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NATO-trained units will serve as tip of spear in Ukraine’s counteroffensive
The Washington Post ^ | June 4, 2023 | Isabelle Khurshudyan and Kamila Hrabchuk

Posted on 06/04/2023 3:56:22 AM PDT by Timber Rattler

When Ukraine’s long-awaited counteroffensive finally begins, the fight will be led by brigades armed not only with Western weapons but also Western know-how, gleaned from months of training aimed at transforming Ukraine’s military into a modern force skilled in NATO’s most advanced warfare tactics.

As other Ukrainian units were fighting to expel the Russian occupiers from the country’s east and south, the brand-new 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade was preparing for the next phase of war from a classroom at a NATO base in Germany.

The brigade’s leadership trained with computers that simulated situations they might face in real life. Deputy commander Maj. Ivan Shalamaha and others planned their assaults and then let the program show them the results — how their Russian enemies might respond, where they could make a breakthrough and where they would suffer losses.

“You understand the overall picture, how it works,” Shalamaha said. “You understand where and what your shortcomings were. And we pay attention to what we failed to do during this simulation.”

Now the war games are over. The 47th brigade and other assault units have been armed with Western weapons, including Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, and relocated to a secret location closer to the front line. During a recent visit by Washington Post journalists, the soldiers were waiting for the order to charge ahead to retake a large swath of Ukrainian territory and tip the war back in Kyiv’s favor.

The counteroffensive will be the biggest test yet of the U.S.-led strategy of giving the Ukrainians weapons and training to fight like an American army might — but on their own.

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To: Timber Rattler

You’ve posted so much nonsense propaganda supporting the child molesters and money laundering operation out of Ukraine this story is just silly. You’ve already claimed many times that Russia was defeated and Ukraine had won.


81 posted on 06/04/2023 6:21:34 AM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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To: csvset
Well , funding the Taliban, how did that work out ?

Right, so our complaint was the Afghanis wouldn't fight, and now that the Ukrainians are willing to fight, you don't want to give them weapons. Okay

82 posted on 06/04/2023 6:22:53 AM PDT by tlozo ( Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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To: tlozo
And yet the Taliban remain, stronger than ever , even after a 20 year failed Nato war.

The order of the day must be , “Reagan”, lol. Try Washington’s fair well speech, Eurotramp.

83 posted on 06/04/2023 6:25:05 AM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: tlozo

Screw these Putin JackBoot lickers. There is bipartisan support for funding Ukraine with weapons.

These trolls are nothing but weak kneed Appeasers, with a false promise of Peace in our Time.

Every month that goes by that Russia can’t win, is a humiliation to Putin and his failed Empire.


84 posted on 06/04/2023 6:29:29 AM PDT by rbmillerjr
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To: AndyJackson

Japan isn’t threatening to land in Lingayen gulf at the moment. Its not got an insane militaristic clique running the place.

Russia has been attacking all along the front from Kreminna to Vuhledar all winter and spring. And getting nowhere, save at Bakhmut. In the meantime it’s been losing materiel and munitions. Based on recent events, it hasn’t got a capability for mobile warfare anymore - the ability to break through and exploit deep into the enemy rear.

In the meantime Ukraine has been building a mobile reserve and receiving a great deal of aid of all kinds. Unlike Russia, Ukraine hasn’t far to go to win. The key is Melitopol. When they take that everything west of the Kerch bridge will be isolated and out of supply. It will be the Kherson bridgehead all over again. And the Kerch bridge is just waiting on the inevitable missile.

To prevent that Russia will need to be able to counterattack effectively, and they can’t - see above re maneuver warfare.


85 posted on 06/04/2023 6:29:44 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: buwaya
That's why the Russians are loosing, why the Ukrainians are victorious and why we need to rebuild their army for a counteroffinsive to dislodge the throughly trounced and defeated Russian Army. Got it. You left out the part about we also need to send F16s because we need to defeat all the aircraft lobbing glide bombs and the cruise missiles that the Russians long ago ran out of and can't fly through the vastly supperior Ukrainian air defenses. And we all know how utterly poor Russian air defenses are so they will be a pushover as soon as we get this New Model NATO Ukie Army.

You know what? Even Gen Milley has toned down his rhetoric and admitted thing aren't going as well as they might.

But I will bet my fortune country and future on your penetrating understanding of military and geopolitical affairs.

86 posted on 06/04/2023 6:30:24 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: tlozo
Poor Euroramp. It’s the same Aholes, NATO/CIA/Bankers/MIC that ran the Afghan fiasco that are running this debacle

See, Eurotramp, it doesn’t matter who is fighting where. As long as the money flows, anything goes.

Hell, the NATO/CIA fags don’t care if they win.

87 posted on 06/04/2023 6:34:14 AM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: buwaya
Mearshimer ignores military factors beyond numbers of guns and shells. If that was a dispositive factor France would have won in 1940.

