"Major collapse of Ukraine resistance". Report: Once the Donbass region is completely secured, Putin will make a peace offer on his terms. If that offer is rejected, "All Hell Will Break Loose". It's about to get even more interesting.
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"Major collapse of Ukraine resistance". Report: Once the Donbass region is completely secured, Putin will make a peace offer on his terms. If that offer is rejected, "All Hell Will Break Loose". It's about to get even more interesting.
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One of Bammy's Perfumed Princes at the Pentagon.
One of the NeverTrump seditionists in the US Armed Forces.
You see a lot of them, if you start looking around.
Karl - did you see that ScrewBloob suspended Alex Christoforou for a week? They're after him...
Looking at the map, Russia taking Siversk will close off a Ukrainian defensive salient and consolidating Russian lines in the East. In the West, Russia will bypass to the North of Odessa and connect up with troops in eastern Moldova, cutting off the southwest chunk of Ukraine including the port at Odessa.
So, who is he? You laud him yet give no information as to who he is and what his source is.
Agreed, Mercouris is top notch, perhaps the most knowledgeable and correct in his assessments. He has correctly forecast and accurately called outcomes since Feb, the Biden war cheerleaders absolutely go bonkers when they listen to him.
I’m amused at how unserious the Neocon/Neolib enablers are. If that is truly Hodges view, I know more about the war than he does, and so does anyone else who follows independent and Russian sources (which have proven far more reliable than Ukrainian sources). Somehow, though, I think he knows the truth and is not telling it for some purpose or other. Alexander Mercouris, whom you cite, is actually passing on what Vucic, the President of Serbia, recently said. Vucic has good intel and has a lot at stake.
Why anyone who claims a senior military background would push nonsense like “the Russians are exhausted” is baffling. The heavy lifting for the Russians has been done by their heavy weapons, especially their artillery. The tanks and infantry mainly go in and clean up after the UFA positions are shattered. The best UFA soldiers are mostly dead or badly wounded now. What the UFA has remaining is, for the most part, territorial units and conscripts, who, through no fault of their own, are no match for the Russians.
If anyone is exhausted, it’s the UFA in Donetsk/Lugansk. They have been beaten at every turn and have had to constantly retreat through country paths to avoid being encircled, all the while having to endure a brutal heavy weapons bombardment every single day. The tempo of the Russian advance is increasing now because the UFA is exhausted and beaten in Donetsk. The battle for Seversk is essentially over, as is the battle for Soledar. No one thought it would happen this quickly. The Russians are also closing in on Bakhmut. It may well be that the entire UFA defensive line is collapsing. We will see.
Among the “Rah! Rah!” war crowd here, what I see are minds stuck in the 80s that are easily influenced by the huge psyops campaign that the Biden administration has waged (along with NATO, especially the UK, the Neocons/Neolibs, and the other usual suspects). They don’t know anything about Russia as it is. Instead, they project the old Soviet Union onto Russia, it seems because it is easier than learning something new and is emotionally satisfying. As a result, they fail to see that in MORE THAN A FEW respects Russia is more in line with the values here on FR than our own government. Some also think that the Russians are no more technologically adept than the Soviets. That kind of hubris born of ignorance is toxic. It enables corrupt elements in our own government; it encourages the pointless destruction of the brave men of the UFA (excluding the Neo-Nazis, who need to be killed); and, it completely misunderstands the nature and origins of the conflict, as well as contributing to misunderstanding the geopolitical situation the US actually is in.
If Vucic is right, the EU and NATO will be shattered, the WEF will be crippled, if not made irrelevant, and perhaps the Biden administration will be so discredited that no amount of voter fraud and leftist lying will be able to stop a gigantic red wave. The “pro-Ukraine” commenters here (who don’t realize they are actually helping the administration, Neocons, WEF, etc.) need to realize that this country is on the edge of a totalitarian transformation and that they are encouraging the wrong side.
Very interesting and informative contrarian view to the classic FR pro-uke view. I am only halfway through viewing but stopping temporarily to thank you for posting.
I suspect that if the Russians take Poltava, Ukraine thereafter might cease to exist as a political entity.
Bombing the Kerch Strait bridge still seems possible but now it seems to be a side show.
Can you imagine what Alexander would say about, Speedy? “If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you!”