Russians are only advancing after heavy artillery bombardments that are completely devastating the towns.
Posted on 08/23/2022 7:09:26 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
Six months after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, signs are accumulating that the balance on the military and economic battlefields is slowly tilting the way of Kyiv and its Western backers. ... Some results of the war already seem settled. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attempt to rewrite the ending of the Cold War by restoring Moscow’s historic sphere of influence in Eastern Europe has failed. His war on Ukraine has instead united almost all of Europe against him, revivifying the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which is poised to add Sweden and Finland as new members.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
"Meanwhile, the EU remains on high alert about running out of energy this winter, though some say the risk of an outright natural-gas shortage is subsiding as countries buy up non-Russian gas and EU efforts to save energy and share supplies take effect."
"“We’re not forecasting gas shortages or electrical blackouts,” said James Huckstepp, European gas analyst at S&P Global Commodity Insights. But he said risks remain, including failure to complete new infrastructure in time, and the weather."
"Russia’s economic outlook is much worse than the West’s—although possibly less bad than predicted early this year, after Moscow stabilized the ruble and restored its oil exports. The International Monetary Fund now forecasts that Russian gross domestic product will contract 6% this year and shrink further for years to come."
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This whole thing is weird…
For decades, the two “super powers” of the world were the USA and ‘Russia/Soviet Union’…. Yet they can’t whip the Ukraine?
This seems akin to the entire US military being unable to invade Iowa successfully.
Good job listening to Greta there you idiots. Why are they taking advice from a teenager?
Try using your brain...if Russia wanted to annihilate Ukraine, it could.
I thought the war momentum had always been against Russia. Perhaps earlier reports were “fake, but accurate”.
They are not trying to “whip Ukraine”; they are laying claim to areas with Russian populations, so destroying those areas isn’t a viable outcome.
Their goal is the war ending with a larger Russia and a demilitarized Ukraine - which Ukraine agreed to when the USSR dissolved. It was a condition of independence, which is why they were so unprepared for this war - and why Russia reacted as it did to NATO membership.
FWIW, this was told to me by a proud Ukrainian.
Putin has created a strategic disaster for Russia. With this catastrophic invasion, he has shown the world, especially China, that Russia’s conventional military is not the juggernaut the world once feared. Can Russia defend their rich but underpopulated Far Eastern Pacific territories and Siberia? Does it not make more sense for Comrade Xi to attempt to seize these Asian lands than attempt a risky invasion across 90 miles of open ocean? Without nuclear weapons, Russia would be much smaller.
RuZZia tried to invade a country of 44 million with 150-190k troops. That was crazy.
RuZZia lost alot of their best troops and equipment in that folly.
In Desert Storm, allies had like 500k to liberate Kuwait - without planning to capture all of Iraq.
Victorious Ukrainian columns are confidently advancing West to the Dnepr, while routed and demoralized Russian stragglers are bolting in panic through Bakhmut and Peski.
“so destroying those areas isn’t a viable outcome”
Have you not been paying attention?
RuZZia HAS DESTROYED the eastern part of Ukraine that was supposedly pro-RuZZian.
Just look at Mariupol.
Something similar happened in Afghanistan with the US supplying stinger missiles to the Afghanis.
This report seems overly optimistic. European countries have stopped supplying arms to Ukraine and US support is tapering off. The vaunted Ukraine counteroffensive has as yet not occurred while the Russians appear to be launching a new successful offensive.
I'm not sure who or what to believe but the WSJ has lost a lot of credibility over the past few years even before this dodgy reporting on Ukraine.
All Ukraine has to do is wait for Putin to die, which he is sure to do given all the health problems we’ve been told he had, in fact I’m surprised he’s still alive. /sarcasm.
I refuse to believe either side in this war, daily we get articles posted on FR which try to convince people that both sides are about to lose or win.
One day we’ll know, and it won’t be hard to figure out who it was, right now it’s all speculation unless you are actually there and know firsthand what’s happening.
This seems akin to the entire US military being unable to invade Iowa successfully.“
Which is why l don’t believe the war is “tilting” toward Ukraine.
Russians are only advancing after heavy artillery bombardments that are completely devastating the towns.
Accepted military doctrine says that an attacker should have a 3-1 advantage over a defending force.
The Ukrainians had a 3-1 advantage over the attacking Russians & the Luhansk/Donetsk militias.
I'd say that the Western militaries have some doctrinal revisions to attend to.
RuZZians are dying by the thousands every month.
Celebrate, sing and dance!
IMHO, Russia thought a blitzkrieg to Kiev would work.
Not only did they not have Germany’s equipment and precision…Xi totally screwed Putin by asking him to wait until the Chinese Olympics were done. They then got bogged down by “General Mud” (look it up).
Fact. Putin's invasion of Ukraine is dragging into the sixth month.
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