it is remarkable! When the history of this is written what Russia has accomplished in these last 4 months I think it will be something that future war schools will teach because nobody in history has done this!

https://www.imetatronink.com/2022/07/the-united-states-could-not-win-and.html

Friday, July 8, 2022
The United States Could Not Win and Will Not Fight a War Against Russia
(Adapted from a Twitter thread posted July 1, 2022)

I continue to be convinced the US/NATO could never win and will never fight a war against Russia in eastern Europe – unless the #EmpireAtAllCosts death cult somehow seizes the reins of power, in which case, it will become the biggest catastrophe in US military history, and very possibly result in a civilization-ending nuclear war.

For me, one of the most intriguing aspects of the unprecedented levels of propaganda beclouding the ongoing Ukraine War are the incessant claims, from the very beginning, of the alleged strategic, tactical, and logistical ineptitude of the Russian military.

The theme of the bumbling Russians was clearly preconceived and coordinated, and commenced in earnest within the first 24 hours of hostilities. CIA/MI6 fronts like Oryx, Bellingcat, and the war-mongering Kagan family propaganda mill The Institute for the Study of War have pumped out this narrative so relentlessly that it has now been almost universally enshrined as “received wisdom” in the western state-controlled corporate media and among large numbers of clueless, arms industry-compromised former generals – even to the point of entering into the body of assumptions embraced by many “experts” who I expected to be more discerning.

It has given rise to countless evidence-free myths, from the #FakeNews downing of two IL-76 jumbo transports packed with Russian paratroopers, to the persistent meme of thousands of Russian tanks and armored vehicles allegedly abandoned for mechanical breakdown, lack of fuel, or other logistical failures.

One of the more inexplicable narratives included in this disinformation package has been the allegation that Russian troops are poorly trained conscripts who are thrown into the meat grinder with antique weapons, little ammo, and so little food they are literally starving.

These tall tales are then woven back into the main strand of the narrative: the Russian army is a disorganized mob of demoralized “orcs” whose only real talent is plundering household appliances, raping young women, and randomly gunning down old folks on the streets.

Attached to this constant refrain are repeated comparisons to the allegedly incomparable professionalism, organization, training, and weaponry of US/NATO forces. The implication is that any undersized company of exceptional American soldiers would be more than a match for an entire oversized battalion of incompetent Russians.

I’ve concluded this unrelenting narrative must have as its aim the persuasion of the general public and policy-makers in NATO countries that western militaries are so vastly superior to their Russian counterparts that no one should entertain reservations about making war against them.

Connected to this theme is a recurring baseless assertion that the Russian nuclear arsenal is in a state of total disrepair, and that, were nuclear war enjoined, very few Russian missiles would even make it out of their silos, let alone fly long enough and straight enough to then be summarily dispatched by the fictional impenetrable American missile defense shield.

In other words, we have virtually nothing to fear from the bumbling Russians – that “gas-station masquerading as a country” – as the late Fighter Ace in Reverse John McCain was fond of saying.

And thus we continue to hear calls for immediate NATO intervention into the war; the establishment of a “no-fly zone” over Ukraine, and “boots on the ground” to teach the amateurish third-world Russian army a lesson it will not soon forget.

Never mind the numerous reports from western mercenaries and foreign legion volunteers who managed to escape back to their home countries after very brief and terrifying “tours of duty” in Ukraine, all of whom relate similar accounts.

They talk about encountering overwhelming firepower for the first time in their military careers, and they soberly warn anyone else thinking of embarking on a “safari” to kill Russians that it was “nothing like Iraq” and they feel very lucky to have made it out alive – often without ever firing their weapon, nor having even seen a Russian soldier.

Never mind also the fact that, to my knowledge, there are few if any conscripts among the Russian forces fighting in Ukraine, and few if any reports in Russian independent media sources of demoralized, under-supplied Russian battalions in any theater of the war.

Quite to the contrary, every indication I have seen suggests that Russian morale is sky high, both among the soldiers doing the fighting and the Russian public at home. To be sure, there have been Russian casualties – they are, after all, going up against what was, on February 24, 2022, the largest and best-armed land force on the European continent (outside of Russia).

Best estimates are ~5000 Russian Federation KIAs (killed in action) plus ~8000 of their DPR / LPR (Donetsk People’s Republic / Lugansk People’s Republic) allies, or ~13,000 KIA in total.

These numbers pale in comparison to the western propaganda “think tank” fantasies of ~100k total Russian casualties, including 35k – 50k KIAs, which, were it true, would be unmistakably reflected both in the morale of the army itself and the public at home – and it clearly is not.

Nor is any of this manufactured narrative consistent with the desperate and incessant Ukrainian appeals for massive replenishment of lost heavy weaponry, air-defense systems, and ammunition, as well as the total mobilization of poorly trained and equipped “territorial guard” troops and expansion of the conscript window to include boys, old men, and now even women.

On the other side, Russian troops are regularly rotated off the battlefield, rested and refitted, then returned to the front. Russia has deployed ~15% of its total professional force, has not ordered a general mobilization, and has approximately the same number of soldiers in the theater that they started with (175k – 200k).

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