Posted on 08/11/2023 3:25:07 PM PDT by delta7
Western media have finally change course. They are now admitting that the much promoted Ukrainian counter-offensive has failed. In fact, the acknowledge that it never had a chance to win in the first place.
The Hill, the Washington Post and CNN now agree that the Ukrainian army will never achieve its aims.
That makes it difficult for the Biden administration to get Congress approval for $24 billion in additional 'aid' to Ukraine. It does not make sense to pay for a cause that is evidently lost.
The Polish President Duda has also acknowledged that the counter-offensive has failed. Relations between Warsaw and Kiev have gotten worse and Polish interests will not allow for more support or active intervention.
Nothing has come from the 'peace conference' which Saudi Arabia arranged on Ukraine's behalf.
Despite the onslaught of bad news the Ukrainian army is still trying to take Russian positions in the south and east of Ukraine. But it simply does not have enough in men and material to break through the lines.
Even if they would manage to get a local breakthrough there are not enough reserves to push for the necessary follow up. Just one of the NATO trained brigades has still been held back. All others have been mauled in their various deployment zones.
In the northeast around Kupyansk the Russians have started their own offensive which has the Ukrainians on the run. Ukraine has ordered the evacuation of the area:
A mandatory evacuation has been ordered for the Ukrainian city of Kupyansk and its surrounding areas, as Russia intensified shelling of Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region and claimed to have captured Ukrainian positions near the city on Thursday. But Kupyansk is a Russian city and people refuse to leave.
The Russian campaign is slowly speeding up. As the Ukrainian Strana.news reports (machine translation):
Also in Ukraine, it is recorded that from Kupyansk to Bakhmut, Russia has increased the number of attacks. "Over the past month, the total number of attacks in the Kupyansk, Limansky and Bakhmut directions has grown significantly. In July, during the week there were 6-6.5 thousand attacks, during the last week-9 thousand attacks, " - said the representative of the National Guard Ruslan Muzychuk.
According to him, the Russian Federation does not experience "shell hunger".
Aviation is also actively used, and over the past few weeks, more than 50 air attacks have been taking place every day, and sometimes more than 80.
That is bad news for the Ukrainian side which lacks the reserves to counter the Russian onslaught. There are also less weapons coming in from the West. F-16 fighter jets will be delayed for another nine months due to training issues. Tanks and other material are in short supply.
Strana also report of an interview with a knowledgeable Ukrainian soldier (machine translation):
Cont. reading: Ukraine SitRep: The End Of The Counteroffensive
As I stated long ago:
Ukraine 1991-2023 RIP. Amen.
Senile Joe must now prepare for “ Zelensky’s Revenge”, box loads of corruption documents- but that is just “rumor”….but after senile Joe’s Afghanistan debacle, no surprise….carry on war cheerleaders.
We’ll back to the old drawing board
This is known as a Costanza counteroffensive…
Anybody seen the Ruzzian gazzlight lady?
It’s just a scratch.
No gazzlight today?
They just barred every male over 16 from leaving Ukraine. Guess who’s next to be conscripted.
“Ukraine SitRep: The End Of The Counteroffensive”
A lot of us are surprised that Russia let them achieve 1% of their objectives...but perhaps they were being generous?
Since the counter offensive failed, will all those in Washington and Kiev return all the bribes and kickbacks?
The Democrats don’t care how many Ukrainians die to cover up Democrat crimes in Ukraine.
It is almost as if there are people making money immersed in making "content" this way and / or that way with YouTube picking up 45 percent of everyone's analysis. And other people making money emptying the arsenals of Europe into a desperate attempt to "proxy win" a real shooting war by arming a side with information salvos. And other people are making money through the war materiel businesses, from new to used and refurbished and beyond. And let us not forget fund raising, raised to new and exalted heights as debtor nations take on more debt to prove they are not functionally bankrupt - yet. And then there's the hopefully lucrative snapping up a land for some future after the shooting stops, if the shooting stops, when the shooting stops. As to the lowly, expendable little men thrown into the front, in the immortal words of Biden's Undersecretary of State, "F*ck Europe." All of it. All of them, because they will not be forgotten, but the world eve knew their names anyway. And if things don't work out so well, retire and expect the taxpayers to fund nice digs, fine dining and the good life for the scum that has stirred chaos into a frenzy. Amen.
$200B later they tell us it was doomed from the get go.
Let me ask Putin’s Freeper puppets, which country will you support his invasion of next?
Welp, time to find another war, one Biden’s woke military can win, like maybe against some 3d world shitthole that needs “ democracy”
Look out Niger…here we come
Look over there, not here!
Ontario and Quebec.
Let me ask Putin’s Freeper puppets, which country will you support his invasion of next?
WTF does that mean numb-nuts?
Are you of the belief that America-First Patriots should give two phucks about two 2nd world countries?
Nope. Not our fight. Let ‘em have at it with nobody’s help.
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