Yes, number of guns and shells doesn't matter if you can't bring them to bear on an enemy that is outmaneuvering you. But the Ukies aren't maneuvering. The reason they got slaughtered in Bakhmut is because they dug in in Bakhmut making them the target of the vast overmatch in artillery.

This was the NATO strategy for Ukraine. We misunderestimated Russia's ability to blow up half a continent conventionally. We misunderestimated wrong and Russia reduced Bakhmut to rubble as everyone admits.

88 posted on 06/04/2023 6:34:18 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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Whatever side you stand on in this issue, the fact of the matter is we are broke and cannot continue to fund this nonsense.


89 posted on 06/04/2023 6:36:27 AM PDT by mouse1
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To: Timber Rattler

If our leaders send our kids over there they will find their enemy is not Russia.
It’s bad enough they’re printing enough money to bankrupt us and sending it over there just to cover up their criminal activities.


90 posted on 06/04/2023 6:44:11 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Bounced2X

Please don’t hesitate to cough up more information everybody should know.

It was first “coughed up” by the Ukrainians themselves.


91 posted on 06/04/2023 6:45:04 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: AndyJackson

You are still arguing rhetorically. Be substantial, and analytical. That is the honest way to argue.

The Russians aren’t defeated YET.
All I’m saying is that the odds are good that the Ukrainians can soon put them in a hopeless position. The map favors that.

The Ukrainian air defense system was never “superior”, it was just good enough to keep the Russian Air Force mostly neutralized. The Ukrainian air defense has been running low on ammo, so western aid is necessary to keep the status quo.

The Russians obviously haven’t got enough cruise missiles to have a decisive strategic effect on Ukraine. They had to give up on the attacks on the electric system and railroads. If they had the missiles, or if the missiles were getting through more often, they would have kept it up.

F16s are necessary to backfill the Ukrainian AF. They are low on planes and there aren’t enough ex-Soviet aircraft around in Europe for that.

Wars use up materiel. It has to come from somewhere.


92 posted on 06/04/2023 6:46:10 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: csvset
NATO/CIA/Bankers/MIC that ran the Afghan fiasco that are running this debacle

Right, it was a problem for us that the Afghan's were unwilling to fight, but now that the Ukrainians have clearly shown they are willing to fight, you are against arming them. Makes sense

93 posted on 06/04/2023 6:51:49 AM PDT by tlozo ( Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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To: csvset

Please use common courtesy when posting. Do not post personal attacks, no name calling, no insults. Do not badger or harass other posters. Do not carry grudges from one thread to another. If someone says stop, STOP. Avoid flame wars. If you find yourself in one, disengage immediately and move on.

Discuss the issues all you wish, but do not make it personal.

64 posted on 6/3/2023, 7:48:57 PM by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)


94 posted on 06/04/2023 6:52:29 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: redfreedom

Depopulating [killing people] is one of the goals of the Neo Cons, Globalists, Biden Worshipers, Soros Worshipers. One of their goals is to bet the World population down to so many people. This [Ukraine war] and Covid 19 is/was a start.


95 posted on 06/04/2023 6:52:56 AM PDT by sport
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To: mouse1
Whatever side you stand on in this issue, the fact of the matter is we are broke and cannot continue to fund this nonsense.

Yup, 100 billion sent to Ukraine out of the total US budget of 6.6 Trillion bankrupted us. Okay

96 posted on 06/04/2023 6:55:06 AM PDT by tlozo ( Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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To: Timber Rattler
The counteroffensive will be the biggest test yet of the U.S.-led strategy of giving the Ukrainians weapons and training to fight like an American army might....

Mr. Timber, in case you missed it, the test is over, and we failed!

The US/NATO has had 8 years to train and equip the Ukes.

That's worked out really well with the Ruskies now controlling 20% of former Uke territory and advancing every day.

I'm hoping you've found yourself another gig and will disappear from here real soon!


97 posted on 06/04/2023 6:55:20 AM PDT by icclearly
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To: AndyJackson

The Ukies arent maneuvering, but they are interdicting. They are more and more able to do that. WWI style gun lines and vast ammo dumps are vulnerable to things like HIMARS.

The Russians can’t keep up their bombardments if they can’t concentrate their assets closer than 15km from the front, and right now it seems that their ammo dumps are stuck 40-50km away. They can’t feed their guns very fast. When the Ukes get the GLSDB it’s going to get much worse.

Russia is running low on artillery and ammo besides.


98 posted on 06/04/2023 6:55:29 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: icclearly

The Ukes began getting weapons from the US only in 2018, and those were just some Javelins. Ordered by Trump btw.

And after that zero, until March 2022.

“The US/NATO has had 8 years to train and equip the Ukes.”

So this is false.


99 posted on 06/04/2023 6:58:29 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: tlozo

Yup, 100 billion sent to Ukraine out of the total US budget of 6.6 Trillion bankrupted us. Okay

Yup It’s just one example of the money wasted. Now if we could only look at the other 6.6 trillion.


100 posted on 06/04/2023 7:00:15 AM PDT by mouse1
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