Posted on 08/10/2023 4:36:48 PM PDT by Mariner
There is growing alarm about the pace and prospects of Ukraine’s counteroffensive, with few signs of progress in recent weeks and Russian lines holding strong.
Those concerns picked up steam in the past week after Ukraine launched a second push in the southern Zaporizhzhia region and has still come up mostly empty in the eyes of Western allies.
U.S. officials told CNN on Tuesday that significant progress was “highly unlikely,” especially with fall and winter fast approaching. And another U.S. official told NBC News, “There is a frustration that they have not used more of the combat power that they have.”
The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft said in a “Time” magazine piece that Ukrainian forces are outmanned and outgunned and need a “Plan B,” which would include scaling back to focus on defense.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), a former football coach, gave voice to the growing skepticism, comparing Ukraine to “a junior high team playing a college team” in an interview with Fox News this week, adding: “They can’t win.”
Despite the sobering assessments U.S. officials are making anonymously in the media, the Biden administration maintains that Ukraine will recapture Russian-occupied territory and ultimately triumph.
The narrative has frustrated Ukraine, which continues to urge patience as it chips away at Russian fortifications — including thousands of landmines — and searches for weak spots along the frontlines.
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Looks like the Hill and Yahoo have now become Putin-Puffers ;-)
aka “Downfall”. That and “Das Boot” are excellent.
Everyone who does not agree with the Biden Worshipers on Ukraine is a Putin Puffer. According to the Biden Worshipers.
Thanks! I’ve seen Das Boot, but not the other film. I will definitely watch it.
Based on the memoirs of hitler’s secretary Traudl Junge. She is interviewed at the beginning and end of the film.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363163/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_doenfall
There will be no ceasefire. Ukraine needs to unconditionally surrender. The Russians aren’t going to be burned by false agreements like they were with Minsk Agreement.
Looks like Gomer Pyle in drag.
She was late to post her usual tripe this evening. Perhaps the cherry-picking of the day's action is getting more difficult, for some reason.
High danger of the neocons attempting to widen the war to an all-out conflict, NATO versus Russia, with China likely siding with Russia.
They wanted a death match with Putin. They got it.
They’re losing and facing the death penalty themselves.
The organization called NATO has two stark choices: Be fractured and destroyed by internal divisions about going to war with Russia and ultimately China (very likely), or be fractured and destroyed by losing a war against Russia and China.
Ummm, well, kinda,
Zelensky is the ‘creation’ of Nuland and the NATO fat cats.
-fJRoberts-
Bay of pigsII
That thing is some sorry shit
Her and her pals have been quiet lately. They are probably at Uke Army headquarters right now getting a new propaganda strategy.
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