Posted on 06/30/2023 3:43:13 PM PDT by Mariner
kraine has fended off Russia's advances for more than 16 months, and it's now several weeks into its long-awaited counteroffensive. The pace is grinding in some sectors of the front, but Kyiv's top general says he doesn't want to hear complaints it's going too slow.
Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine's Armed Forces, told the Washington Post that it "pisses" him off to hear commentary that his counteroffensive operations are moving slower than anticipated. Kyiv's military is currently undergoing several offensive maneuvers along the front lines in the eastern and southern regions and has made small — but, at times, costly — territorial gains in the process.
Liberating Russian-occupied land means clearing obstacles fortifications, including anti-tank ditches, "dragon's teeth" anti-vehicle barricades, minefields, and trench labyrinths and breaking through Moscow's layered defensive lines. Breaching these many obstacles are dangerous and painstaking operations, especially since Ukraine doesn't appear to have all the capabilities that other militaries executing this kind of mission would normally employ.
"This is not a show," Zaluzhnyi said in the recent interview with the Post, which was published on Friday. "It's not a show the whole world is watching and betting on or anything. Every day, every meter is given by blood."
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The Korean War ended up in a stalemate. We might see the same thing here. Putin will call for another mobilization if he needs more troops to fortify the front in Ukraine.
For the Ukrainian Partisans, Neocons and Democrats:
Who you gonna believe? Your local Free Republic Realists, or CJCS Mark Milley, Victoria Nuland and Anthony Blinken?
Incomprehensible, or silly.
Or both.
American politicians pissing off the world one grieving mother at a time. This is a dumb way to kill all the Ukrainians.
I think it’ll be negotiating table once Russia finds the right building that houses incriminating info on our own warlords here in the US.
How much faith in Christ does Zelensky have? The Ukrainian Rainbow Unicorn Brigade. (OK, I’ll concede that the Ukes do have Nazis.) And on the other side you have a country that expels missionaries and makes life difficult for Christians that don’t follow the approved religious body.
I’ve still got my money down on Putin and his buddy Yevgeny Prigozhin. Not so sure about Gen. Surovikin’s long term help.
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My money has been on Russia’s General Patience and Colonel Resolve. They beat hands down the West’s best Generals, General Desperate and Colonel Confusion.
“Ukraine’s top general says the expected mission is ‘not feasible at all’ with just the weapons his army has now”
Short of giving them nukes (if they even still work), Ukraine has pretty much CLEANED OUT NATO of ground weapons, so he might want to get on the phone with China at this point.
“Elsewhere in the country, Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, ordered top military commanders to strengthen Ukraine’s northern border following the arrival in Belarus of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the mercenary leader who had led a brief mutiny in Russia.”
I guess we need to send some lawyers. We already sent all the others.
“On the southern front, Russia used an Iskander ballistic missile to attack a bridgehead established by Ukrainian troops on the south side of the Dnipro river, the Russian-installed governor of Kherson said.
Drone footage of the strike shared on social media showed a large explosion at the foot of the Antonov, with the governor claiming that as many as 30 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed in the blast.”
The bridgehead in Kherson is kaput.
And Russia is conducting offensive operations on four fronts.
You know absolutely dick.
But you sure are a know it all.
Funny thing but for all your noise it’s the Ukrainians who are on the offensive.
Isn’t that a funny little fact up against all your puffery.
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So, your General is lying?
Or, perhaps it’s YOU...still lying to yourself...
I do not follow a government or religlious body.
Christ told us we would be persecuted in his name.
It is a blessing.
Zelensky/Putin clowns both fighting for clown world.
Both worldly in their pursuits.
Surely they both wish to rule in hell.
Good on ‘em.
The Korean War ended up in a stalemate. We might see the same thing here
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Vlad’s stated goal from day one was liberating the ethnic Russian provinces that declared their Independence from Ukraine, Lughansk and Donetsk…..which is about 95 percent complete. As it sits, he has gained two more additional ethnic Russian provinces. It doesn’t look like a stalemate to me.
The West can not grasp Vlad is NOT giving up those territories, ever. The sooner the West realizes that, the quicker negotiations for Ukraine’s survival can start.
The Ukrainian people is defending itself with what it has.
What the alternative? To lay down all weapons and let the russian invasion progress all the way to Kiev?
That would be a terrible act of defeatism, it goes contrary to conservative values.
Crimea was under the control of the Ottoman Empire. Before that, the Mongols. So Crimea was not always Russian.
These people that hate Ukraine are not conservatives.
They are leftists.
Some are not even Americans.
And they are very dishonest they have a disgusting agenda.
Virtually all of their arguments are well honed leftism.
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