LOL
stay frustrated, Russian shills!
you still have many defeats to go ...
Posted on 03/07/2023 5:55:17 AM PST by canuck_conservative
Every hour, more towns and cities across the country were being captured by advancing Russian armies. CNN was showing Russian paratroopers, their elbows marked with white stripes, at the Antonov Airport just outside Kyiv.
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin declared the end of Ukraine as it was....
“One year later, Kyiv stands. And Ukraine stands. Democracy stands,” Biden said in Kyiv.
How did something that was supposed to be Putin’s several-day-long “special military operation” turn into a staggering defeat and a subsequent grinding war that the Kremlin’s propaganda now calls Russia’s “fight for survival”? ...
The first was its failure to destroy Ukraine’s military cohesion, social stability and system of governance in the decisive opening days of the invasion.
Next, from the very beginning, Russia completely failed to assess Ukraine as a nation; to understand its morale and its military’s readiness to fight. This understanding would be critical to execute the beheading strike needed for victory.
Furthermore, Russia did not have enough forces when it invaded Ukraine, a country the size of France. And these insufficient forces were dispersed into several axes of attack all along the Ukrainian border, which made them even weaker.
Finally, failure to maintain an adequate line of supply to Russia’s inadequate forces, dealt the deathblow to its hopes of reaching the capital....
As the defender, Ukraine was very limited in its capacity to mobilize its forces and go on military footing while avoiding a social and economic collapse due to the war threat.
But thanks to Western intelligence, the Ukrainian military was prepared and survived as a centralized system fully in control of itself. Ukraine saved its air force and air defense, and retained its full military power, even as the torrent of Russian missiles rained down on Ukraine’s defense infrastructure....
(Excerpt) Read more at kyivindependent.com ...
The Ukrainian military made good use of Russia’s startling overconfidence. Russia never expected to fight a full-scale war against a large and motivated adversary in hostile territory. From the very beginning, the Kremlin expected the Ukraine war to resemble a mixture between the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia and the 1979 attack that had dethroned and killed the president of Afghanistan in Kabul.
Russia’s bold plan was initially meant to quickly gain a foothold at the Hostomel Airport outside of Kyiv, then ensure the arrival of more elite rapid response forces. They would follow up with the quick seizure or assassination of Ukraine’s leadership in Kyiv, leaving the country in the throes of chaos. That’s why it was called a “special military operation.”
After the Russian paratroopers and special operations forces were done, the large, combined force concentrated along the Ukrainian border was to complete the plan — to overrun and occupy the disorganized nation, facing little to no fight from a demoralized Ukrainian military.
That’s why we now have stories of Russian combat formations having their parade uniforms packed, ready for triumphant marches in downtown Kyiv. We have stories of Russia’s Rosgvardia militarized police units carrying basically nothing but sticks and shields to beat protesters.
But the quick jump at Hostomel completely failed due to totally unexpected organized resistance. In fact, this sudden failure undermined the whole Russian plan from the beginning.
Poor logistics and constant Ukrainian hit-and-run attacks deteriorated the situation. Ukrainian formations wiped out Russian fuel trucks headed for the convoys, dooming the Russian armored vehicles to run out of fuel and be abandoned, at Ukraine’s mercy.
As a result, according to United States intelligence, Russia lost well over 1,000 tanks and other military vehicles in its failed blitzkrieg in north Ukraine. That roughly corresponds to the tank arsenals of Britain, France, Germany and Italy combined...."
Yeah, that’s a really clever comment there.
Russia is fighting against the entire Military Industrial Complex of the West and is more than holding its own. What western governments say they provide the Ukraine and what they’re actually providing the Ukraine are vastly different. The West is going run out of Ukrainian cannon fodder before too long and then their only option is drafting citizens of the West that will not go over well.
—>> Cuck-conservative. Another foriegn mystery-meat troll - posting straight Uke propaganda.
Now! With Extra Marxism!
“Another foriegn mystery-meat troll - posting straight Uke propaganda.”
No kidding, comes to a conservative site just to BASH CONSERVATIVE!!!
Odd that both of you America loving conservatives seem to be write English at the level of foreigner using Google Translate.
The propaganda is getting deep.
No, not bash conservatives, but rather to bash war criminals that consider themselves American conservatives
The war criminal conservatives are segregated from the good conservatives
“Russia is fighting against the entire Military Industrial Complex of the West “
Yes, the F-16s, Apache helicopters, and Abrams tanks have really helped the Ukrainians.
Oh wait, we haven’t given them any. Instead of real help Biden has forced them to fight with 40 year old Soviet heirlooms.
Sorry clown but the Ukraine has admitted to 250,000 dead. Call to protect Biden’s honey hole.
I have theorized, unhappily, that this is why the last several Free Republic quarterly fundraisers have been going slower and slower and seem stalled. Discontent from veteran site watchers? Don’t know the answer here to this but gloomy. Isn’t it late in the first quarter to be where it is at now?
Lets be accurate. West has sent about 2% of its annual military spending to Ukraine. No jets, no cruise missiles, no ATACMS, no grey eagle/predator drones, few western tanks and few western IFV's. So its not exactly the "entire Military Industrial Complex of the West".
The West is going run out of Ukrainian cannon fodder before too long
Not even close. There is no lack of Ukrainian soldiers, but a lack of military heavy weapons. Ukraine has about 700,000 soldiers of which only 300,000 can fight on the front due to lack of heavy military weapons.
you know, if Russia had done this 8 years ago they would have overrun all of Ukraine in days.
But they didn’t seem to realize that Ukraine had had 8 years to prepare
“West has sent about 2% of its annual military spending to Ukraine.”
Try 10% to 20%, unless you have a link.
“your hostile frustration tells us that your invasion still isn’t succeeding!”
You guys posting articles claiming that Russia has lost this war simply puts us in STITCHES!!!
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