Posted on 07/18/2023 1:03:28 PM PDT by Mariner
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ukraine's counter-offensive against Russia is far from a failure, but the fight ahead will be long and bloody, the top U.S. general said on Tuesday, even as casualties on both sides mount and the front lines have moved only incrementally.
The United States and other allies have spent months building Ukraine a "mountain of steel" of weaponry and training Ukrainian forces in combined arms techniques to help Kyiv pierce formidable Russian defenses during its counter-offensive.
Asked whether the counter-offensive was a failure, at least so far, General Mark Milley, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said: "It is far from a failure. I think that it's way too early to make that kind of call.
"I think there's a lot of fighting left to go and I'll stay with what we said before: This is going to be long. It's going be hard. It's going to be bloody," Milley told reporters.
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Milley said various war games had predicted certain levels of Ukrainian advances, but conflict on paper was different from the reality of facing complex minefields, barbed wire and Russian trenches.
"Real war is unpredictable. It's filled with fear, fog and friction," Milley said
Russia's defense ministry said its forces had advanced 2 km (1.2 miles) in the vicinity of Kupiansk, a frontline railway hub recaptured by Ukraine in an offensive last year. Kyiv acknowledged a "complicated" situation in the area. Reuters could not independently verify the situation.
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This week it's "It is far from a failure. I think that it's way too early to make that kind of call."
Ukraine will regret listening to these clowns in DC.
How are our ammo stockpiles?
How’s recruiting going?
Are the non white male troops as competent?
F-35 everything we thought it could be?
USN grounds and crash ships, and subs are in for repairs.
Just wait for the USAF Negro up next. Makes Milley look competent.
“I think there’s a lot of fighting left to go and I’ll stay with what we said before: This is going to be long. It’s going be hard. It’s going to be bloody,” Milley told reporters.
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LOTS OF MEAT to be ground.
LOTS OF MONEY to be made.
How’s your pension, folks?
Ukrainian pensions are doing just fine… thanks to the GULLIBILITY OF AMERICAN TAXPAYERS.
General Mark Milley, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is a complete failure and I know it’s not too early to make that judgement.
As long as the money and arms keeps flowing to Ukraine, they will keep sending troops to be blown up. As I thought years ago, the US doesn’t have enough arms to engage the enemy in a war of attrition. As it is, it will take us years to rearm.
Biden and the Globalists are trying to lead us into another Viet Nam.
Commit any American servicemen and we have arrived.
“front lines have moved only incrementally”
How many innocent lives are lost on both sides for incremental shifting lines?
This conflict represents a battle between affluent individuals and influential corporations.
Maybe the silver lining in all of this is that our stockpiles are so low and our military so understaffed and incompetent that they would never even dare think of starting a war with russia
Aye that.
Thoroughly Modern Milley has a plan to parachute rainbowers into Russia to carry out a guerrilla mission.
Forward he cried from the rear
And the front rank died
And the General sat
And the lines on the map
Moved from side to side
It’s 5 times worse than a failure. It’s a catastrophe.
Foptard no doubt views George Custer as the all-time winner....
And profitable.
is the ukraine
the Appalachia of europe
hatfield vs Mccoy
ww3
We’re out of ammo.
America being weak and helpless against China, Iran, Russia, and North Korea is not a “silver lining”.
Arm chair general will fight down to the last Ukrainian child.
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