Next Up: Crimea.
Posted on 11/21/2022 8:24:15 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Russia's leading war hawks rallied behind the humiliating decision for Moscow's forces to retreat from the Ukrainian city of Kherson this month, but the commander who argued in favour of the move is now under growing pressure to prove it was worth it.
Sergei Surovikin, nicknamed "General Armageddon" by the Russian media for his reputed ruthlessness, on Nov. 9 recommended Moscow's forces quit Kherson and the west bank of the River Dnipro where they were dangerously exposed.
Surovikin, a 56-year-old veteran of wars in Chechnya and Syria who has been decorated by President Vladimir Putin, argued the withdrawal, completed two days later, would allow Moscow to save equipment and redeploy forces there - estimated by the United States at 30,000-strong - to offensives elsewhere.
Some of those troops have since been moved from southern to eastern Ukraine, where fierce fighting is raging, and the Hero of Russia recipient is under pressure on the cusp of winter to show his bet was the right one.
"We await your brilliant results and pray for you, I pray for you every day," Margarita Simonyan, the hawkish editor-in-chief of RT TV and one of the main public proponents of the war, told Surovikin in a TV broadcast last week.
Simonyan urged Surovikin, a hulking shaven-headed figure who has been shown on TV speaking in clipped Russian military language, to ignore "nonsense" from critics, a reference to influential military bloggers unhappy about his retreat.
One of those bloggers, Vladlen Tatarsky, who has more than half a million followers on the Telegram messaging service, had fumed over Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's post-retreat visit to Kherson, questioning why Moscow had not killed him.
"What are we spilling our blood for? Why can Zelenskiy calmly come to Kherson?" Tatarsky asked in a video post.
(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.com ...
Next Up: Crimea.
ZelenskyyIdiot Under Pressure to Deliver on Battlefield After Retreat
There, fixed/corrected.
Not calling it, but I can foresee Zaluzhnyi taking over in place of ZelenskyyIdiot here in the near future.
This happened.
Being “liberated” in Kherson is pretty fun
https://twitter.com/TheHumanFund5/status/1594425595118596097
The war is entering a new phase and kherson was a hard to defend area requiring resources better applied to the final offensive. This article is deep state propaganda. Wake me up when Ukraine controls any air space. Any.
Scott Ritter Caught in ANOTHER Sex Sting
A former chief United Nations weapons inspector is accused of contacting what he thought was a 15-year-old girl in an Internet chat room, engaging in a sexual conversation and showing himself masturbating on a Web camera. Scott Ritter of Delmar, N.Y., who served as chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991-98
Ritter was charged in a June 2001 Internet sex sting in New York, but that case was dismissed. He had been charged with attempted child endangerment after arranging in an online chatroom to meet what he thought was a 16-year-old girl at a Burger King restaurant. The girl turned out to be an undercover policewoman.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/scott-ritter-caught-in-another-sex-sting
Yo, marcus, a British TV presenter solved all the world’s problems in one moment....I am sure we could solve the Ukraine/Russia war/conflict in like manner?
https://twitter.com/Nikolai11449196/status/1593885106653077504
“Margarita Simonyan, the hawkish editor-in-chief of RT TV and one of the main public proponents of the war”
She’s also the employer of Douglas Macgregor and Scott Ritter.
How ironic it is that the outline of the part of Ukraine that Russia still controls bears a remarkable likeness to the outline of Vietnam.
Bless those American and other nationality ex-soldiers going over to Ukraine to fight for and with the DPR and LPR militias, etc.!!!
‘Russell “Texas” Bentley Sweet Home Novorossiya English Version’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkxSxUb5BHE
yesterday, lots of videos
Macgregor is a loon. I wonder if he attended Hunter Biden’s birthday party, just like Tucker Carlson did?
Yeah, I am having my doubts about Tucker Carlson too.
Putard say: “Looks like WINNING!”
Yep. Russias second “vietnam”
“Yeah, I am having my doubts about Tucker Carlson too.”
Aw shucks, no doubt because Tucker called it straight on Ukraine, multiple of times, and you, as with your cohorts, got butthurt.
Tucker Carlson is controlled opposition for the Murdochs.
Why hasn’t President Trump been on Tucker Carlson’s show in almost 2 years?
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